Angband Gender Poll RESULTS

A highly unscientific poll, yes, but here's what we got:

I haven't done this rigorously yet but it looks like the response rate was
well under half of recent posters on rgra, the only ng to which the poll was
posted.

57 males and 8 females did respond (several by email rather than in the ng)
for a male:female ratio of a little more than 7:1.

The 'band most frequently mentioned was Vanilla (28) followed by NPP (13).
No other 'band got even ten (and this is with many posts mentioning several
'bands played).

Time in the game (all responders):

< 1 year *
1 - 5 years ***********
6 - 10 years ***************
11-15 years ******************
16-20 years **************
20 years *******

Time in the game for female players was <= 2 or >= 10 in all cases.
Five of the eight female players who responded have played for 15 years or
more.

It was great to see so many that have only recently found the game - it
gives me hope that Angband (and roguelikes in general) are still attracting
new players and won't fade away anytime soon.

--
John D. Goulden

I have been playing roguelikes since nearly the very beginning, starting
with Rogue and then Moria on a VAX in the early 1980s. I well remember the
day (if not the date) when the physics department sysadmin loaded Rogue from
the DECUS tape; it pretty much ruined my studies for the next several
months, as did Empire (which I still play today), Hobbit Chase (anyone else
in the ng play Hobbit Chase?), Galaxy, and Moria later on. This was at the
University of Oklahoma, where Moria was developed, but I didn't know the
developers then (or now) and don't know if we got it on our VAX any sooner
than the first DECUS distribution. I have never won Moria - best effort was
a level 33 char, then other issues such as my thesis got in the way. This
was a heartbreaking loss and I kept a printout of the tombstone on my office
wall for many years. The number one killer of my Vanilla chars that make it
through stat gain is the Tarresque. I've had two - count 'em, two, out of
frog knows how many - non-cheating characters go nearly all the way; Sauron
got one, Morgoth got the other. I've since learned a lot more about how to
beat the big guys, but haven't yet had a non-cheat char live long enough to
put it to the test (current hopeful is a half-elf ranger, done with stat
gain but still lacking good deep-dungeon gear).


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