Phil was working with monolith for an updated MMORPG version.

I would imagine it would take a similar amount of hours to recode as it did to code in the first place.... perhaps fewer becuase of updated tools, more because phil, ken & dan were probably "inspired" and not double checking every thing they did against some original version.

It's a complex game, but less large than some of the current games, so it's a matter of getting the framework in place... that's the bulk of the challenge, IMHO. Then the plot points, backgrounds, etc. can be put in with relative ease.

Mark