Tuesday, May 13
The developers from NCsoft have rolled out the Weekend Wrapup for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa which summarizes all the events that happened for the week ending in May 12. Last week saw quite a number of events including an update on the AFS Recreational Gallery, the results of the Tabul...
Sunday, May 11
If you're an active player of NCsoft's Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, then you might find the Feedback Friday useful. After all, knowledge is power. Use the information we have to your advantage in the MMO. The latest leg of the weekly update covered various topics: the PTS level command an...
Friday, May 9
We've got some news from the frontlines of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, so grab your rifles and fall in. The developers from NCsoft are going to be making a few changes in the Public Test Server and implementing a new program to get some inactive soldiers back in the war.
Wednesday, May 7
The developers from NCsoft have released the screenshot of the week for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. This week's offering called Eloh Vale shows off an in-game couple as they meet a living Eloh on Planet Foreas. The screenshot was submitted by Eryxx Starssprint, and it shows off his cha...
Monday, May 5
The Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Weekend Wrapup has been officially released. In this week's release, the guys from NCsoft compiled the results of the last Friday Night Fights, the Atrus Manus event on Pegasus, and a new fan video.
Saturday, May 3
A lot of things are in store for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, according to the game's lead designer, Tom Potter. In this week's Feedback Friday, Potter talks about what the devs are cooking for the game's populace. According to him, the main focus of the devs right now are clan-owned cont...
Thursday, May 1
AFS recruits, form up - there's a news bulletin that's just been released on the official NCsoft Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa website, and it concerns you and your experience rates. The deal is that if you take the time and effort to create squads and work together (get some co-operation...
Wednesday, Apr 30
Longing for some Bane-blasting fest in NCsoft's sci-fi MMO, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa? Don't worry about it any longer. The AFS upcoming week-long event will be able to serve all the action that you can possibly chew. You guys might remember the last struggle that you had against the a...
Monday, Apr 28
This patch includes quite a few interesting updates. There are fixes to respawns, aggro adjustments, and even a few changes to Spy and Ranger abilities. Pet-loving players will also welcome the new damage bonuses to their pets when they add points to their Mind attribute.
This article also contains excerpts from
Qj.net, MMORPG blog, Tabula Rasa News at Ten Ton Hammer, virginworlds.com
Friday, Apr 25
When build 1.8 is introduced in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, the devs will kick off a new system called Prestige. What's is Prestige? Basically, it's a kind of currency that will dictate how Clan Owned Control Points will function.
Thursday, Apr 24
Heads up, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa players! The latest patch notes for the game have already been released, and it's very brief. Teeny weeny it is, but it's still an important batch of update that you should know about. After all, you'd want to be up to speed on all things relating NCsof...
This article also contains excerpts from
Qj.net, MMORPG blog
Tuesday, Apr 15
We've got the lowdown on NCsoft's latest Weekend Wrapup for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa for the week of April 12, 2008. You'll be getting that and more, so don't worry if you weren't able to get hold of what went on this past week. That's about it for this edition of the Weekend Wrapup. If you g...
Sunday, Apr 13
The second item on the devs' plate is clan-owned control points. Apparently, this feature will be for both PvP and PvE. Control point tokens will also be renamed to prestige. Prestige will still work like control point tokens, but ways of earning them may change.
Friday, Apr 11
NCsoft has yet to release details on what issues they've encountered with the patch. All they mentioned in their site was that "there have been a few issues with today s patch." They add that they're already on the problem and are working to find a fix.
This article also contains excerpts from
Qj.net, Gaming Today, MMORPG blog, GameValor
Thursday, Apr 10
The memory leak issue certainly sounds like a nasty one, though we're glad to see that NCsoft is doing something to nip it in the bud. Do note, however, that this will temporarily disable any characters you're testing for the 1.7 build, as the incremental build will replace 1.7 in the Public Te...
Tuesday, Apr 8
For those of us who regularly while away the hours hunting down the Bane in NCsoft's MMORPG, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, here's a news bulletin direct from the team themselves: the 1.7 update is now up in the Play Test Server, so you might want to log in right now to make sure your client is...
