Tagged News: tabula rasa

The week's Feedback Friday is posted today at the official site. Much news is posted about 'clan owned control points

It's been a while since we've last given an update on the progress of clan owned control points. I know a number of players have been hoping to hear more about the design and progress of this. With the 1.8 build you'll notice the addition of a new pane on your character doll called Prestige. It's the first part of a system that will be the basis for how clan owned control points will function.

Check out the rest by clicking below.

The Weekend Wrap Report for April 21, 2008 is now available. Included in this 'issue' is a list of 6-month veteran awards:

Veteran Rewards

The AFS would like to thank you for standing strong and sticking with us as we continue to battle the Bane forces. Because of your valiant efforts, we'd like to honor you with a veteran reward.

6 Month Reward

• General British Mask
• Green Beret
• Brass Knuckles
• /YMCA emote
• /Ballet emote
• /Breakdance emote

Hop on through to read the rest.

Eurogamer has posted a re-review of Tabula Rasa. Now that TR has been out for awhile and been through several patches, editors assigned the game 7/10. There is, they say, much to like...and dislike:

This being a re-review, we're called upon to provide a score - a tricky proposition, since we really like Tabula Rasa as a game, but now find it extremely hard to recommend that anyone actually pick it up and play it. The improvements since launch certainly bump up the game somewhat, but the drop in player population is a massive negative. In the end, we're scoring this as we now perceive its quality. But we can't honestly suggest that you play Tabula Rasa at this point, except as a curiosity.

What's your assessment? Let us know on the forums.

The most current edition of Feedback Friday is available. Focusing on questions about the TR backstory, readers will find a host of answers.

In this Feedback Friday we discuss some commonly asked questions about the Tabula Rasa backstory. Stay tuned to next week's Feedback Friday where we will will reveal more information about the 1.8 build.

We've seen the battle lines on the surface of two small planets. But, where are those planets in correlation to one another?

o Arieki and its sister planet Erdas (the Brann homeworld, which has completely fallen to the Bane) orbit HD 162020, a type K2V (Main Sequence) dwarf orange star located approximately 102 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. Foreas is much closer to Earth, orbiting Epsilon Indi, a main sequence star approximately 12 light years away, in the constellation Indus.

How are the battle lines drawn out on a galactic level?

o The AFS Forces as we know them were transported to Areiki and Foreas. It is possible that some humans were transported to other star systems via different wormhole connections, but the AFS currently has no way to communicate with them. There are almost certainly other non-human races fighting the Bane as well. To date, the full scope of the war, and the true size of the Bane forces on a galactic scale, is unknown.

Click through for the rest.

John Erskine, Director of Studio Services for NCsoft North America, takes a look at the overlooked and oft abused support personnel at NC Soft. Using Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa as his example, he walks readers through the world of tech support:

One of the most overlooked and underestimated tasks of launching a successful online game is the support aspect of the live service. After launch, MMOs are as much a "service" as a "game," yet many do not often consider the service aspect until shortly before launch. Here at NCsoft, we have a long history of providing excellent service for our products. Since we are a multi-product publisher of online games, we've learned a few tricks that help us successfully support the games that we publish. We house our entire support process in a department we call "Studio Services," which includes Quality Assurance, Customer Service, Game Support, and Localization. Each of these teams plays a critical role in the live support and operation of our games.

Click below to read the rest.

Tabula Rasa's Weekend Wrap Report is now available. The Weekend Wrap Report features news from the previous couple of days.

New Fan Art and Video

We wanted to take some time out a recognize two recently shared fan-created pieces.

The first fan art entry is from player Eva Evok from Pegasus. Eva shares her striking rendition of Sarah Morrison on a logos background.

Next, player Kaczmanchoy depicts some in-game footage in his video - Tabula Rasa - Now/Here.

Have any fan art, fan fiction, or fan videos you'd like to share? We'd love to see them. Just mail us your entry at trsubmissions@ncsoft.com.

There is also some fansite news to head on over.

Focusing on the squad system and clan controlled points, this week's Feedback Friday starts off with on a bit of a dour note:

Spring is in the air, the treemites are coming out to play and it feels like update time again. As stated in Starr's update, the team has gotten smaller. With a smaller post production group, you have to concentrate on the things that will make the product better and prioritize features that will make the game enjoyable for the players. So the team got together, and talked about what that would make the project better in the short term based on their thoughts of the game and player feedback. We came away with two big features that we felt would really make a large amount of difference.

The article goes on in a much more positive vein so click below to read the rest.

The winners of the Base Announcement Contest were announced today. Winners were selected from the US, France, Germany and the UK. Here's a sample of of the US winner:

English US: Phil Manning - Mansfield, TX

"Attention all personnel, in light of the continuing wormhole irregularities, the Theoretical Physics Division wishes to remind you that physical contact with any past or future version of you may cause a rift in space-time and destroy the universe. Please keep your hands away from yourself. That is all."

LOL...anyone with a translation of the French and German announcements, please post them to the forums.

The v1.7 patch is now available on Tabula Rasa's test server. There is one note of caution for potential testers, however:

1.7 is now on the Public Test Server. Please be advised, if you are patching from version 1.6.6.1 you may get an error message and won't be able to patch to 1.7. We hope to have this issue resolved shortly.

As soon as a full list of fixes and improvements is available, we'll post it for your perusal.

The latest weekend wrap report is now live at the official Tabula Rasa site. Featuring news of an 'unofficial screenshot contest' and information about last Friday Night Fights, there are also several announcements.

Live Fire Sports Bombing Run - Orion

Saturday evening, E-swat competed against the combined forces of Imperial Fists and The Guardians of New Earth (GNE) in a trial run of the LFS's Bombing Run. Both teams tried to battle their way into their opponent's Control Point and plant a bomb, destroying the base. An amazing amount of firepower what unleashed by both sides but Imperial Fists/GNE managed to twice bomb out the opposing CP to clinch victory.

Many thanks to Exxcentric & Eswat, Sala & Imperial Fits and Critten & NGE. With the feedback from the fight, the LFS will continue to tweak the Bombing Run format and has also come up with a variant, the Assassination Run. If you have a clan or squad interested in testing out either event, the LFS is willing to host it on your server so sign up via the links above. If you are a player looking to join a PvP clan, you should definitely checkout any of these three groups.

About Live Fire Sports: The LFS is the Tabulas Rasa Player versus Player ladder, providing ranking for single player, squad, and clan wars. We also track the results of on-going PvP tournaments and competitions like the Friday Night Fights. We also host our own refereed events to provide a little twist to straight up PvP and can provide referee services upon request.

Check out the rest at the TR site.