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Burr · 04-26-2003, 10:45 AM

Not really. Obviously a mud needs people in all of those positions, but each of their duties do not necessarily require the same amount of effort put into "major innovations" to create a certain amount of interest among incoming players. Moreover, the preferences of individual players of the mud will vary: for instance roleplayers might tend towards the mud's world, while gamers might tend towards code. Finally, if great advances have been made in one aspect over the mud community as a whole, players may tend away from that aspect towards the others, even if the others aren't quite as important to them overall.

While you could look at each of those factors as a matter of importance to some specific goal, I'm not prepared to generalize those factors as overall importance just yet -- even if we were to assume that anything admin, builders, or coders do is a "major innovation". This poll only consider importance from a player's perspective. But what is important to a player is not necessarily what is important to the staff or to the mud community as a whole.

04-26-2003, 10:45 AM	#3
Burr Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 123	Not really. Obviously a mud needs people in all of those positions, but each of their duties do not necessarily require the same amount of effort put into "major innovations" to create a certain amount of interest among incoming players. Moreover, the preferences of individual players of the mud will vary: for instance roleplayers might tend towards the mud's world, while gamers might tend towards code. Finally, if great advances have been made in one aspect over the mud community as a whole, players may tend away from that aspect towards the others, even if the others aren't quite as important to them overall. While you could look at each of those factors as a matter of importance to some specific goal, I'm not prepared to generalize those factors as overall importance just yet -- even if we were to assume that anything admin, builders, or coders do is a "major innovation". This poll only consider importance from a player's perspective. But what is important to a player is not necessarily what is important to the staff or to the mud community as a whole.