This article also contains excerpts from
Qj.net, MMORPG blog
Monday, Apr 7
The developers from NCsoft have released the Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Weekend Wrapup for April 7. The regular update featured a new contest, the first trial run of the Live Fire Sports Bombing Run, as well as the latest results of the Friday Night Fights.
Thursday, Mar 27
Great news for fans of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa! April Burba (CuppaJo), the associate producer of the MMORPG, has announced that patch 1.6.5 should be arriving very soon.
This article also contains excerpts from
bluesnews.com, virginworlds.com, driverheaven.net, MMORPG blog, Gaming Today, GameValor
Monday, Mar 17
It's that time of the week once again for the weekend wrapup in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. And in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, the staff have something special planned for gamers today. Also this week is the inevitable wrapup of Tabula Rasa's crossword challenge. Only two spots are...
Saturday, Mar 15
No worries, though. There were hints of the sniper getting some additional benefits from the upcoming ranger improvement soon, so don't shelf that Torqueshell Rifle just yet. Come back to this spot again next week for more updates to Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa.
Wednesday, Mar 12
As if there weren't enough fun activities to do in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, community PlanetTR is hosting a new event that should get players of NCSoft's MMORPG on their feet. The PlanetTR Crossword Puzzle Challenge will soon begin, and victors are going to earn serious swag.
Monday, Feb 25
It was revealed that there are a few problems with Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa patch 1.5. Perhaps the biggest one that has been found so far is a bug which causes certain video cards to "display improperly" when changing resolutions.
NCsoft has released the Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Weekend Wrapup for the week ending February 25, 2008. It seems the week was pretty quiet with the exception of Operation Washington and a new contest. In case you want to check out this week's Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Weekend Wra...
Saturday, Feb 23
Armor Optimization: We are working to make player armor more efficiently use video card resources. In this publish, we have optimized all Motor Assist suits. This may cause slight changes to the visual appearance of some piece of Motor Assist armor.
Wednesday, Feb 20
In case you're new to Tabula Rasa's official fiction, they are a set of short stories that revolve around the science fiction world of TR. The newest addition to the chronicles is a narration by Pvt. Kathy Ryden about those who survived the Bane's attack on Earth and what little hope they clin...
Tuesday, Feb 19
An article about Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa was also spotted on The Korea Times, saying NCsoft only earned five billion won in its first year. The massive online game is expected to bag 15 billion won this year, but it still won't be close to breaking even.
You may have heard it reported that NCsoft is in trouble right now because of the lackluster performance of its Tabula Rasa MMORPG. NCsoft, however, begs to differ. According to the company, things are not nearly as bad as some people may think.
Friday, Feb 15
Yet sales of Lineage 2 in Korea rose by 8 over the prior year. In a nutshell, NCsoft 's holiday quarter sales dipped at 45 (down to US$10.9 million) and sales went down by 3 (US 349.1 million) from the previous year. Nevertheless, the company refuses to look down. For one thing, NCsoft is looking fo...
Thursday, Feb 14
If you're an avid fan of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, then you might want to listen up. The developers from NCsoft have finally announced that they will be rewarding Charcoal Dye to players who have recorded at least 2 hours or more on activity in the Public Test Servers from January 21 to...
Wednesday, Feb 13
For those of you who are regular players of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, more or less you guys are itching for this week's update. This week we have more information on the 1.5 update, the event that happened over the weekend, and the Tabula Talks.
Saturday, Feb 9
When being Resuscitated on the battlefield, the player now receives a confirmation dialog box, allowing choice of whether and when to be revived.Created and implemented various icons for defaults and ammunition icons signifying difference in grade.Armor Optimization: We are workin...
Thursday, Feb 7
NCsoft is informing all players of the MMORPG Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa that fireworks will be added into their in-game backpacks later today. But if you think the celebration is going to be all fun, be reminded that the Bane doesn't celebrate Chinese New Year. NCsoft posted:
Tuesday, Feb 5
The last time we heard about Hybrids in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa from NCsoft, we got some details on their stats, their starting points, and so on. Now, we get full ocular education about this mysterious race, via a completely-new video of them in action, as well as concept art and scr...
