It's been a long time since I've even read anything on this forum, let alone posted. I stumbled across this while trying to find info about Shards. Because, much to my surprise, I've found a living Shard! I thought they were all shut down, and none had been resurrected. Well, anyway, I'm about to join a Shard for the first time ever, and here I am seeing people arguing about how best to switch between shards. Plural?! OMG!!! I'm so excited I can barely contain myself! I have no idea how best to solve the problem permanently, but here is what I'm going to do. I'm going to back up my UCC, with the stuff I want, etc., THEN I'm going to apply the patch for connecting to the one shard I know how to get on. Then I'll back up whatever changed to a completely different archive. If, for some reason, I decide to connect to some other shard, I'm planning on replacing the current shard stuff with that earlier shard-less offline backup, and patching for the other shard. Then backup that into a completely separate archive. I have no idea how well this plan will work, I still might wind up with a huge amount of data being duplicated with only very slight differences, I dunno. But while you are all trying to figure out some kind of multi-shard thing, I'm going to be doing this.
I did have an idea, however, just now, about using some kind of KI/Nexus patch to connect to a shard. Let the system be offline until you go to the Nexus, and select a shard to connect to, and then everything gets brought online with that shard.... I dunno, it's probably a stupid idea. Have fun hashing it out.
So far my plan is working great, the patch only needed 9 megs of space, the archive shrunk the changes down to about 2 megs. That's it. Now I'll see if it runs. Well, the patched client runs, and downloads updates, etc. I'll get back to you once I actually start PLAYING, sheesh.
.shorah gah bigtotee b'shehmtee
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