Talk:Shard

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The first bullet (dictionary definition) should be deleted. The second definition (re games) should probably be in its own article, as this is a disambig page.

Another comment: "Shard" also means "low lying" in the north west of England. There is also the Shard, a river in that area. It reputedly has a similar meaning in the Scots language, but, more normally in Scotland, it commonly means cow dung.

It isn't entirely accurate to say EVE Online has no shards or instances, because technically they have both. The Chinese servers are separate from the rest of the world, due to Chinese law. Also instances do exist, called "Deadspaces", the only way into these areas is through a "jump gate" (different from a stargate), and players can be restricted from entering some of them by the types of ships they're flying. Although it may be different then other MMOG's instances, it is still technically the same according to the definition given on Instance dungeon which I am also editing due to the erroneous information about EVE and no instances. Since EVE is sorta in the gray-area for shards, and since the Chinese server is 100% invisible to anyone but in China, I'll leave it here. The description I'm going to edit to remove info not relevant to Shards (instances). Raeky (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 07:38, 1 September 2008 (UTC)