On an RPI mud, perhaps 90% do, I have no idea. RPI players represent a tiny fraction of mud players, however. My 10% number is purely a guess based on watching countless newbies in our games and other games where I was an admin before starting our games.
And if you seriously think that intelligent and sharp-minded tie directly to "read descriptions", well, that's your problem I guess. Personally, I rarely read room descriptions because I don't care what that section of highway, that section of field, that section of forest look like in particular. Key rooms I'm always interested in reading but, like most players, I've got no interest in reading yet-another-description-of-a-forest-room.
--matt
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