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	On October 26, 2009, Kalder posted to the Notifications Board announcing the new lib. The post can be found archived here.		On October 26, 2009, Kalder posted to the Notifications Board announcing the new lib. The post can be found archived [[AROA (saved post)\|here]].

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=== Overview ===
AROA is the development name for a brand new custom mudlib developed
from scratch for the DGD driver. It is considered necessary for a number
of technical reasons including code maintenance and upgrades. Although
AROA is an acronym, the [[Wizards|wizardry]]
have not released the name that it stands for, in part because of
concerns for protecting the secrecy of some of the setting and storyline
changes that may be included. Players have referred to AROA as "A4", or
Astaria 4, continuing the progression from A1, [[A2]], and [[A3]], each
iteration marking significant changes in the game.

=== Driver concerns ===
The driver is a combination of interpretation layer and compiler which
serves as an interface in between the server's operating system and the
MUD's lib. The original driver Astaria was built upon is MudOS, heavily
modified over a period of years by Edison and renamed MUM. Because MudOS
is not actively developed, and because Edison has retired from the
[[Wizards|wizardry]], there is no actiive development on either MudOS or MUM
drivers.

The choice of DGD for the new driver was made in part because DGD is a
more technically advanced driver and in part because, unlike MudOS/MUM,
DGD still has a community of active development. Moving from a very
heavily customized lib to one much closer to off-the-shelf will also
enable the administration to apply patches, bugfixes, and version
upgrades cleanly.

=== Lib concerns ===
In the past, the [[Wizards|wizardry]] have been very vocal concerning a number of
limitations which serve to inhibit development. Among these are factors
such as the age of the original lib and driver, the selection of
unskilled coders to develop game elements, and historical game design
decisions which no longer reflect the direction that the mud's setting
and gameplay are desired to progress. The decision was made that it
would be less work overall, and yield a superior end result, to create a
brand new lib from scratch rather than trying to replace very large
portions of Astaria's deep underlying code or trying to retrofit
Astaria's setting and gameplay into an existing DGD lib.

=== Public announcements ===
On October 26, 2009, Kalder posted to the Notifications Board announcing the new lib. The post can be found archived here.

Excerpt:

Thanks to an outstanding and highly productive collaborative effort of the
staff members over the past few months, we now have developed a new core
mudlib which addresses a great many of these problems, and introduces a lot
of very significant new features that we've wanted for a long time, now --
both features that players would appreciate, and features to make the
coding aspect of our wizard jobs easier.

<br>
Kalder has repeatedly stated that because of the order of magnitude of
work involved in a project this large, it is impossible to give any
remote degree of accurate estimate in how long it'll take before the new
lib is playable or even testable.<br>
<br>
It has been confirmed by the [[Wizards|wizardry]] that plans are being made to
attempt to migrate data from the existing [[A3]] lib into the A4 lib,
although the amount of data that will be capable of being migrated is
uncertain. No official statements have been made as to how levels will
be handled, aside from that the staff does not want every player to have
to start back from level 1.

AROA - Revision history

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