First off, I’m glad to know you don’t bot! Welcome back! We need players like you. Things have changed a lot.
Where to begin I will have to leave to others with more current knowledge.
2012, CCP changed a lot of rules and the player numbers dropped from an ave of 50k to 20k, were lucky to be at 30k now.
Watch out for Trigs, a new race that can show up anytime if you don’t know what to look for and pop you.
C.O.D.E. who pop you if you fit wrong.
It’s “The Age of Chaos” while CCP tries to rebalance the game they screwed up. 