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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>: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:03:20 -0700 (PDT)</LI>
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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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<LI><strong><A NAME="00040" HREF="msg00040.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Fri 23 Jul 1999, 20:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00043" HREF="msg00043.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</a>, Sat 24 Jul 1999, 00:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00064" HREF="msg00064.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00065" HREF="msg00065.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Tue 27 Jul 1999, 18:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00067" HREF="msg00067.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00068" HREF="msg00068.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00069" HREF="msg00069.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] mud vs. mush membership</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Wed 28 Jul 1999, 16:33 GMT
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