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How would you define a "carebear"?
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Cobalt Sablestar Icefluxor
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#121 - 2012-08-12 23:38:46 UTC
Lilianna Star wrote:
I'm not asking for any official definition, I'm asking what YOU think a carebear is.

When you think of carebears, you think of....


I'm not sure what a CareBear is esp. since all player levels have a differing criteria....but you ARE identified explicitely as a TROLL.
Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management
#122 - 2012-08-12 23:44:12 UTC
Pilna Vcelka wrote:
Carebear is a mentally grown-up person with reasonably big p***s who doesnt feel the urge to compensate for their real life failures by trying to become wannabe uberleet internet gangster and doesnt find runing other players gameplay neither fun nor manly, but rather boring, immature activity.

Carebear is typically a player who logs in to enjoy the EVE gameplay atmosphere and to cooperate with others to create stuff and to relax rather than destroying stuff and trembling with adrenaline while hunting a poorly fit industrial ship 20v1 along with other dejected pvp nerds.

That said, us carebears love and need PvP scrubs because they keep the economy going and let us earn space riches by creating constand demand for ships and modules and by keeping high-sec ore prices high.


Keep telling yourself that, if that form of validation works for you, so be it.

Unified Church of the Unobligated - madness in the method Mamma didn't raise no victims.
James 315
Experimental Fun Times Corp RELOADED
CODE.
#123 - 2012-08-12 23:49:12 UTC
MeBiatch wrote:
Jorma Morkkis wrote:
Andski wrote:
Jorma Morkkis wrote:
Doddy wrote:
In eve this is best applied to players who stick to hisec


Problem is that even if I go to lowsec in covops and campers can't catch me, for pvper's I'm still carebear.


The carebear is the one that jumps into a camped lowsec gate in a mining/mission ship, thinking that the dudes on the gate won't bother with him because he's not looking for a fight, and whining in local when they have his pod tackled, because as it turns out, they aren't quite sympathetic to his wish to carebear in lowsec in peace.

The guy who jumps in in a covops and evades their camp is simply prudent.


So I'm carebear since I can't prove I've been in lowsec or mined in w-space...


no your a carebear because you post with forum alts...

Some of my best friends are forum alts... Smile

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Fynn Rinah
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#124 - 2012-08-12 23:50:25 UTC
Funny.. I always think of bears hopping around on clouds and rainbows..


Care Bears
Lyrrashae
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#125 - 2012-08-12 23:56:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Lyrrashae
MatrixSkye Mk2 wrote:

[...] rabid animals are running rampant looking to ruin lives [...]



My God, he's serious, isn't he. Roll

EVE is a video-game, bru. That's all it is.

Say it with me:

VIDEO

...

...

GAME.

IOW, as someone once said: "Nothing of any value was lost..." (Unknown)

Next!

Ni.
Abel Merkabah
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#126 - 2012-08-12 23:58:52 UTC
Lyrrashae wrote:
MatrixSkye Mk2 wrote:

[...] rabid animals are running rampant looking to ruin lives [...]



My God, he's serious, isn't he. Roll

EVE is a video-game, bru. That's all it is.

Say it with me:

VIDEO

...

...

GAME.

IOW, as someone once said: "Nothing of any value was lost..." (Unknown)

Next!


Well, don't jump to conclusions. I heard gankers killed his father and raped his mother...

James315 for CSM 8!
Talos Vaden
Doomheim
#127 - 2012-08-13 00:13:20 UTC
I would personally say that a carebear is someone that does not understand that EVE is a multiplayer game based around PvP and tries to play it as though it is a singleplayer game based around PvE. I'd say it's entirely possible to be a high-sec dwelling industrialist without being a carebear. It's more based on attitude than your in-game activities. The difference is the non-carebear industrialist won't whine when they get blown up by suicide gankers or wardec'd by some bored PvPers because they understand that's just part of the game.
Shameless Avenger
Can Preachers of Kador
#128 - 2012-08-13 00:15:01 UTC
A carebear is a PVPer's alt. Money for ships has to come from somewhere.

"This is the Ninja. He will scan you down; he will salvage your wrecks and there shall be no aggro"
Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#129 - 2012-08-13 00:20:16 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Someone poorly educated on game mechanics who's first response to a problem involving other players is to get CCP to nerf said players tactics. They are the kind of people who try to petition people because they got scammed.

Big difference between Carebear and PvE Player.


