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From: Peter Tyson <ptyson@datamonitor.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:07:42 +0100
Organization: Kanga.Nu
>"Freeman, Jeff" wrote:
>> From: Koster, Raph [mailto:rkoster@verant.com]
>> Jonathan Baron calls them microcommunities; he always wanted to
>> make a game where they were centered around a capital ship in
>> space. I would guess they fall under that theoretical magic
>> number of 250 in size.
> What's so great about that number anyway? As I recall, that's the
> theoretical limit in community size before it breaks into
> sub-communities - which in theory makes it "as big as an online a
> community can get".
Collectives (as in political/economic collectives) run on around the
same number I believe. Back when I studied political theory more I
remember the Fagor collective in Spain (that still running? No idea)
which comprised of a total of around 20,000 workers or something was
divided into units no bigger than 500 or so people at a time for the
above reasons.
I would say the same may be true of Kibbutz? Hmm, there could be
commune/collectives theory floating around somewhere which has
influenced this number and resulted in the magic size quoted.
O, also, I'm working on a study on Wireless Games, anyone here
involved with this stuff? Would love to interview you, get in touch!
Peter Tyson
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