I'd be in favour of a hybrid type shard, with the best parts of AOS (....trying to think of some....er......oh yea, custom housing

) mixed with the simplicity and fun of pre aos.
But yea, as Rorschach said, if they don't have data from "back then", they need only look at the coding from a certain shard emulation software, they've done a pretty good job from what I know.