How new players find us.

[Belenos]

Please  take the accent side discussion to another thread.  It's a valid discussion, but I'd rather this thread not get so derailed.

[Mockingbird]

"from charlie"

thanks charlie

My pleasure.

[Belenos]

For June 2008, 143 entries

• - Escape Pod podcast
• - No Reason Given
• - wintin
• - topmudsites.com
• - google
• - Word of mouth.
• - search[D[D[D[D engine
• - Something Awful
• - google
• - Mentioned on Escape Pod
• - mudconnecter
• - internet
• - a lot of people
• - Escape Pod
• - tms
• - googled best MUD's and looked through MUDranking sites and read about various MUD's.
• - My friend
• - roommate
• - mudconnector.com
• - friend
• - Top MUD sites
• - Top MUD sites
• - TOP MUD SITES
• - friend
• - No Reason Given
• - reddit.com
• - REDDIT
• - reddit.com
• - s
• - a friend plays almost everyday and i decided to try it out
• - internet
• - mudconnector
• - MUD Reviewing Site
• - My friend
• - I heard about it from one of my friends
• - Via friends.
• - Google post apocalyptic MUD
• - i [3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[Dknew it from topmudsites.com
• - google,.com
• - Wikpedia, while searching for permadeath muds.
• - From a podcast network called Escape Pod
• - Ubuntu Forums
• - A friend from my DnD group.
• - Through wikipedia surfing
• - topmudsites.com
• - topmudsites.com
• - MUD list
• - No Reason Given
• - From my wife, who learned of Armageddon from a current player.
• - I was reading reviews of muds and found it mentioned in a review in TopMudSites.com
• - website
• - a friend
• - Mudmagic.com
• - From your mother!~!!!! would u believe it? she takes it squarely in the ass
• - ok
• - use to play 5 years ago. Total newbie again but that crackageddon...
• - wikipedia
• - I searched the Web for interesting MuDs
• - Top Mud Sites
• - Wikipedia
• - from a friend
• - A friend
• - k
• - Friend who plays.
• - my brother said there is good roleplay here and i was tired of my current game
• - i-net
• - Mud Connector
• - SA Forums
• - Checked a mud connector for a new DIKUMUD
• - internet (got interested in telnet)
• - Mud Connector
• - I heard about Armageddon from another player.
• - Through TOPMUDSITES.com
• - RPImud.com
• - net
• - from [C[C[ Top MUD website
• - [C[C[C[C[Csimply looked around on the web
• - surfing
• - randon mud link
• - ISBW podcast
• - No Reason Given
• - Google
• - Google
• - B
• - googled "low fantasy mud"
• - internet
• - Used mudconnector looking for games similar to the one i used to play and chose to try Armageddon.
• - It is interesting.
• - a friend
• - Current player
• - google
• - http://www.online-games.net/newmuds.html
• - RPGcodex.com
• - It is listed on the RPIMUD Network
• - Just picked it out of a list
• - random
• - No idea. A long, long, long, time ago. TMS maybe?
• - mudconnect.com
• - [censored]'s Brother
• - A friend from work suggested this game to me.
• - My friend told me about it
• - Top mud sites
• - I did[C[C a google search for 'roleplay-emphasised' MMO.
• - From a friend at work.
• - my friend chris told me and got me interested
• - google
• - Searching around mudconnect
• - Bored of Wow, Googling to see if people even still PLAY Muds.
• - wEBSITE
• - Online website
• - topmuds
• - A friend referred it to me.
• - google
• - WinTin.Net
• - Searching on google
• - RPIMUD Network
• - From a friend.
• - random mud search
• - A friend referred it to me.
• - google search
• - friend
• - friend
• - A friend
• - No Reason Given
• - From googling 'RP MUD'.
• - No Reason Given
• - on an internet forum
• - Friend
• - [censored]'s Friend
• - I heard of it from google
• - No Reason Given
• - No Reason Given
• - Top Mud Sites
• - [censored]s friend
• - Friend
• - Friend
• - I learned about Armageddon from a player at goand.net
• - I was looking up different MUDs on google, and found this one. That's about it.
• - friend
• - [censored]
• - mudconnect
• - Friend
• - inventory

[Gunnerblaster]

• - From your mother!~!!!! would u believe it? she takes it squarely in the ass

I say we hunt this guy down.

143 entries for june? If we're getting so many entries, why doesn't it really show on the playerbase?

[mansa]

• - From your mother!~!!!! would u believe it? she takes it squarely in the ass

I say we hunt this guy down.

143 entries for june? If we're getting so many entries, why doesn't it really show on the playerbase?

http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,30883.0.html

That's probably a few reasons why people leave.

[Gunnerblaster]

http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,30883.0.html

That's probably a few reasons why people leave.

So the problem isn't getting players, it's keeping them.

[manonfire]

http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,30883.0.html

That's probably a few reasons why people leave.

