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<LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:23:12 -0700</LI>
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On 02:17 PM 6/8/99 -0600, I personally witnessed Timothy O'Neill Dang
jumping up to say:
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>...any estimates of how many hours per day/per week the average MUD
>player plays? Even better, has someone done a publicly available study
>of this?
Varies widely. My own tendency is to play a game for eight to twelve hours
a day when it's new, dropping to eight to twelve hours a week after I get
familiar with it, and then eight to twelve hours a month when it becomes
boring but I feel a need to stay in touch. I've been known to log 40 to 60
hours on a single login when I first start playing a game, normally after a
few one to two hour logins to get acclimated. I also run in bursts; most of
the games I still play get played about twice a month, usually short
touch-base sorts of logins, but occasionally I will log in and do a ten to
twelve hour stretch.
It's notable that I'm a *very* serious gamer, and these numbers are likely
to be on the extreme side. I do not normally log in and idle, but I know
several people who like to just sort of stick their finger into the pie and
leave it there to stay in touch with it. A lot of daytime gamers log in
when they get to work, and then do *nothing* on the game except sit there.
I've done this on occasion, but it's normally because I touched base and
forgot to log out. ;)
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<LI><STRONG>RE: [MUD-Dev] Gender and Mud Development</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00690" HREF="msg00690.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Gender and Mud Development</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00730" HREF="msg00730.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Gender and Mud Development</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00618" HREF="msg00618.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] AOL lawsuit (was text parsing)</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Tue 08 Jun 1999, 22:54 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00605" HREF="msg00605.html">[MUD-Dev] Average play time?</A></strong>,
Timothy O'Neill Dang <a href="mailto:timothy#nmia,com">timothy#nmia,com</a>, Tue 08 Jun 1999, 21:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00608" HREF="msg00608.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Average play time?</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 08 Jun 1999, 21:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00579" HREF="msg00579.html">[MUD-Dev] Newbies (was Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
John Hopson <a href="mailto:jwh9#acpub,duke.edu">jwh9#acpub,duke.edu</a>, Mon 07 Jun 1999, 19:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00590" HREF="msg00590.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Newbies (was Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 08 Jun 1999, 02:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00561" HREF="msg00561.html">[MUD-Dev] realism</A></strong>,
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