take it this way , the tutorial sucks , but you have to do it to even consider how to playing the game , you cant even realy do anything PVP like till you have about 2 mill skill points , make sure you have learning trained to make training go faster , selling the characters have training on ëbay makes good cash its what i do
currently have 3 characters , my main who is 32 mil skill points , and my hualer account who halls my shit , and my minier to mine and make me isk (in game cash)
i pick up 1 character each month from the forum that has around 8-15 mil skill points and sell it on ëbay for 200ish or more depending on how spec he is , you can make enough isk to pretty much pay for your game time cards which can make it a free game if your hardcore enough , plus the players decided on what goes on in the game not the devs