We're a prolific bunch!

[Avery]

I'm a bit surprised how popular blue is and how comparatively lean we are on browns.  Does Triad work to a particular 'ideal' colour ratio?

Thanks, Suzee.

Yeah, I honestly expected to have fewer blues than browns!

[Miriah]

I am thinking that because of Thread and the fact that Pern is an agrarian society, it makes sense that the population is skewed to the younger. People work to hard and/or are put on harms way too often to make to old age.

Or because our writers prefer to write sexy young characters - or at the most sexy middle-aged characters.  :geek:

I like sexy older characters.

*darts eyes* You can always find a few new wrinkles.

[Heather]

Wow! Do we really have that many bronzeriders?? Doesn't seem like it ICly lol!

[Jane]

And another one you asked for. This is a census of all personas by age:

[table:wi45mva7][tr:wi45mva7][th:wi45mva7]Age[/th:wi45mva7][th:wi45mva7]Count[/th:wi45mva7][/tr:wi45mva7][tr:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]0-10[/td:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]17[/td:wi45mva7][/tr:wi45mva7][tr:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]11-20[/td:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]111[/td:wi45mva7][/tr:wi45mva7]
[tr:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]21-30[/td:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]49[/td:wi45mva7][/tr:wi45mva7][tr:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]31-40[/td:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]51[/td:wi45mva7][/tr:wi45mva7][tr:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]41-50[/td:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]15[/td:wi45mva7][/tr:wi45mva7][tr:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]Over 50[/td:wi45mva7][td:wi45mva7]12[/td:wi45mva7][/tr:wi45mva7][tr:wi45mva7][th:wi45mva7]Total[/th:wi45mva7][th:wi45mva7]255[/th:wi45mva7][/tr:wi45mva7][/table:wi45mva7]

I'd like to assume that the big 'bulge' in the 10-20 ages is all 13 Turn old apprentices (of which I contribute one) but I have the feeling it's teens / weyrlings / personas of Impressionable age.

Do those figures come out in 10 Turn groups, Suzee, or can you access them for every age?  I'd like to graph them in individual ages if you can email me that data.

This is so much fun!

[Amanda N]

I think we should keep in mind that while the colour percentages are skewed in the wrong direction for what they _should_ be on Pern, we're focusing on playable characters rather than the entire population.  ;-)

[Jane]

I think we should keep in mind that while the colour percentages are skewed in the wrong direction for what they _should_ be on Pern, we're focusing on playable characters rather than the entire population.  ;-)

I don't see that as much with dragonriders - with their freedom of movement and association and Triad's disinclination to put out working rosters for them so they do seem to be having endless free time only ever disturbed for the purposes of mating flights ... Why would a bronzerider be more playable than a brownrider?  When you get the blueriders I can see that the relationship options can then be drawn from a wider pool of characters (and writers) so they might have an advantage over brownrider when choosing a dragon colour.

However, in a Hall situation there are rosters and schedule and, for instance, the Harper Hall harper apprentices have such long days and so little free time that I think they'd be quite difficult to write for so a journeyman would give a better option.  I would expect journeymen and masters to be over-represented in Halls.

[Paula]

It's  been tried in past, Jane, creating schedules and duty-rosters for wings and wingriders...people just ignored it so it was dropped.  Characters were still lounging around with "endless freetime" when they should have been sweep riding or on watchduty.

[Heather]

Well ladies, any time you want to write dragonriders or others doing their real jobs I would love to