I have some candid feedback: It makes no sense to define a player by an activity and therefore try to paint them with a “value system”. Words like “miners”, “gankers”, “PVP-ers”, “PVE-ers”, “mission runners”, “abyss runners”, “market-makers”, “haulers”, “arbitragers”, “pod racers”, “gate jumpers”, “warp-initiators”, “planetary-interaction-ists”, “industrialists”, “manufacturers”, “explorers”, “scammers”, “contractors”, “mercenaries”, “ESS robbers”, “CRAB deployers”, “gate campers”, “pirates”, “bumpers”, “anti-gankers”, etc are reflective of this kind of thinking.
A single player can do multiple activities. Activities are like clothes, a single player can go out and try on or wear multiple, sometimes at the same time. Trying to put a straight-jacket on everything and declare “players that do X activities think blah” is unnecessary stereotyping and, well, wrong, because there’s too many individuals to know all their values.
If I can suggest an alternative way of thinking: the alone and not-alone dichotomy.
There are players that want to play alone in the sandbox world and get very upset when unable to. I also include the mentality of “it-must-be-played-my-way” in the alone category. Fundamentally, the alone bucket is about denying the agency of peer players to engage the sandbox however it allows them on their own terms.
Non-alone players recognize the equality afforded to everyone to engage the sandbox on their own terms. That means sometimes there is tough luck: someone else decided to ruin whatever plans you had that day, or refuses to behave in a “logical-metawise way”, or refuses to behave according to the self’s ideas of what the rules should be. Recognizing that innate freedom and equality afforded to each other in the sandbox is what characterizes this group.
Note that “alone” and “not-alone” play says nothing about solo/group play: there are groups that get mad when other people just won’t behave in a manner that makes sense in “the meta” or “according to their rules”; and there are solo players that engage the sandbox fully expecting the pain and hardship and limitations and challenges associated with being 1 person up against the universe.
Please don’t try to associate people with activity-labels, reality is more nuanced than that.