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Found some interesting reading about the maximum size of human social groups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeysphere

Basically, given our brain size, and compared to the social groups of other monkeys, our mean social groups -the people we could care about- would be around 150 (some read it as 150 top). And of course some have tried to study how the Dunbar's number applies in online games. In online games, it is said by some, looking at statistics from Ultima Online and the like, that the average actually is 45-60.

I wondered then about Cantr. You can't count guilds or town members because, well, we aren't typical one-main-character plus several mules players. More likely, it would apply to how many characters in total our own characters really care about.

I've got currently 14 characters (some of them just idling), and the characters that aren't only names for them -nor are long left behind- are in this distribution:

2 1 8 0 18 2 2 6 0 2 0 0 0 0

So that makes for me 41 characters mine currently care about. And yours?

1 (shes dead) - 3 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 11 (all are dead or gone) - 0 - 0

i think thats right, off the top of my head.

7-3-1-4-1-2-3-2-1-0-0-12-1-5

maybe more on that twelve and on the seven, but that seems right.

Seems mine is 42. Maybe that's what Douglas Adams was talking about ?

3 - 3 (might be more depending on the definition of "truly caring") - 1 (several dead) - 4 (also might be more) - 2 - 3 - 2 - 3 - 0 - 2 - 0

1

Discounting ones that have died;

2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0

5-5-1-1-2-1-1-1-5-1-6-4-0-1-8

1-1-0-0-3-1-2-5/6-1(this char doesn't care for the others because he cares way to much for that "1" so he hardly notices the others )-7-0-2-1-0-0

1-1-0-1-1-1-0-1-1-1-0-1-1-0-0

I wonder if those who are dying or I do not know if they are still live should be counted...

3, two of which are dead and one looks shakey.

I guess if you subjectively think a character is worth counting, that would be good enough. This isn't really "scientific" (at least not more than a Mythbusters episode ).

So we have got already: 41, 15, 42, 23, 1, 4, 42, 25, 10, 3

I think this topic will make for a good blog post (and a good excuse to mention Cantr).

0 - 1 - 2 - 6 - 1

But then this would increase as my characters get older...

7 2 2 3 (he is dead) 4 5 5 (he is dead) 6 9 15 0 5 (will proably change soon) 0 0 0 10 1

78, guess I care to much?

7-11-0-0-0-3-5-3-0-0-1-0-1-0-1

33

0-0

They're new.