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From: Matthew Mihaly <diablo@best.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:03:20 -0700 (PDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Marian Griffith wrote:
> My initial remark about there being more players for non-combat oriented
> games than there are combat mud players was based on an old (!) mud list
> that had the mushes and such outnumber the muds by about 2 to 1. I added
> to that the observation that the average mush that I know of has a sig-
> nificantly bigger active player base than the average mud that I know of
> and came to the conclusion that it would surprise me very much if the
> statement that social oriented players were a negliciable percentage of
> the mud players. Hardly reliable statistics I admit, but at least that
> is how I arrived at my conclusion.
Well, I suppose it's possible that mushes and such outnumber muds 2 to 1,
but how many players do these mushes have? When you have some muds that
have 10s of thousands of players, they alone will account for hundreds of
your average mud/mushes in terms of player base.
--matt
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