[MUD-Dev] Aetolia

[Koster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Mihaly
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 12:31 AM
> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Aetolia

> I'm pleased to announce that Achaea LLC is going to be opening a
> second version of Achaea. This in itself is hardly interesting
> news as the shard model is well-established. The difference,
> however, is that we're going to develop them on divergent paths,
> so as time goes on, the two worlds will become more and more
> different. [snip]

> I'm wondering if anyone knows of any commercial worlds that have
> cloned themselves and then done divergent development. I'd love to
> check them out and see what went wrong and what went right. Thanks
> in advance to anyone who can point me towards such a world.

Bunches.

UO diverged out the Abyss and Siege Perilous. Abyss was a PvP server
that included a bunch of special rulesets. Siege Perilous was a
"hard shard" with many rule changes (reduction in teleportation,
changes to economy, etc).

EQ diverged out a couple of PvP models. One was a PvP server and the
other was a team-based PvP server.

AC has a PvP server.

Dark Ages was based originally on a Korean game. I'm sure Dave can
speak more to this one, but he was discussing its divergence from
the original just a few days ago here on this list.

-Raph
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