# MOO survey

Jackie Hamilton (kira@io.com)
Wed, 9 Jul 1997 09:16:57 -0500 (CDT)

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    On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Jason Nolan wrote:

    > This is an interesting idea... I'd like to share my moo project(s) with
    > interested people. But I'm paranoid... Jackie, you don't explain the reason
    > you're looking for this information. You're coming from a games company,
    > and I'm slightly suspicious of what this information might be used for.
    > Could you clarify your motives?

    I'm mainly interested in getting a feel for how widespread MOO is now, how
    many people participate on MOOs, and what the average MOO is like
    size-wise.  I'm interested just because, well, I'm interested :)  I like
    MOO, and run a moderately large MOO on my own time, not SJG-related.  And
    of course SJG has its Metaverse MOO which we've considered reworking to be
    based on our own game systems, but we've had concerns about whether to use
    MOO or something else.  I'm encouraged by the fact that so many people are
    using MOO, and that MOO appears to still be getting support (both from
    players and from the server dev. team).

    I'll be happy to post results to the list in a few days, if anyone else is
    curious.  So far only 11 people/MOOs have responded;  all of them are open
    MOOs (or semi-open with educational or professional), with an average of
    1000 players.  Most MOOs are seeming to fall into one of two categories:
    small/new MOOs with a 5-6 meg db and about 200-400 players, and the really
    BIG MOOs with 20+ meg db's and >2000 players.   (This doesn't count
    Lambda, which is bigger than anyone else anyway.)

    Thanks for all the info, and I'm still interested in hearing from everyone
    who hasn't responded. :)

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