Great Feedback Friday for 10/24/08 posted today...

http://www.rgtr.com/news/latest_news/feedback_friday_102408.html

Some great features coming with going back to earth...

• Epic instanced control point gameplay for level 48 to 50 players
• All new setting and art design
• New monsters, including new Epic creatures and mini-bosses. These new Epic creatures are designed to be a greater challenge, requiring the efforts of coordinated squads with excellent weapons and gear to be defeated.
• PvE Mech gameplay opportunities
• New armor sets available only on Earth.

Some screenshots are posted in the link. Should be good if you enjoy TR.

uh huh.  What's the projected ETA for this deployment? Is it "soon"?     Or will it stay true to the past  false promises and not materialze? 

Originally posted by Broomy

uh huh.  What's the projected ETA for this deployment? Is it "soon"?     Or will it stay true to the past  false promises and not materialze? 

^ what she said.

Up untill now, there's been one Deploiment a month, so D15 should hit live before Christmas.

Originally posted by Sajud

Up untill now, there's been one Deploiment a month, so D15 should hit live before Christmas.

 

I think what they meant was TR has failed to produce content they said was in the works so many times now that no one believes they will get Earth or the AFS going there any time soon.

The deployments have been monthly, the amount of content in them was generally weak.

This game must not die!!!

They are already going into the right direction with it. With more content added, things fixed and opening Oceanic servers the game can go strong. However, they seriously need to consider that Stargate is coming.

If the guys are sure enough and confident when they have patched this game to its limits, they can re-luanch it as Rebirth of TR. Though they had a very terrible start at the beginning, i am sure that TR isn't a piece of crap. Its just not taken care of properly at the begining.

I hope that they don't give up with their hard work just yet, remeber that this game IS the only sci fi MMO at the moment. Use your marketing head NCsoft!!!

Originally posted by meetxj9

This game must not die!!!

They are already going into the right direction with it. With more content added, things fixed and opening Oceanic servers the game can go strong. However, they seriously need to consider that Stargate is coming.

If the guys are sure enough and confident when they have patched this game to its limits, they can re-luanch it as Rebirth of TR. Though they had a very terrible start at the beginning, i am sure that TR isn't a piece of crap. Its just not taken care of properly at the begining.

I hope that they don't give up with their hard work just yet, remeber that this game IS the only sci fi MMO at the moment. Use your marketing head NCsoft!!!

So EVE and SWG do not count as Sci-fi? NCSoft is not going to dump more millions into a game that has never been promoted well and is not anywhere close to being profitable. It is simply bad nusiness for them to do that at this point.

Maybe this game needs to die, so other games in the future hopefully learn a lesson that you can not put out single player, no content after the halfway level point MMOs and make money. TR is still not being taken care of properly or do you think going from the PAU idea to the single MECH for all idea was a good change showing real innovation and genius?

you can't really compare EVE Online with Tabula Rasa. EVE is 100% flying around in a space ship, while TR is constantly fighting on the ground. Still a major difference even when they're both Sci-Fi MMORPGs

vapourware

I'll not believe a damned thing coming out of the dev team until it's actually live on the production servers

their track record on delivering promised additions/improvements/content has been dire

-=A=-

Originally posted by L0k1-

you can't really compare EVE Online with Tabula Rasa. EVE is 100% flying around in a space ship, while TR is constantly fighting on the ground. Still a major difference even when they're both Sci-Fi MMORPGs

Yes there are major differences. I did not compare them at all. I stuck them in the same genre of Sci-Fi MMO, which both are.

Honestly, the idea of adding earth to the game and allowing high level players to go there, plus using it to create content for their mech addition makes a lot of sense. This is exactly the kind of content the game needs. (And has needed since launch.)

But think about it for a second. It took them YEARS to make their one mech which was originally planned even before launch. It also started out as a much larger idea then got shunk down to just one mech.

Do you really believe they have either the skill or resources at this stage of the game to add a whole planet to the game? If they even manage to pull it off at all it will probably take the form of small instanced mission zones which will look suspiciously like the planets we have now, with only one or two new graphics to make it different at all. The way they keep throwing the word "epic" around like they are suddenly going to start turning the game into WoW doesn't exactly inspire me with confidence either.

Originally posted by Raltar

Honestly, the idea of adding earth to the game and allowing high level players to go there, plus using it to create content for their mech addition makes a lot of sense. This is exactly the kind of content the game needs. (And has needed since launch.)

But think about it for a second. It took them YEARS to make their one mech which was originally planned even before launch. It also started out as a much larger idea then got shunk down to just one mech.

Do you really believe they have either the skill or resources at this stage of the game to add a whole planet to the game? If they even manage to pull it off at all it will probably take the form of small instanced mission zones which will look suspiciously like the planets we have now, with only one or two new graphics to make it different at all. The way they keep throwing the word "epic" around like they are suddenly going to start turning the game into WoW doesn't exactly inspire me with confidence either.

