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Thank You Letter from Richard + Upcoming Updates
Confetti
Member Posts: 167
Got this letter in my box today. I'm sure you all have, but thought I would share it! 
Attention All AFS Recruits,
General British here. It’s a very exciting time for everyone here on the Tabula Rasa Dev Team as we approach launch, and I wanted to extend a personal thank you for playing in the Tabula Rasa beta. Your feedback has been essential in molding Tabula Rasa into the game it is today. Many changes have been made to the game over the past weeks, so those of you who haven’t played in a while might want to dust off your AFS issue rifle and head into the field for the last few days of beta testing. We will be having our End of Beta Event on Friday, October 26, 2007 starting at 10 pm CST and I challenge each and every one of you to get in game and try to “Kill General British”. The event will end at midnight CST and our servers will be brought down to prepare for release. Everyone who participates in the End of Beta event will receive a special emote in November to thank you for all you have done to make Tabula Rasa great.
For those of you who have already purchased the preorder bonus pack for Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa, we look forward to seeing you back in game on October 30, 2007 for your three day head start. During this time, all players who log in with their preorder account will be able to participate in our Halloween event on October 31st. At that time, you will be able to run special Halloween missions and receive exclusive Halloween masks and a “Trick or Treat” Emote as a treat from the Dev Team. If you haven’t purchased your Tabula Rasa Pre-order, you can still get one at your local game store or via the PlayNC.com store.
The development team is happy to announce some exciting ongoing improvements are on the horizon for Tabula Rasa. In the upcoming months, new content will be released in updates that we are calling “Operations”. Some of the things players can look forward to in these Operations are the addition of Military Surplus (Tabula Rasa’s Auction House), Personal Armor Units (vehicles of a sort), enhancements to Tabula Rasa’s PvP system, and the results of top secret AFS genetic engineering efforts with the addition of playable hybrid races to the game.
I hope to see all of you in game in the days leading up the End of Beta Event and look forward to fighting alongside you on the 30th, when the servers come back up for the Pre-order head start. And on November 2, 2007 when Tabula Rasa goes live, we will have a clean slate, and a chance to battle the Bane together and re-write the future of mankind.
*Salutes*
Richard “General British” Garriott
Comments
Does anyone else think Confettis signature is like walking into a wolf pack with raw meat stuck to you?
heh, got the email as well re downloading the client to see if anythings changed
So true... sad.. but so true...
At any rate, I look forward to trying these things out myself.. Especially this hybrid race he's talking about.
I wasn't going to say anything.
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How are you?" -Me
I wasnt either, but she keeps staring at me from that picture in posts I come here to reply to...its DISTRACTING!
I'd becareful guys Id be willing to bet shes ten times more dangerous than most of us here.
I'd becareful guys Id be willing to bet shes ten times more dangerous than most of us here.
Are you trying to make her more appealing?
I'd becareful guys Id be willing to bet shes ten times more dangerous than most of us here.
Are you trying to make her more appealing?
LOL
The elder content update that he's talking about is what imo will make TR a really good game. The updates to the PVP system will include clan control points that can be fought over clan vs clan and each class gets a different PAU which can be used in combat and will have different weapons and abilities.
I have seen some real improvements in the beta over the last few weeks and I wish they had delayed the release by a few months to include this content and finish polishing the game. It may make all the difference in the impact the game makes on release. I'm not sure I agree with their policy of Stable, Fast, Fun, surely Stable, Fun, Fast would be better...
Yeah, the picture is distracting. That damn hottie!!
Yes, i am really excited about the PvP.... i knew they woud come through
mmmmmmm, Confetti, sexiest girl on this damn forum
You're not afraid of the dark, are you?
fixed.
fixed.
Only woman? I beg to disagree.
=p
Linna
in other words it will be at least 3, if not 6 months before TR is actually ready for prime-time, and maybe worth the subscription fee
exactly what I've been saying all along
You know, I'm AMAZED at how quickly this beta has come along. When I first started it, it wasn't even worth the original fee (many games in beta aren't though). Now, the developers have slapped together some good features, and polished well.
I'd say give it about 3 months after launch and try it out again.
MMO games played or tested: EQ, DAoC, Archlord, Auto Assault, CoH, CoV, EQ2, EVE, Guild Wars, Hellgate: London, Linneage II, LOTRO, MxO, Planetside, SWG, Sword of the New World, Tabula Rasa, Vanguard, WWIIOL, WOW, Age of Conan
*salutes*
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I wonder if they are planning on introducing player-made housing.
Right now, I'm having a dilemma between Tabula Rasa and Hellgate London. Player housing would seal the deal for me.
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Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Lao-Tze
This update may make my purchase the game actually. Another playable race, hope its the bad guys... Anyway.
Plus player houses would rock! soldiers need to sleep to fight proper ya know.
I know, I know. It'd seem so silly in a game like this.
Yet... you know. I love a bit of depth. Even if it's something extremely mundane like player housing a la Star Wars Galaxies, Ultima Online or even Lord of the Rings.
But you're right. I'm not sure how it'd fit into the game.
To those who played the beta - how well will the game cater to a loot whore like me? Is there bind on pickup? Because I seriously hate that.
In all my time playing the beta I didn't find any bind on pickup items, and all the good loot that I did find was dropped off of everyday mobs or sometimes given as mission rewards. Best part is that you can beef it up a little further with the crafting. I really like the way they've done that.
I can see it now, you wake up after a heady night of explosions, weapon fire and screams. You start to water your plants as groups of bane happly ignore you as they go to take over a near by base. You start reading the newspaper as AFS carpet bombs the area. Your house is totally ignored while everything around it has been destroyed.
Watching Fanbois drop their soap in a prison full of desperate men.
Exactly! It's what I always envisioned my first house to be like.
I can see it now, you wake up after a heady night of explosions, weapon fire and screams. You start to water your plants as groups of bane happly ignore you as they go to take over a near by base. You start reading the newspaper as AFS carpet bombs the area. Your house is totally ignored while everything around it has been destroyed.
Its going to be like Barracks or something...I think.
hehe, prob we might get fox holes.
Watching Fanbois drop their soap in a prison full of desperate men.