Well it looks like the site's first week has gone very well. Traffic to the old FUSS site and the old AFKMud site was less than stellar. So far, traffic to the new combined site has been about 5 times "normal" with only a slow drop off since the initial forum blitz. So it looks like a lot of the people who came by to check it out have stuck around, and some even registered :)

Kayle designed a new header logo for the site which looks really cool, though he plans on one that's better still. Definitely looking forward to that.

I had initially expected the merger to take weeks of piling through database entries to fix things, crawling around the AdminCP to get things smoothed out, and other hassles normally associated with such a large amount of data. But instead it took mere hours, which I was thrilled to death about. In the end, only a few fancy SQL queries and selective imports of the topic tables was all it took.

So if you've got an interest in Smaug at all and you haven't stopped by yet, please do! We'd love to have you. 

We're bringing you a delightfully detailed, yet easy to comprehend way of developing your character. Inspired by the original system from Star Wars Galaxies (the MMORPG), you will have great freedom in shaping the future of your character. We are very excited about it, and we know you will love it.