The idea of adding a new planet is not new. They had a planet planned I think it was called Myclon or something like that. I guess the players wanting to go back to Earth made them change that plan. If they pull it off and integrate the Mechs into it, they could have a great addition to the game here. Still think the original PAU idea would have made it better, but too late for that so have to hope this helps.

I am planning on reactivating my account after I finish Fallout 3.

I am so excited for this new patch!! 

Originally posted by Raltar

Honestly, the idea of adding earth to the game and allowing high level players to go there, plus using it to create content for their mech addition makes a lot of sense. This is exactly the kind of content the game needs. (And has needed since launch.)

But think about it for a second. It took them YEARS to make their one mech which was originally planned even before launch. It also started out as a much larger idea then got shunk down to just one mech.

Do you really believe they have either the skill or resources at this stage of the game to add a whole planet to the game? If they even manage to pull it off at all it will probably take the form of small instanced mission zones which will look suspiciously like the planets we have now, with only one or two new graphics to make it different at all. The way they keep throwing the word "epic" around like they are suddenly going to start turning the game into WoW doesn't exactly inspire me with confidence either.

Richard Garriot should just go back to making a game like UO :p I really need a game to play, and none of them compares to UO with its old system setup, not like modern times. Im sure if he could make another "UO" people will come.

"If you build it, they will come."

YES!

Knew this would happen, the change of the loggin screen art into a war torn version of earth was a dead give away YAY!

Originally posted by csthao

Originally posted by Raltar

Honestly, the idea of adding earth to the game and allowing high level players to go there, plus using it to create content for their mech addition makes a lot of sense. This is exactly the kind of content the game needs. (And has needed since launch.)

But think about it for a second. It took them YEARS to make their one mech which was originally planned even before launch. It also started out as a much larger idea then got shunk down to just one mech.

Do you really believe they have either the skill or resources at this stage of the game to add a whole planet to the game? If they even manage to pull it off at all it will probably take the form of small instanced mission zones which will look suspiciously like the planets we have now, with only one or two new graphics to make it different at all. The way they keep throwing the word "epic" around like they are suddenly going to start turning the game into WoW doesn't exactly inspire me with confidence either.

 

Richard Garriot should just go back to making a game like UO :p I really need a game to play, and none of them compares to UO with its old system setup, not like modern times. Im sure if he could make another "UO" people will come.

"If you build it, they will come."

Mr. Garriot has no more say in the direction TR goes now. And I think that is for the best IMO.

Originally posted by SXRchosen1

I am planning on reactivating my account after I finish Fallout 3.

I am so excited for this new patch!! 

 

I would wait until it is in before getting too excitied. It is a good idea and hope it works but a little realism is needed when considering TR timetables for new content.

if they have announced that this will be available around christmas - expect it to arrive sometime in the third/fourth quarter 2009, and be incredibly watered down to insignifigance

I've seen too much empty vapour to believe this will happen in any timely manner

Just wanted to say, Mycon is still supposed to come, some of the quests give away that there's a connection between the survivors on earth and Mycon. ;)

Originally posted by Sajud

Just wanted to say, Mycon is still supposed to come, some of the quests give away that there's a connection between the survivors on earth and Mycon. ;)

TR might be best served by an expansion that includes both and some real epic battles. Maybe some advertising and a huge expansion that is at least the size of the current game world. I know it will not happen as an expansion that size woul take big money and a big team and right now TR is probably not in a position to provide either, but it could have been great.

I'll beleive it when I see it.  Until then its all vaporware and empty promises.   Ive been down this road before with this game and have been disappointed every single time.

Not to mention that many in the community of TR are happy with the lack of content, lack of group/raid encounters and are basically a bunch of carebears that dont want to see anyone in better gear than themselves. 

I'm not sure how they are managing all this great new content with most of the Dev team gone, no funds and players having left the game in droves.  But hey keep up the fantasy, err I mean, science fiction.  I'll beleive it when it materializes. 

Originally posted by Broomy

I'll beleive it when I see it.  Until then its all vaporware and empty promises.   Ive been down this road before with this game and have been disappointed every single time.

Not to mention that many in the community of TR are happy with the lack of content, lack of group/raid encounters and are basically a bunch of carebears that dont want to see anyone in better gear than themselves. 

I'm not sure how they are managing all this great new content with most of the Dev team gone, no funds and players having left the game in droves.  But hey keep up the fantasy, err I mean, science fiction.  I'll beleive it when it materializes. 

Wait and see is the only way to go with TR after this first year. We all know what happened to other content that was labeled "coming soon". If it gets added and is really great it may bring back many people who left and add people who never gave it a try, but the track record speaks for itself.

No matter what they do this game is will never grow beyond a niche game. It's going to have real issues with sub number when people pick the more polished StarGate Worlds as their Sci Fi MMO IMHO.  The first creation of Tabula Rasa before they scrapped it would of had more success I think.

The game is shutting down in Feb 09.  It's been announced.  So yeah, its not going to grow anytime soon.

RIP TR

Too bad. I was really hoping the return to Earth would (someday) come true. Looks like the Bane win afterall.