
Originally Posted by
FragFrog
To my knowledge:
1. Ascent branched of from Mangos / was built independently for a few years now. Differences between them are many, though some databases for instance are available for both. In my experience Mangos tends to be the more stable of the two, though it all depends on your environment.
2. There are in-game admin (and GM) commands. If you use Mangos you'll get a table 'command' in your mangos database listing all available commands as well as the GM level required to use them. I have not seen any ingame admin-panel, but that of course does not mean there aren't any.