So the problem isn't getting players, it's keeping them.

That's always been the problem.

[Gunnerblaster]

That's always been the problem.

Yeah... I'm feeling a bit slow. I knew that.

Ugh. It's one of those days.

[FuSoYa]

- brandonempting

I doubt he stayed but hey... at least I tried.

Brandon

[Vanth]

January 2009:

Friend who plays: 46
Top Mud Sites: 16
Mud Connector: 13
No Reason Given (left blank): 10
Google/Web search: 8
Wikipedia: 5
Old Player Returning: 3
New Staff Accounts: 4


The rest:

- ubuntu forum
- mud games online
- Totse forum
- forums
- MudQuest
- quit
- Top Mud list
- Website
- Other RPI Muds Forums
- shit
- sjgrtoc
- website
- showed up in wintin.net preloaded mudlist
- Zmud listing/online search for a new MUD
- i dont know
- mud lists
- youtube
- Readng the site
- aehtskc
- your moms vagoo
- who
- top 10 muds
- Saw a post on an online forum in a gaming topic.

[FantasyWriter]

Did you mean 2009, Vanth?

[Cavaticus]

- your moms vagoo

This response is way down from previous years. Somebody's mom has a vagoo way past its prime.

[Vanth]

February 2009:

Friend who plays: 29
Top Mud Sites: 16
Mud Connector: 9
No Reason Given (left blank): 10
Google/Web search: 11
Wikipedia: 3
Old Player Returning: 4



The rest:

- I didn't. I just randomly picked it
- gssxynf
- I was browsing the internet.
- help top40
- online forum
- in game
- in game
- Wintin
- I was scrolling through the list of muds in Zmud and found this one.
- banana
- d
- fu
- IRC
- IRC
- I was looking for a new game, my cousin tried MUDs when he was younger and I wanted to give it a try
- from an RPG gateway
- your mom told me. in bed.
- nom
- I heard about it in the MUDLIST list.
- MUD site.
- on yahoo answers
- it was an accident
- Found out from a MUD directory.
- random find today now
- Forum
- web

[Vanth]

Did you mean 2009, Vanth?

Yes.

[Vanth]

March 2009:

Friend who plays: 30
Top Mud Sites: 28
Mud Connector: 13
No Reason Given (left blank): 9
Google/Web search: 12
Wikipedia: 1
Old Player Returning: 5



The rest:

- cmud list
- From sites about MUDs.
- website
- On the Ubuntu Forums during a MUD Client Discussion.
- TopMudList Forum
- irc chat
- On a ICE forum
- something awful forums
- IRC
- y
- A forum. A forum that described in great detail how amazing this game sounds, to be specific.
- The mass amounts of praise referred me.
- [C
- [Ainternet
- internet
- I reaserched it on the internet
- fuck off
- RG
- Mud search.
- Cat Rambo article on Fantasy Magazine www.darkfantasy.org
- akuitdi
- From the SomethingAwful forums. There's a thread in the Games SubForum simply titled "MUDs!" and it came highly recommended.
- qkoxqjn
- other
- Rahl
- site list
- Top 100 Site
- Mud listing
- From another website.
- skills
- heard of it
- mud site
- ubuntu forums

[Vanth]

April 2009:

Friend who plays: 32
Top Mud Sites: 23
Mud Connector: 40
No Reason Given (left blank): 14
Google/Web search: 16
Wikipedia: 4
Old Player Returning: 2



The rest:

- whlhlcn
- From a fellow Eegra forum user.
- thkfkpu
- ldaldaldaldalda
- majeek
- santa clause told me
- ptpnbca
- On some godforsaken rpg forum. Randomly.
- [3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~came across it while researching the biblical term "armageddon
- web
- Through a person that recommended it to me on gaiaonline.com when I was searching for good MUDs.
- Found it whilst looking up another MUD
- [3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~[3~
- guugl
- wintin.net
- a friends posting on facebook
- WEb
- Internet
- From a Facebook friend.
- ToP forms
- IRE forms
- n
- connect
- i was just looking around for a mud game i might like. ive never played before and it sounded fun
- l
- l
- silverhand
- mud.adventmud.org
- forums.somethingawful.com
- a piece of paper in a trash can that no one wanted to look at ever again because it was dumb and evil and all of the above
- I read about it in some article about perma-death in MMO games.
- soi
- dunno
- top 10 muds
- CMUD
- It was listed in the built-in Wintin.net list
- in a dream
- LANslide in oakdale califoni[C[[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[C[California
- MOPGD.com
- skills
- quit
- searching for a free MUD. Found a review.
- Internet forum
- N
- Cat Rambo's personal website
- help faq_1
- mud listing
- ubuntu forums
- OOnline Game
- website
- Forums
- Forums.

