[MUD-Dev] Morphable worlds, Reset based systems revisited

[Matt Mihaly]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Michael Tresca wrote:
> Ola Fosheim Gr=F8stad posted on Friday, November 01, 2002 5:37 AM
 
>> Matt, not to belittle your achievements, but Achaea doesn't have
>> lots of players... Some people do. And I assume a small tight and
>> stable community and unique world helps in that respect.

> I went to Achaea's web site today and saw 352 players online.
> That's a lot for a MUD.

In Ola's defence, I think he meant MUDs generally, in which case no
text MUD has a lot of players.
 
> BatMUD, which is not a small MUD by any means, had a 150 players
> online.  I know that Medievia is supposed to have nearly 1,000+.

They peaked at 607 yesterday.
 
> That's the only one huge MUD I know of.  In fact, I'm curious as
> to what the "most players" list is.  RetroMUD just hit 115
> yesterday and we were excited.

Dragonrealms and Gemstone III both peak at 1000 players+. Serious
props to them!
 
> So yes, by MUD standards, Achaea has a lot of players.

By text MUD standards at least (which is all that matters to the
discerning player, of course. Kidding. Don't flame me.)

--matt


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