Welcome to The Deep Island Shard!

[mig]

Mig here game is stuck fetching player,i have sent emails and pm,no response to either.

[diafero]

Sorry for the delay -- it's been pretty busy weeks around here. Let me
just copy my reply, maybe it's helpful for others.

Anyway, all I can do here is guessing. Being stuck at "Fetching player"
indicates a network issue. Frequently such problems are caused by
so-called "security suites" that include something like a "personal
firewall". Many of these are rather lacking in quality, and they tend
to break the network in more or less subtle ways. Uru's networking is
somewhat strange, so frequently those bad firewalls fail to handle it
and/or outright block things.
So if you have such a "security suite" installed, try to see whether
you can add some kind of exception to allow Uru unrestricted network
access (in particular, you need to do this for the "UruExplorer.exe").
Alternatively, try disabling the network protection / firewall temporarily.
Windows actually contains a firewall on its own, so you wouldn't even
need the other one -- if the security suite doesn't disable the Windows
firewall, which many do. That's rather ironic, considering that the
Windows firewall is also providing better protection than most of the
others...

If you *don't* have such a product installed on your machine, I am not
really sure what else to suggest. Maybe your router is acting up, or
maybe it's your internet service provider. You could try asking in the
forums; there's more people there, so they are more likely to have an idea.

[J'Kla]

The Firewall may even be an embedded hardware firewall actually on the router firmware.

I personally prefer this hardware Firewall to the software versions as I feel it gives me more control.

[chloe]

Hi, I just started playing Deep Island and enjoying the experience very much. I've come across a few linking books when clicked on give me a message which says "not available on this pc or shard". Is there a way to add them to the game so I can access them?

[Chuckles58]

Chloe, it is possible that the ages you can't link to are those you need the files for (Myst V Ages, Crowthistle).

[chloe]

Chloe, it is possible that the ages you can't link to are those you need the files for (Myst V Ages, Crowthistle).

How would I get those files? I'm really new at this so forgive my ignorance.

[Deledrius]

Unfortunately, they must be purchased separately.

[pithana]

Hello,
Someone kindly explained to me that there are fan ages! And so many of them. Books books books! Thanks for all that. Maybe I can dust my 3D skills off now (haven't done much for 15 years), but this is somehting worth working on.

[J'Kla]

If you are looking at using Blender to build ages you need to investigate Korman 0.06 on this forum.

There's also a load of information on the Guild of Writers Wiki

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Korman 0.07
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