By this definition everyone is a carebear cause I've seen whining from every type here in the troll post here.
btw, I am king carebear. I'm soft and oh so cuddly.
Lyrrashae
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#130 - 2012-08-13 00:22:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Lyrrashae
Pilna Vcelka wrote:
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:


EVE relies in seriously preventing players to have too much fun too easy, otherwise it all would collapse as a house of cards...


Or, you know, it could have tens of millions of active subscribers like WoW does. But then the hardcore nerds would become insignificant nolifers again and that would hurt their sad child souls badly :D



Um, no:

From what I've seen at least, the mainstream WoW community is mostly ****.

Quality >>>>> quantity.

(Or, to use my favourite analogy, an Aston Martin Vantage V-12 cannot be a Camaro, and any attempts to do so will typically end badly. I leave it to you to figure out which is which.)

Ni.
Barakach
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#131 - 2012-08-13 00:25:05 UTC
I think a carebear is anything other than PvP and it's not PvP unless there is a challenge.
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#132 - 2012-08-13 01:05:17 UTC
Conrad Lionhart wrote:
In this game, I would say someone who doesn't PvP and/or always stays in high sec.

How about 'stays in hisec to pvp'? (e.g RvB or suicide gankers). I've always thought of hisec suicide gankers as prime examples of carebears. At least some in RvB venture into low/null.wh, but I doubt all. How about hisec wardec corps that stay in hisec 24/7? They just ganking fellow hisec players? Are they care bears too?

I'm in it for the money

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Regan Rotineque
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#133 - 2012-08-13 01:06:08 UTC
Make love not war <3
Tarryn Nightstorm
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#134 - 2012-08-13 01:11:04 UTC
Here's some proper Carebears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3gbnjsbb_E

(Because 1:05 - 1:20 just makes me lol IRL.)

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Charles Baker
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#135 - 2012-08-13 01:23:08 UTC
People cry about cloakies in their ratting system.
Lilianna Star
Vagrant Empress
#136 - 2012-08-13 01:38:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Lilianna Star
This is just my thought...

Personally, I consider myself a carebear because I just hate fighting other players. It's frustrating because it seems like other players always have more friends, more well equipped ships, more ships and more skill than you.

However, I respect the game's design of being in consistent danger. I won't ***** and whine when I get caught in a gatecamp because that's the risk I ran going into low/null in the first place. And I won't whine about suicide gankers in high sec because that's how the game was meant to be played.

Although I consider myself a carebear, would you consider that carebearish?
Soundwave Plays Diablo
Doomheim
#137 - 2012-08-13 01:46:40 UTC
Every single player bar none.
Lyrrashae
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#138 - 2012-08-13 01:53:51 UTC
Lilianna Star wrote:
This is just my thought...

Personally, I consider myself a carebear because I just hate fighting other players. It's frustrating because it seems like other players always have more friends, more well equipped ships, more ships and more skill than you.

However, I respect the game's design of being in consistent danger. I won't ***** and whine when I get caught in a gatecamp because that's the risk I ran going into low/null in the first place. And I won't whine about suicide gankers in high sec because that's how the game was meant to be played.

Although I consider myself a carebear, would you consider that carebearish?


^^This one.^^

She gets it.

Ni.
Abel Merkabah
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#139 - 2012-08-13 02:04:36 UTC
Lyrrashae wrote:
Pilna Vcelka wrote:
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:


EVE relies in seriously preventing players to have too much fun too easy, otherwise it all would collapse as a house of cards...


Or, you know, it could have tens of millions of active subscribers like WoW does. But then the hardcore nerds would become insignificant nolifers again and that would hurt their sad child souls badly :D



Um, no:

From what I've seen at least, the mainstream WoW community is mostly ****.

Quality >>>>> quantity.

(Or, to use my favourite analogy, an Aston Martin Vantage V-12 cannot be a Camaro, and any attempts to do so will typically end badly. I leave it to you to figure out which is which.)


Off topic...V12 Vantage is so sexy! Favorite car hands down...dream to make the money to afford one some day.

James315 for CSM 8!
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#140 - 2012-08-13 02:05:11 UTC
Lilianna Star wrote:
This is just my thought...

Personally, I consider myself a carebear because I just hate fighting other players. It's frustrating because it seems like other players always have more friends, more well equipped ships, more ships and more skill than you.

However, I respect the game's design of being in consistent danger. I won't ***** and whine when I get caught in a gatecamp because that's the risk I ran going into low/null in the first place. And I won't whine about suicide gankers in high sec because that's how the game was meant to be played.

Although I consider myself a carebear, would you consider that carebearish?

Not at all. You are my favorite kind of player.