Derogatory term for anyone who plays the game for something other than PvP.

When the f**k did EVE turn into the Animal Channel?

Just waiting for Johnny Morris to join in this animal discussuion.

One needs to have live in the UK and be a bit older to get this

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.

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.

Carebear - a derogatory or condescending name used to provoke a player.

Unlike PvP'r, Industrialist, Miner, Market Trader, Mission Runner which actually describes what a person does in game.

Under those terms this could be a personal attack a reportable offence, granted the case would be thin but CCP would not be able to ignore said petition.

In other words it is no different then calling someone one many things that would get you banned or warned in a heart beat.
Funny isn't it, create a new word and you can get away using it for a long time until it becomes excepted.
Once a word is excepted then it falls under the same rules as any other, and as such its usage is bound by society.

So are you all sure you really want to define carebear ?

"Carebear" describes what somebody does in-game. You'll get warned/gagged/banned in a heartbeat for using a derogatory term attacking a player for some immutable characteristic. The way you play the game is not an "immutable characteristic."

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...

[quote=Jorma Morkkis][quote=Akirei Scytale]

there's a difference between risk aversion and refusing to do something dumb

That's debatable and totally a matter of perspective in my view.

You may think I'm risk averse because I won't engage your assault ship in my battleship,

I might say it's refusal to do something dumb such as risk my billion isk shield booster by engaging a ship that has great dps, is fast with almost no sig radius while I don't have a web or warp scrambler fit AND there are other people in local who very well might be fleetmates of said assault ship.

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That's debatable and totally a matter of perspective in my view.

You may think I'm risk averse because I won't engage your assault ship in my battleship,

I might say it's refusal to do something dumb such as risk my billion isk shield booster by engaging a ship that has great dps, is fast with almost no sig radius while I don't have a web or warp scrambler fit AND there are other people in local who very well might be fleetmates of said assault ship.

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That isn't risk aversion.

By ganker definition it is.

No it isn't, other than as a strawman.

Post #11

http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1546396&page=1#11

Have you ever read these forums?

I have seen similar non sarcastic comments like this before and even since the great ISD attack of O12.

Easy. A bear that cares.