Sorry I don't even know If I am asking this stuff in the right place! I'm a noob to this forum but pretty much bought all the Myst games (as far as I know) as they were released. In particular I have Uru and the D'ni POTS expansion.
At home I don't have access to broadband so I have never been involved in online Uru. I do have access at work and have in the past week gotten hold of Drizzle30 and set up my Uru stuff on my laptop with the OfflineKi etc. Mostly working ok although Drizzle30 seems to think OfflineKi v. 3.6.x is the latest version - presumably I have to somehow update that manually? (I've downloaded the latest 3.7.1 7z file but haven't done anything with it yet.)
The thing I've noticed wandering through D'ni is that I am coming across linking books and stones for places that aren't in the Drizzle list of fan ages so I'm assuming they are official ages of some kind only available through the various shards. (A shard being a specific server that you connect to which is running an online version of the game?) Presumably NeighbourhoodMOUL, KveerMOUL and KirelMOUL are a part of MOUL but where do all the others reside? The other links I have found so far are to Negilahn, Dereno, Payiferen, Testsonot, Minkata, Jalak, Eder Tsogal and Eder Delin. Which ages are found on which shard - is there a list somewhere? or am I wrong about how this works?
If I join a shard I guess it downloads the data for an age as I go. Is that data then available to me when I play offline?
I've tried searching for answers for some of this stuff without much luck so I hope someone can help point me in the right direction.