Curious Onlooker
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Posted - 2014.10.14 03:21:00 -
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You're asking if the group of players that an intentionally derogatory term identifies, exists.
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. |