EVE General Discussion

Decided to look up urbandictionary.com definition for "carebear" after reading a small argument about it on here. There's a few posts that stood out that I wanted to share.

The first being a definition I thought was rather accurate



Another that offers a bit of perspective



And lastly, a rather amusing one



Add your own if you please, there's a bunch of interesting and/or amusing definitions on there.

Without the carebears how can buy all my ship in which to blow them up with? D= Really it's a horrible cycle, but it's a cycle that...works...


Hold on, I'mma go write a letter to the president on how to fix the economy. *scampers off*

Most players I know use the same definition - and is has nothing to do what region of space they operate in :) There are carebears in high, null, low, wormhole space - they are everywhere! :-)

A carebear is a player who seeks to avoid any type of interaction with other players that does not result in him making ISK. They are generally unwilling to learn any game mechanics that are not directly involved with making ISK, and when players with differing play styles present challenges that stand in the way of making ISK - the reaction is one of personal insults, forum posts, anger - generally any reaction that does not involve learning about game mechanics that they don't personally enjoy using.

Add to that a sense of self-entitlement and a victim mentality - many carebears feel that they should have the right to load up eve, undock in a valuable ship and float AFK for hours without anyone being able to bother them. When someone dares shatter this illusion - they were simply "defenseless", "helpless", "innocent", and "unarmed" and anyone that dared to fire on them was some type of internet spaceship bully or probably a bad person RL.

There's my two cents. For the TL;DR version:

"Carebears are players who seek nothing but ISK and have little to no desire to engage in any part of the game that does not further that specific goal. The carebear tends to suffer from a sense of self-entitlement and victim mentality, and is usually unwilling to embrace play styles that he or she does approve of."

Yup.

I know plenty of players who have never fired a single shot at another player and who only seek ISK who are totally not carebears :)

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Carebears are players unwilling to take any risks. The worst ones would actually want all risk removed from the game.


For example, I wouldn't consider full-blown carebears:

. traders
. industrial players seeding lowsec/nullsec markets
. wormhole PVEers
. lowsec/nullsec explorers


On the other hand, I would consider PVPers that only engage with overwhelming odds to be borderline carebear. Though in PVP there's always something that can go wrong and I appreciate the fact that they're minimizing the risk by planning/intel effort (instead of whining).

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The term has been around for a long time.

Back in the days of the Atari 2600, cartridges (ha! Cartridges!) were sold with symbols on the packaging. If the game was easy mode, or had an easy mode, meaning younger kids could play it, the box has a symbol of a teddy bear head.

The actual "Care Bear" toy didn't come out until later, sometime in the mid 1980s (I think).


Yeah I'm old.

my two man wardec corp has been called cowards even though we have hundreds of war targets at a single time. Just because we play in a way that maximizes our success, they think we're cowards while they only voluntarily engage us with 8+ guys.

You take it from Carebears or anyone else foolish enough to not properly protect their assets.