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Posted - 2016.09.06 23:10:55 -
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Nalia White wrote:I have almost 20k kills and only 270 losses with an ISK efficiency of 99.3%. I am a carebear.
every pilot flying a freighter in highsec is less of a carebear than i am :)
imho carebearing has to do with risk averse play. Everyone from code is a bigger carebear than any of their targets also :)
Slightly different view below.
Having an ISK efficiency of 99.3% with 75:1 kill-loss ratio says more about how good you are at managing risk, not that you are necessarily averse to it. In that regard, it's quite possible to take on risk without being stupid in doing so; and being good at what you do doesn't alone make you a Carebear.
Each activity in game has its own inherent level of risk and players that take on responsibility for how they manage their risks are not Carebears, no matter what style of play they prefer.
At any point, the ships that you shoot could have a cyno/covert cyno fit, with support ready to jump in. That they don't isn't your fault and despite that possibility you regularly engage anyway.
Being a Carebear is in my view, something different. It's asking others (usually CCP) to take responsibility for the risks, rather than having personal accountability.
Black Pedro expressed a similar view back on page 1:
Black Pedro wrote:A carebear is someone who rejects the premise that they can be interacted with against their will. They don't accept that it is part of the game for another player to attack them against their will and don't think they should have to adjust their game play to account for this possibility.
So whether as a nullsec system camper, highsec freighter pilot, lowsec mission runner, ganker, wardeccer, miner, explorer or any other style of valid play in the game, Carebear is not about being good at managing risk, it's about whether you are willing to manage it or not in the first place.
People that aren't willing to manage risk and who prefer to just whinge are the Carebears.
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Pandora Carrollon wrote:...I haven't really found one in the seven months I've been playing EVE and I've run across a lot of players in HiSec, talked to many. None had the markings or tag of "Carebear " on them. ... What I find is interesting, is sometimes the biggest Carebears, or the ones closest to the mythical definition are the ones railing against them. A certain pseudo religion in HiSec comes to mind...   
If the first sentence is true, how can you argue the second sentence?
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