Re: # of active players?

Carl Burke (cburke@mitre.org)
Thu, 04 Feb 1999 16:03:43 -0500

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At 02:14 PM 2/4/99 -0600, J.B. Jones III wrote:
>Hi,
> While looking at web turns posted on the Oly site, I noted that a report run
>for turn 100. It appeared to be an early turn for the faction, because they knew
>no spells, no skills and had not visited any province.
> The ranks in these areas thus represent all other players with similar lack.
>Although the turn listed 357 players as being in the game, the ranks were
>268, 238 and 263 respectively. This means 94 players have never bothered
>to even move into one province and 89 have never learned a single skill. Perhaps
>a few have just joined (usually 5-10 per turn), but the rest have never done
>anything of significance after joining.
> I find this strange.

I've seen this happen quite a bit with games that are available
from the web, whether played there or via email. There seem to be
swarms of people who derive great joy from signing up for games
that they never play again. I don't know if there was a similar
problem in the days before email, given the extra effort required
to mail somebody a setup form, but there are certainly people here
who could tell us.

It's stupid, but it's not strange.

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Carl Burke
cburke@mitre.org

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