One of my friends played this game for many years and it looked amazing and loved the music when he was playing. I never started playing the game though. But now that i have a ton of extra time i have really been considering starting. Anyone have pointers or anything to say?

To start with I'd suggest starting the game via someone's buddy invite.

Here's mine: https://secure.eveonline.com/trial/?invc=47a5cfa4-098e-418c-a971-305a4a1e753a&action=buddy

If you use that link to subscribe and use one of the accepted payment methods I will get a plex or 30 days game time. For that I will give you 350mil, which is much more than half of the value of that reward (total value of reward is around 550mil).

join Brave Newbies Inc. and you can get in on capital ship kills on your first day