[DeusEx]

I do think it is a serious problem of EvE nowadays and it has it's roots in the real time skill training system. 10m SP, which is indeed, often the minimum requirement for a territorial 0.0 corp, equals about 10 months training time, in which the newbie is probably supposed to run missions in empire or even worse hanging out with some awful low sec wannabe pirates that camp a gate the whole night for perhaps 5 ships worth of nothing. There lies the problem right there. EvE doesn't offer a pleasing leveling experience like e.g. WoW does.

The 0.0 corps can't even be blamed for their high SP requirements. As EvE gets older and older it's suspect to mudflation like every other MMO. When it came out in 2003 a Battleship was the best ship available, while now 0.0 warfare revolves around capital and supercapital ships. At least most territorial 0.0 corps want to have T2 capable pilots, hence the 10m SP requirements. Unfortunately newbies have to work up the whole way there. I don't want to know what it will look like when T3 becomes available.

The Graduates seem like a good choice, if you want to get into 0.0 relatively fast, without going the Goon way (you'd need to have a Something Awful account anyway and I personally wouldn't recommend Goonfleet to anyone, since they're very "special").