[MUD-Dev] attracting players

[Marc Bowden]

--On Tue, May 9, 2000 17:54 -0700 adam at treyarch.com wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Mud Imp wrote:
>> [Re: troubles attracting players]
>> I forgot to mention that the mud has been up online for 5 years.
> 
> That's a pretty fair amount of time.  Can you tell us what the
> demographics have been like?  Have there been surges of players here
> and there, or has it been continuously low?
> 

  We started keeping records a little over a year ago when the
population did the first dip (50% of normal for 3 months). This is the
record to date since then. (Note this is guest and visitor logins, and
does not count officer or support staff logins.)

Dreamshadow: The Legacy of the Three
Guest and Visitor Attendance Log

Month/Year      Total        New Characters       Visitor Characters
----------      ---------    --------------       ------------------
Dec/98          1216               75                   47
Jan/99          1345              132                   73
Feb/99          1176              118                   66
Mar/99           872               64                   67
Apr/99           887               84                   81
May/99          1026              122                   54
Jun/99          1325              171                  105
Jul/99          1728              161                   94
Aug/99          1582              139                   78
Sep/99           665               89                   56
Oct/99           531               80                   52
Nov/99           341               89                   70
Dec/99           495               90                   64
Jan/00           586              109                   66
Feb/00           655              142                   77
Mar/00           647              114                   51
Apr/00           422               83                   52
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Guest Attendance Statistics
17 months on record
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Historic       15499             1862                 1153
Hist Avg         912              110                   68
Current Dev    -116%            - 25%                - 24%
Monthly Dev    - 35%            - 27%                +  2%
YTD Deviance   -110%            -  1%                - 35%
May 00 Proj      428               96                   48 ([E+D]*B)
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  So far it's been a downward trend with no bottom in sight (although
in theory, I suppose '0' is possible...). This has caused a vicious
circle to develop, where the cast members note the trend and then don't
feel like showing up to do anything, since there's no audience, and so
when the potential audience pops in, they don't see anyone around, and
immediately leave. Or they enter the "magic circle" - character
creation, die to a city guard, go linkdead - in under 3 minutes.

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Marc Bowden - Soulsinger         Dreamshadow:The Legacy of the Three
  ryumo at merit.edu                                 206.246.120.2 3333
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