The Emperor wears no clothes. And that's a good thing, because you can dress him however you want! That's NakedMud's goal. It provides a solid foundation on which you can build: and that building can all happen in Python if you want, which is quite a bit easier then having to fall back to C.

A solid, stable core is provided which handles networking, basic object types, and then persistance of data -- from here Python has been embedded and allows you to create all the game logic you need to be the kind of game you want to make. There's nothing to tear out and redo, because NakedMud is "from scratch" -- with the hard parts done already from you.