[MUD-Dev] Aetolia

[Matt Mihaly]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Koster, Raph wrote: 
>> -----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.

Yeah, but those aren't worlds that are being developed separately
are they? As I understand it, different areas, new skills etc aren't
really added in more than minor ways. We want to actually end up
with what can legitimately be called a different world/game
eventually. It's a lot more like the non-commercial MUDs that are
developed from codebases, except Achaea is far more developed as a
'codebase' (wouldn't really call it that, as it's a fully developed
world).

 
> 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.

Ah hah, that sounds like what I'm interested in. Say Dave, maybe the
whole list would be interested in hearing about how you decided to
take Dark Ages in a different direction, what drove that decision,
what kind of audience cross-over you've had, etc?

--matt

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