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Old 07-24-2012, 09:09 PM   #59
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Re: Can MUDs implement range/distance?

Since we've already necroed, derailed and ranted, why not some more OT? Besides, it's an interesting subject.

There's 250,000,000 Internet users in the USA (), and say around 50,000 mudders (just a seat of the pants guess really using charts). Of course some of those mudders are not in the USA but I'd guess the large majority of mudders are in the USA; let's say 35,000. That means about 0.00014 % of Internet users in the USA play muds.

About 1.4 million people in the USA cannot read ordinary newsprint with the aid of glasses () so I'd say that's the VI demographic we're talking about when we say 'blind players'. Let's say one million of them are on the Internet. That means using the figure calculated above that there are 140 mudders in our demographic. Surprisingly close to swamp's estimate .

Of course, that doesn't tell the whole story -- that any mud with an eye on its future should be looking for new players, people who have never played muds, and not tracked on mudstats. But it's always useful to know where you're coming from .
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