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AVATAR MUD [unclaimed]
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Players now: 33  (declared, 24m)
Reachable: 98.1% of the last 90 days
Longest outage: 10m

When people are on (UTC)
Busiest Tuesday small hours, 00:00–00:59.

  Mon — peak 239 at 08:00
  Tue — peak 185 at 00:00
  Wed — peak 44 at 01:00
  Thu — peak 44 at 16:00
  Fri — peak 43 at 23:00
  Sat — peak 43 at 23:00
  Sun — peak 44 at 01:00

  counted = we got in and read a number, including a measured zero
  uncounted = we got in and no number could be read
  not measured = we have no measurement for that hour

How many, over time (13 Jun 2026 – 10 Sep 2026, UTC)
Typically 39 on, peaking at 392, over 26 of 90 days. Up about 68% from the start
of the range to the end.

  13 Jun–19 Jun: not measured
  20 Jun–26 Jun: not measured
  27 Jun–3 Jul: not measured
  4 Jul–10 Jul: not measured
  11 Jul–17 Jul: not measured
  18 Jul–24 Jul: not measured
  25 Jul–31 Jul: not measured
  1 Aug–7 Aug: not measured
  8 Aug–14 Aug: not measured
  15 Aug–21 Aug: typically 39, peak 54, 6 days counted, 1 day not measured
  22 Aug–28 Aug: typically 39, peak 47, 7 days counted
  29 Aug–4 Sep: typically 39, peak 53, 7 days counted
  5 Sep–10 Sep: typically 38, peak 392, 6 days counted

  earlier: ?from=2026-03-15&to=2026-06-12&plain=1
  a week is summarised over the days in it we counted; a week with none says so

Reachable (last 90 days)
Reachable 98.1% of the 28 days we have measured. 1 day unreachable. 3 days
degraded — we got in and could not finish. Longest outage 10m (dns did not
resolve). 48 days predate anything we measured. 14 days went unmeasured — we
were not watching.

  13 Jun – 30 Jul: 48 days not measured
  31 Jul: 1 day degraded (handshake stalled)
  1 Aug – 14 Aug: 14 days not measured
  15 Aug – 16 Aug: 2 days degraded (handshake stalled)
  5 Sep: 1 day unreachable (dns did not resolve)

Capabilities (0 of 4 disagree)
  MCCP       measured: yes     declared: -
  MSDP       measured: yes     declared: -
  MSSP       measured: yes     declared: -
  MXP        measured: yes     declared: -

Declared by the game
  name       Avatar MUD  (declared, 24m)
  crawl delay -1  (declared, 24m)
  codebase   Merc  (measured, 24m)

Connect screen
  [connect screen: 26 lines, text only]

                      _----|         _ _ _ _ Welcome to AVATAR, a family-
                        ----|_----|   ]-I-I-I-[  friendly Medieval fantasy
    _ _ _ _ _ _ _----|      | ----|   \ `  ' /   kingdom.  Our site is now
    ]-I-I-I-I-[  ----|      |     |    |. ` |           located in Snikt's
     \ `   '_/       |     / \    |    | /^\|           subterranean cave.
      []  `__|       ^    / ^ \   ^    | |*||
      |__   ,|      / \  / ^ ^`\ / \   | ===|     Diku Mud created by Hans
   ___| ___ ,|__   / ^  /=_=_=_=\ ^ \  |, `_| Henrik Strefeldt, Tom Madsen
   I_I__I_I__I_I  (====(_________)_^___|____|____    Katjya Nyboe, Michael
   \-\--|-|--/-/  |     I  [ ]__I I_I__|____I_I_|   Seifert, and Sebastion
    |[] `    '|_  |_   _|`__  ._[  _-\--|-|--/-/          Hammer. Merc 2.2
   / \  [] ` .| |-| |-| |_| |_| |_| | []   [] |     originally created by
  <===>      .|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|        / \ Kahn, Hatchet, and Furey.
  ] []|` ` [] |_____________________|_______<===>     Extensive changes by
     _____  __ __   ____  ______  _____  ____              The AVATAR Team
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  Telnet: avatar.outland.org 3000                      Twitter: @AvatarMUD
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What changed
  2026-07-31  endpoint recorded as avatar.outland.org 3000 (handshake)