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Jazuela · 10-23-2007, 08:55 AM

Well I started with Gemstone. When I first started playing the server would crash whenever there was more than 50 people playing. Then they fixed that, and the server wouldn't crash til there were over 100. It kept improving until they "went internet" and we found ourselves with over 1000 people playing at any given moment. For me, THAT was a large game. I stopped playing and went somewhere else where there weren't that many people either, and eventually it was usually around 60 at peak time (8-11 PM EST), and less than 10 at the furthest off-peak time (3-6 AM EST). For me, that was small. Then I went to another game where the average "who" would number 40, most of the time. I consider that small as well.

For me, anything that's "significantly" smaller than the largeness of GS, even currently with their average of around 600, is small. If they are only 10% of that, then they're small.

10-23-2007, 08:55 AM	#13
Jazuela Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: New England Posts: 849	Re: Love of Small MU*s Well I started with Gemstone. When I first started playing the server would crash whenever there was more than 50 people playing. Then they fixed that, and the server wouldn't crash til there were over 100. It kept improving until they "went internet" and we found ourselves with over 1000 people playing at any given moment. For me, THAT was a large game. I stopped playing and went somewhere else where there weren't that many people either, and eventually it was usually around 60 at peak time (8-11 PM EST), and less than 10 at the furthest off-peak time (3-6 AM EST). For me, that was small. Then I went to another game where the average "who" would number 40, most of the time. I consider that small as well. For me, anything that's "significantly" smaller than the largeness of GS, even currently with their average of around 600, is small. If they are only 10% of that, then they're small.