[MUD-Dev] text based MUD Codebases, which one to pick?

[mirjam.eladhari at interactiveinstitute.se]

Hi, I'm in need of a bit of advice.

I'm looking for a text based MUD codebase suitable for testing stuff
in.  But there are so many of them and I'm afraid of:

  1 spending huge amounts of time staring at specifications/

  2 ending up trying one after another/

  3. getting really deep into one just to realize I chose the wrong
  codebase just because I didn't ask first.

/background

  I'm about to test and reiterate some components.

  I've been using the NEL engine (the one Ryzom uses, in beta now)
  for this earlier. I keep doing this, but I get bogged down in the
  graphics pipeline all the time. My scope is not to make a VW, only
  to test components in a generic frame of a VW. The practical
  context is a phd proj in computing science/game dev

What I'm looking for is a textbased MUD codebase that:

  - Could suit someone who feels at home with Java and C++

  - Is stable, simple and documented rather than has a lot of
  features

  - Has a component based architeture

I guess most ppl on this list have read Bartles book, where he has a
chapter on different types of codebases (where the perspective is
what type of game play paradigms is central) In those terms the
ideal for me would be a codebase

  - where there is an emphasis on role play, but still possibility
  to use adventure type event triggers

  - Where players can input content that is persistent, i.e. 'owns'
  the world to a large extent.

Would there be anything with a few of these criterias out there?
What favourite codebases do you have?
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