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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Guide Applicant : Player Ratio</H1>
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<LI><em>To</em>: "'<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>'" <<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>></LI>
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<LI><em>From</em>: Matthew Mihaly <<A HREF="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:11:20 -0800 (PST)</LI>
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Geoffrey A. MacDougall wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Two short and simple questions for which I hope there are short and simple
> answers:
>
> 1.) When one is designing a guide/admin/wizard/immortal/whatever system that
> relies on player volunteers (for a large-scale graphical commercial MUD),
> how many applications per number of players can one expect to receive?
> I.e., what percentage of the playerbase would be interested in becoming a
> guide?
>
> 2.) What is the ratio of qualified applicants to total number of
> applications?
>
> I realize these questions are liable to elicit a number of answers that
> begin with "It depends...", but I'm hoping for a sweeping generalization, if
> there is one...
I can't speak for graphical commercial MUDs, but we tend to get about 5%
of our active playerbase interested in being a Guide when we ask for
applications. Our requirements are largely just that they have to have
played at least 300 hours before applying.
I make the applicants write a little essay on why they should be a Guide,
and I find that about half of them write well enough and demonstrate a
mature enough grasp of their duties to be chosen.
--matt
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00425" HREF="msg00425.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Guide Applicant : Player Ratio</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00401" HREF="msg00401.html">[MUD-Dev] Codebase Ideas</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00423" HREF="msg00423.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Codebase Ideas</A></strong>,
Aaron Mitchell <a href="mailto:aaron#fate,net">aaron#fate,net</a>, Fri 18 Feb 2000, 18:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00370" HREF="msg00370.html">[MUD-Dev] The Endeavour Map and MUD Applications</A></strong>,
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