308 answers (better than two years ago last questionnaire). Thanks to all. 1. How old are you? ------------------- 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? -------------------- Female : 3.90% Male : 96.10% 3. What is your marrital status? -------------------------------- Widdowed : 0.32% Divorced : 1.30% Married : 10.71% Couple : 15.91% Single : 71.75% 4. What is your profession? --------------------------- 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? ------------------------------- 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? ----------------------------------- 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% -------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- 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% -------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- 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? ------------------------------- 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? ------------------------------------------ 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? ------------------------------- yes : 39.61% no : 60.39% 10. How many 'darkie' characters do you own on MUME? ---------------------------------------------------- 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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? ----------------------------------------------------------- 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? --------------------------------------------------------- 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? ----------------------------------------------- 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? ----------------------------------- Awful : 0.32% Bad : 5.19% Correct : 10.71% Good : 53.90% Excellent : 29.87% 16. Opinion about Mume management? ---------------------------------- Awful : 0.32% Bad : 7.79% Correct : 29.22% Good : 50.32% Excellent : 12.34% 17. In what position do you rank Mume? -------------------------------------- (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? ---------------------------------------- no : 49.03% yes : 50.97% 19. Do you play other muds than Mume? ------------------------------------- yes : 32.14% no : 67.86% 20. From where do you play at Mume? ----------------------------------- 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'? ------------------------ Never : 4.55% Rarely : 21.10% Often : 31.17% Sometimes : 31.49% Always : 11.69% 22. What kind of Client do you use? ----------------------------------- 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? --------------------------------------------- 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.