Guild of Writers

As I'm sure many of you know, Microsoft is going to officially stop supporting Windows XP in 2014.
I actually did not know this, so thank you for the heads up. 2014 looks like such a futuristic date, until i do the math and realize it's barely two years away! Technically I'm running Win XP Pro ...

If I understood catherwood properly, he is speaking about a chart comparing the different versions of Uru, not all the Shards.
(psst, i'm a 'she'.)
My personal interest is not in a complete history of all shards, nor the umpteen versions of Uru, but a quick starter for someone dipping a toe into ...

When you are playing on the DI shard, your Uru client automatically downloads needed Ages from the data server. You don't use Drizzle. ...
... At some point, the on-line KI and off-line KI have been merged together so there is only one program to maintain, so it can be said that DI uses the off ...

I must be confused with some terminology. If Deep Island uses the Offline KI, then it is an offline (not mult-player) game, right? I don't think of that as a 'shard' in the sense of a live server where players can meet in the same space. If, on the other hand, 'shard' simply means any server, then ...

I like the idea of hearing vocalizations -- Yeesha begins speaking in D'ni before switching to English for us, so there is both precedent and unlocked potentional there. It lends itself well to the type of pattern-matching and exploration of the culture that good Myst puzzles are built on.

As one ...

I'm new to the GoW, but an old-timer in D'ni years. I have owned every iteration in the Myst series, and I have played Uru since the dawn of time. My housemate was in the first beta test group, so I have seen many variations of the cavern, but I have never installed the extra bits to view your ages ...