2009 MRO Player Survey

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Average player age: 21
Average player height: 5’8” (173 cm)[/ul]
We’ve got 10 people in high school/graduated, 20 in college/haven’t graduated, and 6 college grads. Most common major: artsy things (9), followed by business management (3), education (2), psychology (2), and bio chem (2).

Where we live:


US state abbreviations can be found here. Number of Canadians who failed at answering the survey: C-1, where C = Uncool Canadians + Meld’s player. For shame, Canada-minus-Meld.

What we speak:


Omitted: English. If you’re reading this, I trust you understand why. Also: More people are studying Elvish than Italian. Also also: Pig Latin. Aren’t we all...

When we’re online:


To convert from GMT+0 to your timezone: just add/subtract the x from your own GMT+/-x. If you don’t know your time zone, click here. US Central, you’re GMT-6. And yeah, that’s military time.

Trivia. 37% of Americans didn’t understand the survey question about GMT.

Average time on the Cbox per day: 6 hours

Average posts per day: 2.7

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28 people are on their first character; 19 are on their second; 6 are on their third; 1 is on her fourth.

Now presenting: why older players meh when newbs disappear!



Long-term-retention-wise, we’re doing pretty well:



Note: only each player’s oldest character is counted above (not their seconds/thirds/fourth). Hence the wonky total differences with the last graph.

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Where our characters are from:



What our characters look like:



Average ‘well dressed’ score: 5.2 (scale of 1 – 10, where 10 is full suits and ballroom gowns)

[/font][/b] X-Men: 5.9, Order: 4.6, Neutrals: 5.0[/ul]
Trivia. There’s no relation between fashion sense and a character’s good/evil score. MRO Villains, you disappoint me.


Average Good/Evil score: +1.6

[/font], Order: -5.2, Kabal: +1.1, Neutrals: +2.5

Evilest members: Dominic (+4); Syn and Roland (-10); Giant’s Bane (-3); Creia (-10)

Goodiest members: Cold Steel, Shin, and Kasumi (+8); Calley (+0.5); Sebastian (+6.5); Katrina (+9)[/ul]
Average character age: 102 (Median: 20. Sebastian, get your hooves out of my data.)


*Outliers (Slate and Sebastian) removed to make graph pretty. Hexamilleniarians have their ways of sneaking back in, though.

[/font][/b]. X-Men: 20; Order: 20; Neutrals: 20

Oldest members: Luke (28); Roland (34); Sebastian (6000); Jacen (32)

Youngest members: Dominic (16); Aura (15); Slate (2); Katrina, Carrick, and Ted (14)[/ul]
Average character height: 5’8”/173 cm

[/font] and Neutrals: 5’8”/173 cm [/b]. X-Men and Kabal: 5’7.5”/171.7 cm

Tallest members: Luke (6’2”/188 cm); Abyss (6’9”/206 cm); Giant’s Bane (6’9”/206 cm); Aleksandr (6’9”/206 cm)

Shortest members: Kasumi (5’0”/152 cm); Pix (4’7”/140 cm); Circe (5’2”/158 cm); Carrick (4’7”/140 cm)[/ul]
Trivia. 14 people are playing a character taller than their RL self; 9 handle characters of the same height; 17 people are playing characters shorter than themselves.

And now: Birthdays!


Trivia. Two-thirds of characters who don’t have a birthday on their profile are evil. This explains so much.


Trivia. Eight characters share birthdays: Verdy/Holo, Cafas/Tyranny, Aura/Alistair, and Martin/Mirror.

Yummm...



Thus ends our survey results. Thanks to everyone who contributed! If folks enjoyed this, we may just do it again next year.

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Interested in other years? Check out past surveys in Time Machines & Fools.

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Notes on data collection:
For the most part, IC data is based on the state of MRO as of Nov 20th, 2009, and RL data is as of December 10th, 2009 (had to wait for survey results to trickle in). Mirror was counted twice in matters of names and genders. Abyss was generally counted once, except in matters of names. People who exclusively use their real/code name in threads only added to the soup once. RL data gathered through a voluntary survey. Character data mined from character/attribute profiles by Calley and Abyss.