308 answers (better than two years ago last questionnaire). Thanks to all.
1. How old are you?
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Mean: 23.8539
Std dev: 5.42254
15-: 2.92% 20 : 7.79% 25 : 10.71% 30 : 1.95% 35+: 4.22%
16 : 1.62% 21 : 6.82% 26 : 7.47% 31 : 2.60%
17 : 5.52% 22 : 7.79% 27 : 3.25% 32 : 0.65%
18 : 3.90% 23 : 10.39% 28 : 4.22% 33 : 0.65%
19 : 3.90% 24 : 9.09% 29 : 3.25% 34 : 1.30%
60% of MUME population is in [20, 26].
2. What is your sex?
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Female : 3.90%
Male : 96.10%
3. What is your marrital status?
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Widdowed : 0.32%
Divorced : 1.30%
Married : 10.71%
Couple : 15.91%
Single : 71.75%
4. What is your profession?
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Retired : 0.00%
Family-Keeper : 0.00%
Other : 3.25%
Unemployed : 4.22%
Employed-Student: 12.99%
Employed : 34.74%
Student : 44.81%
5. In what country do you live?
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Brasil : 0.32% Israel : 0.32% Denmark : 2.60%
Latvia : 0.32% SouthKorea : 0.32% UK : 3.25%
NewZealand : 0.32% Switzerland : 0.32% Finland : 3.90%
Oman : 0.32% Australia : 0.65% Norway : 3.90%
Poland : 0.32% Iceland : 0.65% Canada : 4.55%
Taiwan : 0.32% France : 0.97% Estonia : 13.31%
Austria : 0.32% Germany : 1.30% Sweden : 18.18%
Holland : 0.32% Italy : 1.30% USA : 38.96%
Malaysia : 0.32% CzechRepublic : 2.60%
6. When did you start playing MUME?
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These results are very subjective. I found entries of people starting to play
MUME before MUME was born... I am inclined to think that people overestimate
their playing time.
By trimester, summary by year.
1992-1 : 1.62% 1993-1 : 5.84% 1994-1 : 3.25%
1992-2 : 2.92% 1993-2 : 3.90% 1994-2 : 6.17%
1992-3 : 2.60% 1993-3 : 4.22% 1994-3 : 6.82%
1991-4 : 0.97% 1992-4 : 3.25% 1993-4 : 5.19% 1994-4 : 4.87%
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1991 : 0.97% 1992 : 10.39% 1993 : 19.16% 1994 : 21.10%
1995-1 : 3.57% 1996-1 : 4.87% 1997-1 : 5.19% 1998-1 : 0.32%
1995-2 : 2.60% 1996-2 : 4.55% 1997-2 : 3.25%
1995-3 : 5.52% 1996-3 : 5.19% 1997-3 : 2.27%
1995-4 : 4.55% 1996-4 : 3.25% 1997-4 : 3.25%
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1995 : 16.23% 1996 : 17.86% 1997 : 13.96% 1998 : 0.32%
Mean: 27 December 1994 (quite exactly MUME's current half life).
Std Dev: 19.09 monthes.
7. How did you hear about MUME?
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Mail : 0.32%
Unknown : 0.97%
Internet forum : 0.97%
Magazine : 3.90%
Newsgroup : 4.55%
Another mud : 5.52%
Gopher : 5.52%
Other : 5.52%
WEB : 6.49%
Friend : 66.23%
8. How many characters do you own on MUME?
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0 : 0.32% 5 : 11.04% 10 : 6.49% 15 : 0.97%
1 : 6.49% 6 : 10.71% 11 : 2.60%
2 : 11.04% 7 : 6.49% 12 : 1.62%
3 : 15.26% 8 : 6.49% 13 : 0.00%
4 : 14.29% 9 : 4.55% 14 : 1.62%
Mean: 5.3961
Std dev: 3.16724
MUME's players database currently counts 5814 entries. We can then roughly
estimate MUME's global population to 1077 players.
