<- @@index|Back to Index@@ ##3 === ABOUT Aethyra === ##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.