This week saw a lot of changes in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. For those who haven't been keeping up, the developers from NCsoft have released the Weekend Wrapup. The new issue is a problem with armor penetration. Apparently it isn't working properly when weapons such as injector guns ar...
Sunday, Feb 3
Stand firm, AFS. Reinforcements have arrived. Patch version 1.4 just came out last Friday, February 1, and brought with it the long awaited hybrid race content to Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. Game developer Destination Games and publisher NCSoft also included a few performance optimi...
Thursday, Jan 31
NCsoft has a couple of updates for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. These updates involve the game's performance and the connection issues, as well as the weekly screenshot showcase submitted by the players themselves. We just learned that Tabula Rasa is currently suffering from high la...
Saturday, Jan 26
Designer David Vargo relates what went into the creation of this impressive instance in Tabula Rasa. In the instance, it's the payer's mission is to neutralize the shockwave hammers as well as destroy the Thrax units that operate the facility.
Friday, Jan 25
In this week's Feedback Friday for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, NCsoft has announced that the game will be employing another approach to releasing new content. Instead of expansion packs, content will now be released in smaller updates.
Tuesday, Jan 22
Anyway, Garriott seems to be in high spirits about the trip itself, commenting that he expects everything to go smoothly. This could be because the man's father himself, former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, is serving as the chief scientist for the upcoming flight. Garriott has also had s...
Sunday, Jan 20
A Multi Clan War hosted by the Foliage Pulverizers has been scheduled for the Pegasus Server in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. Players will get to duke it out with each other for a total of two hours. If you'd like to register for the war, you have to get yourself a group of four.
Have you checked out the most recent Feedback Friday post for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa? There was a handful of interesting stuff in there, with emphasis on issue fixes and explanations about the significance of rarity and color in item drops.
Friday, Jan 18
This would indeed be a cool feature and while it isn't exactly the same principle as Tabula Rasa's Control Points, its application in World of Warcraft would be a nice incentive to foster even more PvP (though it hardly needs encouragement).
Thursday, Jan 17
One of the most prominent companies in the MMORPG scene with strong franchises across the globe, NCsoft, is cooking up big things for 2008, and NCsoft North America president Chris Chung (who recently replaced Robert Garriott) was able to talk about what's in store. In an interview, he di...
Friday, Jan 4
The start of the new year brings with it the first Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Feedback Friday from NCsoft. The developers of the game gave word that patch 1.4 will be hitting the Public Test Server soon. The update brings new features, bugfixes, and more.
Friday, Dec 21
Updates for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa have come in and it looks like a new hotfix was applied to the live servers last December 20. In addition, the roleplaying community have sponsored yet another holiday event called A Time to Remember.
Wednesday, Dec 19
Those who play Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa might want to consider taking part in the TR-Roleplayers 2007 Christmas Sweepstakes. The winner of the contest gets to take home a brand new Zboard, a Limited Edition Tabula Rasa Keyset, and a Tabula Rasa Fragmat from NCsoft.
Thursday, Dec 13
Good news, players trekking the Bane-infested fields of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa: the bugfix that pretty much everyone has been clamoring for will be coming live tomorrow morning, specifically at 4 AM to 6 AM, Central time. The news announcement that says this, verbatim:
Tuesday, Dec 11
When the previous patch for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa arrived, a lot of people were glad to see that bugs were taken care of. The only hitch was that repair costs for equippable items skyrocketed, leaving players trying to raise funds gnashing their teeth.
Sunday, Dec 9
The patch notes for the Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa test servers have been released much to the delight of some members of the QJ.NET team. We're pretty sure that you want to find out all about the changes that NCsoft has been implementing. Here is the complete list of all the changes done on...
Friday, Dec 7
The last time we heard about the test server in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, we gave you an update about the new items you could purchase in the latest build. Now, we've got another test server-related bit of news headed your way, and this time it's about a new Operation area.
Friday, Nov 30
The patch notes and known issues as of November 29 for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa are already up on the official NCsoft website. Among the changes include various server-client fixes, crafting updates, and even several changes to skills and abilities.