9. Do you own an Ainur on MUME?
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yes : 39.61%
no : 60.39%
10. How many 'darkie' characters do you own on MUME?
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0 : 22.08% 4 : 11.69% 8 : 0.65%
1 : 19.81% 5 : 7.14% 9 : 0.32%
2 : 19.81% 6 : 3.25% 10 : 0.00%
3 : 12.66% 7 : 2.27% 11 : 0.32%
Mean: 2.26948
Std dev: 1.99727
This implies a mean of 3.12662 for 'whities & ainur'. Since 39.61% of the
players have a god, it then implies a 'whitie' mean of 2.73052. Although this
seems quite balanced in number of chars, it is to be considered that 22% of
the MUME population doesn't play 'darkies'.
11. How many 'legend' characters (level 26+) do you own on MUME?
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0 : 27.60% 4 : 6.49% 8 : 1.62% 12 : 0.65%
1 : 21.10% 5 : 2.92% 9 : 0.97% 13 : 0.32%
2 : 18.51% 6 : 4.55% 10 : 1.62%
3 : 10.71% 7 : 2.60% 11 : 0.32%
Mean: 2.2987
Std dev: 2.57644
12. How many 'darkie legend' characters do you own on Mume?
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0 : 57.47% 4 : 4.87%
1 : 20.45% 5 : 1.30%
2 : 9.42% 6 : 1.62%
3 : 4.55% 7 : 0.32%
Mean: 0.909091
Std dev: 1.41817
13. What is the highest mortal level you reached on Mume?
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Mean: 31.6591 (was 26.5 two years ago)
Std dev: 9.94256 (high, quite uniform in the 20-40 range)
14. How many hours do you spend on Mume weekly?
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Mean: 17.9416
Std dev: 14.0314 (high, different play styles)
6.82% of the MUME population spends 3 hours or less on MUME weekly. Considering
them as retired from the game (or board readers), the estimation of the active
(i.e., playing more than 3 hours a week) population drops from 1077 to 1003
players.
15. Opinion about Mume game system?
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Awful : 0.32%
Bad : 5.19%
Correct : 10.71%
Good : 53.90%
Excellent : 29.87%
16. Opinion about Mume management?
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Awful : 0.32%
Bad : 7.79%
Correct : 29.22%
Good : 50.32%
Excellent : 12.34%
17. In what position do you rank Mume?
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(1: Best mud, 2: Second best, etc)
5+ : 0.97%
4 : 0.97%
3 : 0.97%
2 : 7.47%
1 : 89.61%
18. Did you play other muds before Mume?
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no : 49.03%
yes : 50.97%
19. Do you play other muds than Mume?
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yes : 32.14%
no : 67.86%
20. From where do you play at Mume?
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Internet-Cafe : 0.32%
Other : 2.27%
School : 2.92%
Office : 10.06%
University : 30.84%
Home : 53.57% (Was 42% two years ago)
21. Do you suffer 'lag'?
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Never : 4.55%
Rarely : 21.10%
Often : 31.17%
Sometimes : 31.49%
Always : 11.69%
22. What kind of Client do you use?
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PMF : 0.97%
Tinyfugue : 3.90%
Other : 4.55%
Tintin : 12.01%
Cancan : 13.64%
Powwow : 15.26%
None : 23.05% (Was 42% two years ago)
zMud : 26.62%
23. What kind of Operating System do you use?
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Now Two years ago
VMS : 0.35% 3.61%
OS/2 : 0.71% 2.06%
Other : 2.48% 6.19%
MD-Dos : 3.55% 19.59%
Win3.x : 4.26% 8.76%
XWindows : 6.03% 7.22%
MacOS : 7.09% 7.73%
WinNT : 7.09% 1.03%
Unix-like : 25.18% 38.66%
Win95 : 43.26% 5.15%
(i.e. The final battle is between the Evil MS Empire and the Free Linux Rebels)
Thanks again for answering the questionnaire, next questionnaire next year ;-)
--Manwe.
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