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<H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar Crossfire MUD</H1>
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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar Crossfire MUD</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: "Dr. Cat" <<A HREF="mailto:cat#bga,com">cat#bga,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:28:35 -0500 (CDT)</LI>
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> You are assuming that the largest possible candidate player base is
> the (or a) driving design metric. It is especially suspect in a
> hobbiest field where the reasons driving development are typically
> much more personal and often ego/fad/genital-size/religious-crusade
> based.
Probably true of most mud developers. I have no interest in making this
pursuit a hobby for myself. It's a career. Which is why I don't really
fit in with the mud development community.
> Even in the commercial world this is not necessarily true. As any
> of the contractors here can readily report, often, (far too?)
> individual hobby horses are used instead as the guide rule rather than
> any bean-counter's ROI calculation. Lotus with Notes and CC:Mail is a
> perfect and well publicised example. Other cases abound.
I'm interested in making my decisions based on sound criteria that will
really enable my work to reach a larger audience. Not on the often
misguided assumption "but indulging my hobby horse IS what will bring us
the biggest audience!" I've worked at more than one company that made
their choices that way, and I don't really fit in at places like that
either.
> If instead you intend to
> define a narrower and more exclusive target market ("we want the
> geeks!" or whatever), then these various barriers to entry can
> causally act as selection criteria for your public.
I'm only interested in working in mass media. If a niche market is "only
10 million to 30 million Americans, rather than all of 'em" maybe it's
interesting to me. If it's 100,000 then it's for somebody else, thanks.
And I'm already limited to a niche of around 20% of the US population by
requiring Internet access - even less than 20% in every other country in
the world. I'd as soon not limit myself much further. Repeat earlier
comment about how I don't really fit in with the rest of the mud
development community, almost all of whom are focusing on various niches
and probably quite happy there.
I really have very few peers in the world, as far as other people that
want to write graphic mud servers that can handle hundreds of thousands
or even millions of users, and are engaged in a serious project to
actually do so. So there's not many people for me to talk to that would
approach issues from a similar perspective. And my opinions,
experiences, and approaches might be of no value whatsoever to someone
who's writing a non-commercial text mud as a hobby that handles 1000
users and explores some really exotic and bizarre new approach to mud
design. People ought to be writing such muds, and playing them, but I'm
not really sure that I and the developer of that mud have very much to
talk to each other about. My biggest focuses are on topics that see
little or no discussion here, such as providing extreme ease of use for
the extreme novices out there. I think you could make a case that ICQ is
actually a bizarre form of a skeletal MUD, and that it has one of the most
brilliant mud designs ever.
Anyway I'm sorry for rambling. I'll try to go back to lurking and not
say anything for another six months or so. :X)
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00246" HREF="msg00246.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Java for Mud Client (Crossfire MUD topic)</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Thu 30 Apr 1998, 00:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00785" HREF="msg00785.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Java for Mud Client (Crossfire MUD topic)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00245" HREF="msg00245.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Java for Mud Client (Crossfire MUD topic)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00244" HREF="msg00244.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar Crossfire MUD</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 29 Apr 1998, 23:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00259" HREF="msg00259.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar Crossfire MUD</A></strong>,
Dr. Cat <a href="mailto:cat#bga,com">cat#bga,com</a>, Thu 30 Apr 1998, 04:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00264" HREF="msg00264.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar Crossfire MUD</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 30 Apr 1998, 07:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00279" HREF="msg00279.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar</A></strong>,
s001gmu <a href="mailto:s001gmu#nova,wright.edu">s001gmu#nova,wright.edu</a>, Thu 30 Apr 1998, 20:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00287" HREF="msg00287.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar</A></strong>,
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