Wednesday, Nov 28
It was announced on the official Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa website that players will be getting a respec. This will be implemented after the update that fixes the Rage bug. In addition, the developers also clarified some of the changes they plan on making to the Rage skill.
Tuesday, Nov 27
Another week ends for the recruits in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, and NCsoft's wrap-up falls close behind. The biggest thing that passed seems to be the Rage skill, which came out with a bang because of a bug that escalated its damage bonus to a whopping 105 after the initial cast alone.
Monday, Nov 26
A status report on the latest Tabula Rasa patch has been posted on the official website for NCSoft's ambitious sci-fi MMORPG title, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. If you're one of those expecting the patch to hit today, then prepare to be disappointed.
Saturday, Nov 24
Wilderness: Twin Pillars Palisades: Cumbria Research Plateau: Fort Defiance Plains: Irendas Colony Thunderhead: Thunderhead Base There was more information on the the changes as well as a short Q&A hosted by NCsoft Tabula Rasa Community Coordinator Critters. Follow our Via li...
Tuesday, Nov 20
Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa from NCsoft has been out for weeks now and MMORPG fans are loving every bit of it. To enhance the gaming experience in this expansive new world, players were pulled from the Centaurus Server this week to seed it with data. A lot of changes have taken place in the t...
Monday, Nov 12
After the success of the last Friday Night Fights event, NCSoft will hold another Friday Night Fight Event in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, this time on Orion Server. Here's the details where and when this in-game event will be held:
Friday, Nov 9
Friday Night Fights is a weekly hand to hand fighting tournament in Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. Sixteen people take part in a single-elimination, bracket style tournament. Whoever wins the tournament gets the prize money, but he or she also gets a shot at the week's mystery fighter in...
Wednesday, Nov 7
The patch notes for the recent 11/7 update on Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa have been revealed on NCsoft's website. The latest patch addresses players' complaints about the "damage stacking" of various damage types as well as the inevitable lag that occurs when more people started pla...
Saturday, Nov 3
Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa has always strived to take the MMORPG genre to greater levels, and (another) one of its features that will separate it from the niche is that the game's postergirl, Sarah Morrison, will be played by an actual person instead of being an NPC that spouts out scr...
Sunday, Oct 28
Now in Tabula Rasa, they've recreated the event from ten years ago, with a few tweaks though. For one, Garriott wasn't invulnerable. What made him seem so were the clones of himself causing chaos in the battlefield. As CuppaJo explained before the event:
Tuesday, Aug 28
During this year's Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), WarCry spoke to Tabula Rasa Community Manager April "Cuppa Jo" Burba about what's new in NCSoft and Richard Garriott's upcoming MMORPG title. Here's a rundown of some of the changes and new stuff mentioned by Cuppa Jo:
Wednesday, Aug 8
JoyStiq managed to score an interview with NCsoft boss Richard Garriott and Executive Producer Brian Clayton. The talk revolved mostly around the MMORPG industry and their (NCSoft) plans to support the PlayStation 3 with MMO-type titles. Their latest project - Tabula Rasa - was also tou...
Thursday, Jul 26
In this interview, we are shown in-game footage of NCSoft's Tabula Rasa as Richard Garriot talks about the steps the game has taken to further the MMO genre. He also talks about his transition from his roots on fantasy on making Ultima Online, to the war epic Tabula Rasa. You also get to see a ch...
Wednesday, Jul 25
Game design has not changed over 10 years. Fundamentally the gameplay is unchanged" says Tabula Rasa executive producer Richard Garriot. Nothing new, he says, since the release of Ultima Online in 1997. Heavy words for a veteran in the MMORPG industry.
Saturday, Jul 7
April Burba: Besides fighting we have a crafting system, the hunt for Logos (collection), taverns (social RnR), and a Clan system (Guilds). These are just the first steps in these areas and I expect more social systems to show up in some of our major content releases. // The worlds themselve...
Wednesday, Jun 13
While talk about NCsoft's Tabula Rasa is unavoidable, since that game is Garriott's next baby, we'll give you all the revealed Tabula Rasa contributions to the MMO genre later. For now here's how Garriott sees the MMO genre the way it is now:
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