[Vanth]

May 2009:

Friend who plays: 37
Top Mud Sites: 15
Mud Connector: 36
No Reason Given (left blank): 19
Google/Web search: 9
Wikipedia: 4
Old Player Returning: 1



The rest (there were a lot of people who listed multiple reasons this month):

- a whale's vagina
- ZMUD
- zMUD list of games
- advertisement
- Top Mud List
- On mudconnector, and mentions on the Something Awful forums.
- From a friend, also mudconnect
- i played a MUD once in HighSchool, and enjoyed it. now, 8 years later i decided to look them up again, and chose from a list of the most popular muds.
- Looked
- a mud list site
- By playing SoI or Shadows of Isildur, a similar RPI based MUD I eventually got information on this MUD.
- internet
- dwarf fortress forum
- Dwarf fortress forum[ [m, in a rp games discussion.
- [C[[C[C[C> bay12games forumeast
- Bay12 games forums board Other Games
- Dwarf Fortess Forum
- Codex Writer's Group
- Bay 12 Games Forums
- Bay12 Forums(Dwarf fortress =])
- internet
- mudconnect.com and old time memories
- mudconnector, topmudsites, zuggsoft.com
- I'd read about it at fora; I'm afraid I don't recall where.
- Bay12 forums.
- The net.
- Through a thread over at bay12games.com
- Other games forum at the bay2games forum.
- Bay12 Forums, through a current player
- Ask.com
- I heard from a gaming forum.
- On a forum.
- net
- df forum
- zmud
- Bay12Games forums
- l
- dwarf fortress forum
- recommendation in a forum
- Referral from platyers of another RPI MUD
- SomethingAwful
- Raving reviews, mudlists, also I am a past player.
- An online site directed me to you
- Sanvean's Youtube - but I played here in 1994-1995
- MUD ratings site.
- I forget
- website
- Heard about it on Something Awful forums, in the MUD thread.
- score
- Wintin
- I searched the internet for '[C[C "M.U.D. text-based games" ,and so I found this site.
- mud site

[Vanth]

June 2009:

Friend who plays: 37
Top Mud Sites: 16
Mud Connector: 29
No Reason Given (left blank): 19
Google/Web search: 13
Wikipedia: 1
Old Player Returning: 3



The rest:

- eieejei
- C
- I read about it in the [Cbay12games forums.
- A MUD site
- i searched the interwebs and found a block of cheese.
- www. bangbros. com
- while reading about DIKU mud.
- online
- just looking around
- ok
- many different general mudsites. topmudsite, mudconnector etc
- Internet
- qwtqjwtnqwtnoqtnwqownto[qnwt
- a MUD Website
- n
- Online
- Advertisements
- I was looking for a Rpg-Mud like Fallout or Desolation.
- quit
- through shadows of isildur which is now very boring
- fellow MUD
- MUD listing website underneath "Roleplying enforced"
- MUD listing website
- I found it on Wintin
- a passing rompart
- online-games.net
- Looking for an RP-intensive MUD, with some cool features.
-
- no
- a tiger
- Internet
- the voices
- MUD
- i was searching for roleplaying games with pregnancy allowed, and found it
- surfing

[Booshay]

- i was searching for roleplaying games with pregnancy allowed, and found it

what.

rofl.

[Kol]

I just like the whole 'your mom' rerences.....

seems like the same guy got bored once a month....

[Riev]

I generally assume that 90% of the "funny" reasons given are from current players looking to make a new account. Honestly.

[Kryos]

I've got a tangent, but relative to topic question to staff.  When these new accounts are made, and the syntax/style of preposterous answers are similar, do you disallow these accounts or watch them closely?  If I was venturing a guess on style alone, I'd say the same person asked for an account 3-4 times from what you've shown.  Then again, I suppose that applies to all new accounts, does staff give them a bit more of the hairy eyeball in general to observe suspicious behavior?

[Vanth]

I suppose that applies to all new accounts, does staff give them a bit more of the hairy eyeball in general to observe suspicious behavior?

Yes, but it doesn't usually require that much special effort on our part, as that sort of thing is rarely well-disguised.

[Kryos]

Excellent, and glad to hear it. 

[Vanth]

July 2009:

Friend who plays: 51
Top Mud Sites: 23
Mud Connector: 37
No Reason Given (left blank): 16
Google/Web search: 7
Wikipedia: 0
Old Player Returning: 8
New Staff Account: 2


The rest:
- ym
- wintin
- javascript development[H[D[C[A[D web page[D
- serendipity
- from rpgcodex.net
- online
- dsghhrgyhjhioxbs
- On the web
- f
- A builder working on Tears of Polaris MUD recommended it.
- internet
- Heard about it years ago, was bored.
- online
- ybosiac
- eiuptas
- from an internet forum
- iWhiskey
- exit
- boiifwm
- in a top site of mud clients
- From the web
- forums
- online
- Exploration.
- newgrounds
- Website
- down
- teh intrawebz!