I don’t even actively play anymore. All I do is log in to claim my daily/event rewards, and then log out. In fact, CCP is making it very clear to me that they don’t want me to play anymore with the e-mails they send; e-mails that advertise new reward campaigns and store sales. There’s almost always some kind of special discount for character services, whether MCT, or extractors, or SP packages. I’ll occasionally make a new account/character using one of those special offers, and then I have even more opportunities to claim the daily/event rewards. I’m up to almost two dozen active accounts right now, and the last time I was actually in the game, undocked and doing something interactive like PvE or PvP, was months ago. Today, EVE makes it super-easy to do all of my playing without ever leaving the character creator/selection screen!
I think that maybe CCP’s server costs are growing too large, so they’re trying to lower the online player count in order to save on bandwidth and processing power. After all, it wouldn’t reflect well on them if there were so many people actively playing their MMO, that their servers would strain to support them all at the same, resulting in lag and slowdowns that would make them scramble to add additional resources. People would probably make fun of them for not keeping up in their ability to support such a large player base, causing a lot of negative publicity in the gaming media. I don’t want to add fuel to the fire, so I’ll continue to help CCP and EVE by only logging in to claim my rewards, and buying things from the cash shop. I want EVE to be successful and last a long time, and don’t want to create problems by selfishly trying to entertain myself with in-game content, when everything I could possibly need is presented to me at the login screen. I can play (and therefore waste the resources of) other games that I don’t care as much about as I care about this one.