Fly for fun. google it.

If you are truly desperate you could always try Runescape.

Hehe... ya... Infinity... I wish I could play that but since it is being coded ENTIRELY by one man, it probably won't be out til at least 2010. Looks like it will be one of the best if not the best space MMO of all time. Check out his dev journals though for a peak at the game... The visuals are spectacular. The game is to scale (as in planets are thousands of KMs in diameter), and you can actually fly around and land on planets (not some pre-scripted thing but actually manual landing). It takes procedural generation to the extreme, with nearly every solar system and everything in it will be procedural. This allows the game to litterally have millions of solar systems (which he plans on having) due to each solar system being the result of a single random number (and thus taking very little memory).

It is definately worth checking out... just don't get your hopes up for a release before 2010... (although a beta is hoped for in 2009) Infinity

This is just too damn funny.  Wow, good reply.

I'm looking at a good MMORPG as well, I've tried Runescape (4 years ago, I was pretty immature at the time, and looking back I hate that community) and today I played Maple Story (there really wasn't a set objective, no PvP, and horrible UI)

I want something free, something that's fun to play with friends, and with a little bit of PvP (but nothing like somebody with the highest level can camp the starting location)

Sorry completely forgot to mention that MMOs are the ONLY place where you PAY to WORK!

@astonerbum

Also, money is not a factor. I have tons. I also have time. I don't need the simple satisfaction of a 5 minute FPS or a 30 minute RTS spam-fest. I'd rather spend 2 yrs working for something just to have it destroyed. And rebuild all over again. Also, if a MMO keeps my attention for a full year, let's say; I will save money over buying games I lose interest in. 1 year of EVE would = Fallout 3 + Sins + Spore. 3 games I bought this year and won't be playing anywhere near EVE time. Especially Fallout 3 and Sbore. Not to mention the expansion packs they put out. Yeah MMOs are the only ones who want your money.

As for your case of working for something and having fun; I think your name says it all.

Thanks for the input, you just made me realize why I wanted to get back into MMOs.

well, i havent been playing 2 yrs. you have to wait

Well, a bit late to the party but I want to toss in a plug for City of Heroes.  It definitely ain't Everquest/WoW in spandex.

• The big thing in CoH is creativity.  The costume creation has a [url=http://www.wegame.com/watch/City_of_Villains_Costume_Creation/]ton[/url] of options.  And they aren't stingy about them, either.  Each character can get up to five costumes.
• You only get a few powers spoon fed to you right at the start of the game.  For the most part, you pick powers as you go along.  The best ones will be in the power sets you pick at the start of the game but, if you don't like the power in your power set, you can snag one from the common power pools.  So your fire blaster might have some healing powers while that other guy has stealth powers.
• As you gain levels you earn "slots" which can be added to all your powers.  You then put enhancements in these slots to enhance some aspect of the power: increase the damage, the range, the recharge time, the accuracy, the endurance cost... whatever.  So your fire blast might shoot farther than another guy's but his might hit harder while my fire blast will hit more often.
• One of the best things (IMHO) about the game is the sidekick ability.  Are you playing a level 30 but your friend wants to work on his level 15?  No problem.  Sidekick him and play together.  He'll be boosted up to level 29 while he's close to you.  This feature is incredibly handy!  It's actually pretty rare to have a team without at least one sidekick.
• The game is solo friendly - a lot more solo friendly than when it originally came out, actually.  You can still make characters that are very group oriented that can't solo but, with the most recent update, there's even an answer for that....
• Each character now has two builds.  Each build has the same power set choices (so your Stone/Fire tank will always have Stone defensive powers and Fire offensive powers) but is otherwise independent.  That allows you to make one build for your tank that is team orient while the other build is designed for solo play.  Or you could have one PvE build and one PvP build.
• No trinity.  You do NOT need a healer.  First of all, there are other defesnive sets that mitigate damge quite well by either reducing it or making enemies miss.  Second, many characters have healing powers.  That's not to say that healing is pointless but it certainly isn't the only option.  Tanking is also not absolutely required.  As for damage... almost everyone can do decent damage.
• Very little endgame.  When you get to level 50 you can keep playing the character to improve their enhancements (there are some pretty expensive ones) and to see the content but, for the most part, you're done.  Start a new character.  Alt-itis isn't a curse in CoH/CoV, it's how you are supposed to play.
• Lots of different enemies - and by different I don't just mean different models with different special effects.  The earliest enemies are all pretty much thugs with pistols but they get diverse fast.  You need to learn different tactics for each.
• Smart, dynamic battles.  If you're going to just stand there spamming your three best powers, plan on dying a lot.  You will need to move around a lot and think about which powers work when.
• Knocback is a big thing in this game.  It was kinda funny to watch the Funcom guys talk about it when they were hyping Conan - that ain't knockback folks.  We're talking slam-you-50-yards-down-the-hall knockback.  We're also talking really-tick-off-the-melee-folks knockback if you go blasting their target clear off into the next spawn.  Like I said, SMART combat.  Nothing a GalCiv2 player couldn't handle with one lobe tied behind his back, but enough to keep you on your toes.
• Big expansions that cost NOTHING.  City of Villains is the only expansion that cost extra and now there isn't even that.  If you buy CoV or CoH, you get both.

It's big minus for me is the repetitive environments of missions.  Warehouse, cave, warehouse, warehouse, high tech, cave, cave with machines, warehouse.... Lucky the enemies are pretty different because the decore sure isn't.

I hope that EVE game sticks around.  I very much want to play it after I retire.

Probably the closest you can get right now is Guild Wars Not completely free, but no subscription once you get it.

I would second taking a serious look at Dungeons & Dragons Online. It has the best "true player interactive based combat system I have found/seen anywhere.

Here is the Trial link: http://trial.ddo.com/

I like Requim: Bloodymare, its has neat features, questdriven, you chars look relitvly cool quickly, you can dismember enemies when u kill when and theres lots of the blood. nice effects. F2P or u can pay for an account and lvl faster

Another very good one is Cabal Online Very well made almost every 10 lvls u get a cool new feature to mess with(until 100), effect are REALLY good. Lvl capp is like 500 I think.Its free to!! but still very fun and good.

Yah sounds, like he just don't like the genre.