This update was a long time in the making, and as such, there are a host of new fixes and additions…including new fan content!

These include:

• Add Ages from Doobes.
• Add GNU and GPLv3 clothing items (t-shirt, long-sleeve shirt, fleece jacket).
• Allow downloading all game files directly from Gehn.
• Change the station on Zandi’s radio.
• Fix avatar not closing the Relto book upon link-in to Relto.
• Fix erroneous KI “blackbar” handles appearing on ultrawide resolutions.
• Fix erroneous whitespace prepended to Age names in the Nexus.
• Fix issue with unicode characters crashing the login dialog.
• Fix the “Bill” Visitor issue in the StartUp Age.
• Fix potential hang when connecting to an Age during the Link.
• Improve voice chat by using the Opus codec and increasing sampling rate.
• Restore link to Cyan’s Guild of Messengers Pub in Nexus.
• Lecture errant subsystems.

To get the latest version of Gehn Shard, simply log in to the shard as normal and the client will do the rest. If you haven’t signed up for Gehn Shard yet, you can find step by step instructions for Gehn in our guide to installing the shards.

Keep checking back here for more shard news! Congratulations to the GoW for another successful release!

Shorah and salutations to one and all!

As you can see, we’re back up and running at our new website, guildofmessengers.org! Be sure to change your bookmarks too, as the old site (guildofmessengers.com) is no longer valid…although if you’ve been by there lately, that’s quite obvious.

So why the new domain, you may ask?  A few reasons:

1. We let the ownership of the old domain lapse. It has been passed around by previous Messengers (such as Leonardo and Lyrositor) as previous owners moved on to other things. Due to inactivity and lack of interest, nobody picked it back up when it was for sale again. As such, an unrelated party snapped it up and now uses it to advertise some sort of gambling nonsense. So if you thought we’d ventured into more seedy territory with that, we’re happy to report that’s not the case!
2. The “org” extension brings us more in-line with other Myst-related websites, such as our friends at the Guild of Writers. Plus, it was available, so that didn’t hurt either.
3. As the previous site was not backed up and had to be rebuilt again from scratch, a completely fresh start was needed. While Leonardo is still graciously hosting the first site here, the second site only exists in the web archive, which can be hit or miss as far as content retention.

The older sites were also more geared towards a busier Guild. As it stands currently, the GoMe is mostly dormant, save for the tireless efforts of Guild Master Korov’ev. Not only has he been maintaining the Guild’s Google Calendar, but also the Facebook page, thus keeping all the GoMe faithful informed.

The new site will be a bit more streamlined, with explorers able to submit news, and the approval to be handled by both Korov’ev and Doobes (plus others if anyone would like to volunteer). We are also set up to offer translations of each and every post by anyone who would like to volunteer to do so. If you’d like your language added, let us know! Our support for the international community, as always, is unwavering, and GoMe 3.0 will be no different!

Note that, while the site is now live, there’s still a few bugs to squash, kinks to iron out, and informational pages to re-add. If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to contact us.

In the meantime, enjoy the new Guild of Messengers site!