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DARK CASTLE [unclaimed]
telnet dcastle.org 23

Players now: no count (nothing here says why)
Reachable: 100.0% of the last 90 days

When people are on (UTC)
No hour of the week has produced a player count. 126 hours across the week have
no measurement yet. 42 hours across the week answered but produced no count.

  Mon — no count in any hour, 16 hours not measured, 8 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Tue — no count in any hour, 16 hours not measured, 8 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Wed — no count in any hour, 16 hours not measured, 8 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Thu — no count in any hour, 18 hours not measured, 6 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Fri — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Sat — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Sun — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable

  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 (3 Jun 2026 – 31 Aug 2026, UTC)
Probed in this range, and no player count could be read from any of it.

Reachable (last 90 days)
Reachable 100.0% of the 18 days we have measured. No day we measured was
unreachable. 58 days predate anything we measured. 14 days went unmeasured — we
were not watching.

  3 Jun – 30 Jul: 58 days not measured
  1 Aug – 14 Aug: 14 days not measured

Capabilities (0 of 1 disagree)
  MSSP       measured: NO      declared: -

Declared by the game
  codebase   DikuMUD  (measured, 4h)
  name       Dark Castle  (declared, 2w)

Connect screen
  [connect screen: 27 lines, text only]

  
     Based on DIKUMUD by M.Seifert, H.Staerfeldt, S.Hammer, T.Madsen, K.Nyboe
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  What name for the roster?

What changed
  2026-07-31  endpoint recorded as dcastle.org 23 (handshake)