I spose this the WoWs response to James315.

I wouldn't lump industrialists and miners together with carebears. Carebears are a very specific group of players. The former take advantage of the opportunities that risk presents, while the latter want risk to disappear entirely.

I still pretty much agree with the whole thing though. Those people are like locusts. They devour every bit of life from a game before moving on to the next one. EVE isn't the first such game to go through this ordeal, and won't be the last.

If CCP is doing this to cash out, then we're ****** anyway. Even disregarding the changes they'd make to be able to cash out properly, the only companies wealthy enough to make the buyout would turn EVE into a sterilized white-box venture.

Enjoyable read but way too short.

I recommend the next one to be couple of posts long.

It all depends on how you classify a carebear.

Is it the people that just play the PVE portion of the game, is it the miners, the industrialists & traders or is it anybody that refuses to adapt?

I kind of fall into the first category, I primarily just do PVE & trading however I accept that others are free to interfere in what I do and adapt accordingly or ignore their attempts to bait me into a fight. That said I've done wormholes, roamed through losec and been exploded and caused others to do the same in both places. (not on this character, no presence on killboards at all is better than the presence I do have on my alt )

Am I a parasite, a carebear or someone just meandering along their own path dipping my toes into various parts of the Eve experience until I find something I both enjoy and don't actually suck at?

Well, atleast you have a choice,mate... I probably suck at anything I enjoy.

Yes, even IRL.

You think the "pvp pilot" may have some industrial alts to build stuff too? Why do you think people would only do one thing in the game?