Is Imperator based on a new game/graphics engine?
Nope, we are still committed to using NDL’s GameBryo graphic rendering engine (the same one that powers Dark Age of Camelot) and the DAoC Game Engine (that does everything else). The beauty of this is that as DAoC is improved during the development of Imperator, Imperator will reap the benefit and as certain improvements are coded for Imperator, DAoC will see them. As of this writing, this is already happening.