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Akita T
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Posted - 2011.07.15 01:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Xenuria
Imagine an eve with no carebears. [...] The point is carebears like me are a critical part of eve online. Without carebears the market would come crashing down.
You don't have to be 100% carebear to have high standings with some NPC entity.
You don't have to be a carebear to also be an industrialist.
You can always create jumpclones in 0.0 stations and in Clone Vat Bays.
So, an EVE without carebears, you say ?
Prices would shift, markets would experience some increased volatility, relative earnings for various occupations would change, we would have far, FAR less supercapitals, and not much else.
But that's besides the point.
So many people are carebears that nothing of essence would be lost if the carebear population would be drastically reduced.
Any INDIVIDUAL carebear is as good as irrelevant.
Any entire subclass of carebears is expendable.
All carebears as a whole are merely a CONVENIENT part of EVE.
An EVE without carebears could very well potentially be a much more fun EVE.
But we'll never have that, since most people are carebears.
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Akita T
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Posted - 2011.07.15 02:22:00 -
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Edited by: Akita T on 15/07/2011 02:28:06
Originally by: Sarina Berghil
Akita with all those assumptions, could you please do me a favor and define 'carebear'. :-)
EVE carebear : a player with such a high personal "risk aversion" factor that makes him try to avoid as much as possible any form of PvP in which he has a non-negligible chance of losing something.
You can have carebear PvPers (a.k.a. "gankbears"), you can have carebear 0.0 dwellers (a.k.a. "AFK-cloak whiners"), you can even have carebear traders (the type that starts flooding you with evemails as soon as you start "interfering ") and so on and so forth.
Going by that definition, the overwhelming vast majority of EVE players are either (partial or complete) carebears themselves, or at least have carebear alts 
The rest are either reckless, bored, inexperienced, stupid, PLEX sellers (or RMT ISK purchasers) or an arbitrary combination of any or all of the previously mentioned attributes.
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Akita T
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Posted - 2011.07.15 03:22:00 -
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Originally by: Sarina Berghil
See now the word starts to be so inclusive that it has no meaning at all. Then we might just use the word "Eve players" ;)
I said it stealthier
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Akita T
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Posted - 2011.07.15 04:16:00 -
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Edited by: Akita T on 15/07/2011 04:17:09
Best proof that most EVE players are the "carebear" type : http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1493997&page=14#410
The highest steady subscriber growth EVER was linked to the release of the "Quantum Rise" expansion, generally regarded as a mostly "meh" expansion... while the expansion hailed as the best recent one ("Apocrypha") which was heavily PvP-oriented (w-space) has actually caused a slow and steady loss in subs combined with a reduced average time spent online.
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