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diff --git a/data/help/about.txt b/data/help/about.txt index 79840ad6..812aad84 100644 --- a/data/help/about.txt +++ b/data/help/about.txt @@ -1,40 +1,17 @@ <- @@index|Back to Index@@ -##3 === ABOUT Aethyra === +##3 === ABOUT THE MANA WORLD === - ##2Aethyra (Ae)##P Aethyra is a 2D MMORPG, using the eAthena server - (an open-source clone of the commercial Ragnarok Online server). It - features expanding lands and community-made graphics, making for a - fun, free, open source community project. - - ##PAethyra started out as "The Mana Experiment," an experimental - test-server for community-developed content designed for The Mana - World which was put into action by Blame, Sanga, and Sertaline. - ##PSoon thereafter, it became evident that it was taking far too - long for the elitist development team at The Mana World to - implement good tested-content. They made excuses and treated the - long-awaited custom server TMWServ as the answer to all the problems, - and left the eAthena server (which The Mana World still runs on) - to rot. Many development team members lost interest in helping, and - the programmers forsook the eAthena server saying that it would - simply delay TMWServ progress for months to fix the simplest of - errors. In response to this, The Mana Experiment became a fork - project, and an official game server. - ##PTime passed, and more and more content was tested and implemented. - Soon, discussion began for a name. Aethyra was chosen, and the Game - you see now was setup. Content development has never been better, and - the staff never more motivated! Stay on the lookout for more exciting - Aethyra developments! - -##3 === Aethyra's Goal === - - ##PAethyra is a community driven experiment that utilizes eAthena at - its core with the end goal of getting its players as involved in the - process as much as possible. It's originally forked from The Mana - World when its developers came up with the idea of "Why should we - have to wait for an MMORPG game in development when we've already got - a great server setup here that does everything we've been promised - and more?" ##P As such, we are trying to implement as many functions - of eAthena as possible while creating our own in the process based - on what our players want to see. + ##2The Mana World (TMW)##P is a serious effort to create an innovative free + and open source MMORPG. TMW uses 2D graphics and aims to create a + large and diverse interactive world. It is licensed under the GPL, + making sure this game can't ever run away from you. + + The project includes the development of both a client and a server, + as well as the development of an online world. At the moment we're + making alpha releases of the client, while our server is in early + development. The eAthena free software Ragnarok Online server is used + until our own server has matured enough to replace it. Once ready, + we'll be making releases of our server too so anybody will be free to + set up their own server and start building their own online world. |