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[Citizen Kane]

[ndemeter]

Hey, I'd love an invite to Wave.

[krystyn]

nicko, pm me your preferred email address, and I will send one along!

edited to add: I finally got the fireflies for my Relto. I just have to make sure not to turn on the rain, when the time comes.

People were saying the physic were more difficult this time around, like when you have to move objects around to rest on weight plates or get fishing traps to rest properly between ledges of rock, but so far, it's been fairly easy to get stuff worked out. I remember in the Gametap incarnation not only having weird physics glitches, but audio would loop, as well. I would have tumbling rock noises, looping over and echoing until I signed out and signed back in again! Oy!

Much better now - the server is sweetly fast, and I am enjoying taking my time getting everything. Gira and Kemo are done. All that's left for the pillars is Kadish, which is difficult, puzzle-wise, but also extremely compelling for me, story-wise. Fascinating concepts are introduced in Kadish Tolesa about Writing Age Books and what Yeesha is able to do that no one else can. Good stuff.

[spaceboy]

So, I've been out of Cavern for a while, and I'm getting ready to venture back in the next day or so. Anyone else still playing?

[krystyn]

I have not been to the Cavern in a couple weeks, but things have gotten a little less busy in my life in the past few days, so I hope to return there soon!

I have marker missions to run! And I haven't even cooked a single pellet yet!

Also, I am wondering how big my Relto tree is now.

[catherwood]

I've been visiting the Cavern less and less each week. Last weekend I did finally start baking my first batch of pellets, then got bored. I also have only 2 or 3 of the 4 pod ages done -- but i cannot remember which ones! Then I was using the pod portal calculator but realized too late that my computer was an hour off. *sigh*

I decided to do the free trial intro of MagiQuest Online instead. I had almost enough fun to justify buying the next chapter for the next time i'm bored.

[orbit8]

Myst Uru Online

[catherwood]

Re: Myst Uru Online

[krystyn]

I got a hankering for the Cavern, and so I tried to connect to Uru the other day.

Well, it had been a while, and my patcher was very, very out-of-date. So much so that the patcher just hung there, not updating itself.

I ended up having to re-install the .exe from their links page (not a strenuous process, I will say), and then I was up and running again.

So, if you have trouble with the patcher just sitting there, it may be versioned so old it just can't hook to the newer ones. Do a re-install, and it will re-synch all the stuff you've previously downloaded, and update it.

My tree in my Relto is getting quite tall! I also still need to find all the calendar sparklies.

Work is so busy, but I hope to keep visiting again soon.

[catherwood]

I think there was a bug with the patcher such that it would "just sit there" after successfully updating, but the solution was simple: After the update completes, cancel/exit the program AND kill the process from your Task Manager; then restart Uru.

The calendar sparklie in Minkata is still missing, as far as I know. It is a known bug with no work-around.

I myself have finally started down the path for installing fan-created Ages. I have some of the pieces working but not all of them, and I've had some minor glitches in the procedure. My expectations were not high, so I was pleasantly surprised by a few things I've seen so far, but nothing major or awe-inspiring to report yet.

[krystyn]

I did the cancel-then kill task-then restart the patcher thing, and it didn't work.

Only re-installing the .exe did. Weird, yeah?

[catherwood]

I haven't been "in cavern" in months. *sigh*

But here's a cheery sequence of web comics to warm my heart:

RealLife rediscovers URU (four total, Jan.3 - Jan.6)

[catherwood]

bump for some news, related to open source and user-generated content:

in-cavern announcement "Illusions in the Cavern"



OoC announcement "The Hood of Illusions"

[catherwood]

MOULa source code available

[catherwood]

new trail -- not.