Eve Online is okay. The PvP and PvE are both player driven from 1500+ player warfare out in the ends of the universe to solo mining in high-security space.
Almost everything on the market place, save a few seeded materials and named drops from random mobs, or "rats," is crafted by players. The market is driven by a few top-end corporations and with that the economy is very politically entangled. CCP has employed a financial analyst at this point to investigate the sheer vastness of the economy in Eve, making it by far a title well worthy of a sandbox MMO. Too bad that most people call it Spreadsheets Online... honestly, it's a really tedious game whose main accomplishments come more from the PvP aspect where only a small percentage of the people actually engage in the gameplay available to them. The rest of the carebears make up the majority of the population and CCP tunes the game towards them, resulting in multiple changes to the game's mechanics that were less than favorable (in most cases it took out the uniqueness of ships and caused every pvp fight to have the same ship makeup... it was dumb).
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