Minkata Sparklie!

Good news from the world of Myst! Cyan recently launched build 905 of MO:ULa, with several bug fixes and features, but the spotlight is certainly that the Minkata Sparklie works!
If you're not familiar with what the Sparklies (or Sparks) do, they're basically these floating, buzzing sparks that you find throughout URU. There are twelve in total, but until recently, you could only collect eleven of them. I wasn't actually sure what happens when you get all of them, but now I do:


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This basically means that if you want to find out for yourself, you should go here. That's what I'd do.

Fireworks! Hooray for Cyan and open source people! But seriously, it is really great. It's like a reminder that Cyan really is still alive, and that they don't just spend their time resetting their servers every monday. Like a "server monkey". I can just imagine a little monkey sitting there in front of a server, unplugging and plugging it back in every 30 seconds.

Anyway, this is all made possible by URU users/fans making donations, since the game is completely free (technically known as donationware).
It's measured in the CAVCON scale, and, as laid out by RAWA:

CAVCON 5: Unlike some movies, which get the DEFCON levels backwards, CAVCON 5 is the best state. It means that donations are exceeding MO:ULagain expenses, there are a couple of months of MO:ULagain expenses in reserve, and extra money can be put toward server upgrades, bug fixes, new content, incorporating fan created content, etc. 

CAVCON 4: This level means that donations are exceeding MO:ULagain expenses, and we are building a small reserve fund for future slow periods. 

CAVCON 3: Donations are roughly equal to MO:ULagain expenses. 

CAVCON 2: Donations are less than MO:ULagain expenses, and we're currently using the reserve fund to help pay for MO:ULagain expenses. 

CAVCON 1: Donations are less than MO:ULagain expenses, and the reserve fund is empty. This would be A Bad Thing (tm).

(Watson, Richard A. "CAVCON Meter." Myst Online: Uru Live. Cyan Worlds, 26 Feb. 2010. Web. <http://mystonline.com/en/>.)

And right now, I think the CAVCON is at 4. You can find out for yourself here, but since we haven't hit 5 yet, go ahead and ! Let's get those server upgrades, bug fixes, new content, fan created content, etc, coming!

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