I know most people here use ascent + a version of NCDB with a few custom things in there, but I wanted to post this (informative) guide about emus and stuff...
History:
Ascent:
- Started out as wowd
- Emulator specified for WoW
- Many people break / broke their affero license (Meaning you have to give your source code if you have a public server) :|
- Most widely used emulator to play WoW(They get 4,000-8,000 people joining project every month, baised on forums and servers)
- A very good database team, NCDB
- Can hold around 4,000-5,000 players before laggs and crashes
MaNGOS
- Is an informative mmo project, not specified for one client
- Wowd derivative
- A very good database team, UDB
- Been around a very long time
- Not so widely used (They get about 3,000 - 7,000 people joining project every month, based on forums and servers)
- Can hold maximum of 1,000 players before laggs and crashes
Ludmilla:
- Wowd derivative
- Closed source
- Holds many players
- Commonly used in russian servers (by common I mean there are like 90% of places there, I only know of like 6 servers :| 1 of them is in the US)
- Gets around 50 people joining a month based on forums, and 3 or 4 major servers
- Uses up over 8 gigs of memory in maps and 4-5 gigs of ram to run!
- Wait 1 or 2 months after patch for them to update
Databases:
Ascent:
- Two big databases are NCDB, and Project Silvermoon
- Constantly updated every day
- Soooo many things get created out of those places
MaNGOS:
- Two big databases are UDB, and Project Silvermoon
- Constantly updated daily
- Very close to bugless in some aspects
Ludmilla:
- Only one database, from the creator
- Never updated almost
- Used to be good, now sucks
Eh, thats about all I can think of right now about those 3 things. Maby updated if anyone takes interest in this.