EVE General Discussion

Not my fault if anything less infantile than what mega pew goblins are is above your level.

Glad to be here

No. Her name is Chlorine. Chlorine Baconskin.

That is the name of every woman I have sex with. Whether she likes it or not.

Hey, pretty lady. You mind if I call you Chlorine?

I've been told I was "care bearing" for doing PI and mining a bit. But of course when I move the PI stuff to market and evade and get away from gate camps I laugh about it in corp chat.

Not trying to fight with you, mate. It was just a conversation-starter and food-for-thought.

You're asking if the group of players that an intentionally *derogatory term identifies, exists.

(* minor edit; carebear was almost exclusively used in a derogatory sense back before eve fell into the tired old slump it is in these days. Acceptance of a term by many players does not change the nature of the term, only the impact they let it have on them.)

Surely, you must realize how silly that is. Sure, there are a lot of people more than happy to preach about how their definition is the right one, and how others are wrong, but it's just spit in the wind.

Are there players who do nothing in Eve except missions and ratting to make money?

Of course there are.

Do all of them have an ongoing impact on eve and the economy in any fashion whatsoever?

No. Some players rat primarily with sentry drones, or lasers and tech 1 crystals, to where they practically never have to replace their ammo, their drones. Without any regular purchasing, or supply of goods into the eve economy, aside from their long ago ship purchases, they are not tied into the system of creation and destruction at all. Is this a bad thing?

Of course not. Eve is a game. Taking it seriously to the point where you genuinely believe that this sort of activity is a bad thing, only displays insecurities in your own character, something that runs rampant on the Eve forums.

As for industrialists, miners, producers. Again, are there those that do nothing else, except mining, building, inventing, reacting?

Certainly. That's all I do these days.

Do all of them have an ongoing impact on eve and the economy in any fashion whatsoever?

So long as they sell, trade, give away their product, or purchase products from others to facilitate their endeavours; yes. It used to be profitable to build some ships and blow them up yourself for insurance, but with this being a thing of the past due to insurance payout changes, I think it is extremely safe to say that they have a beneficial impact on the game and economy, facilitating pvp for those that want it.

Then of course, those who will insist that there are different types of carebears; nullbear, fleetbear, etc. It's pretty safe to chalk these people up with the other internet warriors who will debate for hours the difference between a noob, nub, newb, etc.


TL:DR; Carebear is a label, applied by those less industry/economy/isk focused, to those that are more so. Both groups exist, the label neither changes nor affects anything.

I am a carebear.

I started EVE wanting to never hurt anyone and just be the best guy ever to everyone.

Now, I can't enter high sec, I kill almost anyone I see, and am thinking of drug use.

But still, I am a carebear.

I only attack ships that can fight back. I rarely pod. And if someone asked, I would let their pod go.

Overall, it is a game. I want good kills. But I don't want to grief people. Heck, I would gladly take my victims out with me and get them into low sec pvp.

So yes, carebear all the way. But bears have teeth and claws. Be very afraid when you teach a bear it can defend itself.

A carebear is someone who is completly repellent to any kind of pvp and instantly runs when something with guns on it warps to his belt.

This can have reasons like :

I don't want to hurt anybody
Why do you want to hurt me if I dont hurt you
I am scared to get hurt.


So yes.

Carebears can be mistaken for bots.

Most of them upgraded to Nullbears though since Null is more profitable and way safer.

Last night I stole someone's ore because he was mining into an non-password-protected container.

He then made a scene out of it, and someone even went as far as throwing bad **** talk at me.