Hello Deep Islanders! First I must say how delighted and impressed I am with the fan-created ages and how much fun I have had exploring them. However, I am sorry to say that I can not play a few of them due to a mysterious and vexing server or connection error. This only happens with a few specific ages: Iceworld, Elsewhere, Lonirvan, and Snake River.
For these four ages, the same problem occurs: I select the age from the Restoration list in the Nexus, the book for the age appears, and when I click on the book I receive this error message: #05 (TERMINATED: Server LogOff. I have fast cable internet service (in San Diego, California), an excellent desktop computer, video card, monitor, cable modem, etc., etc., and when I ping the server, the results are t=189ms to t=206ms. I have tried changing video and other settings, turning off virus SW, etc. but still cannot get to these games.
This does not occur with any other ages (how many are there? 80? 90? 100?). I have spent many hours playing Myst/shards/fan-created ages, and I think my favorites are City of Dimensions, Elodea (ausgezeichnet!), and Relativity. I am disappointed that I cannot reach these four games.
I have many years of experience with computers (build my own), was on the Internet when it was Arpanet, wrote books about SW (all obsolete now!), and have been playing Myst since the 1990s. I am not trying to brag or be an "ugly American," I only want you to know that I know how tricky our beloved electronic devices can be. Perhaps as I enter old age I am missing or forgetting something. Can anybody please give me advice about solving this problem?
Andre/DASauer/UncleV