[MUD-Dev] Society Scaling

[Brad Wyble]

rayzam writes:
> 
>     Actually, it does. But it's divided up. Most urban areas have that
> community feel, only by block or few blocks or whatnot. Hence places like
> Little Italy, Chinatown, Germantown [these are in the broad sense], or more
> diverse community driven areas by blocks, that don't have names like that.


Most?  Certainly not.  I live in a city suburb and I don't know the name
of my next door neighbors, let alone chat with them on a daily basis.  Yes
you can point to places like Little Italy, Chinatown, etc, but that's
doesn't necessarily mean these people know one another.  They just happen
to share a cultural heritage, and they are the exception in the maelstrom
of urban life.  There are just too many people, its overwhelming.
 
Yes one can have a global sense of being part of the urban community,
(e.g. I'm a Bostonian, I like the Red Sox and Sam Adams beer) but it's a
very far cry from the sense of community I had as a child in a rural
community when we had weekly barbecues with the whole neighborhood.  And
it wasn't just because I was young then vs old now, because my parents
were also involved in the community.  

And no I don't think is just a consquence of the internet giving us other
avenues of interaction that are unbounded by geopgraphy.  I imagine that 
New York was just as insular in 1950.  

So does the scale of a MMOG turn it into a different beast than the MUD?
Yes, I think so.

-Brad 



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