Tabula Rasa

Does anyone have a recommended site/link to consolidated generalized gameplay information for TR? I've see all of the fan sites with information on classes, weapons, etc, but I haven't seen any one that has all of the answers to the standard generalized MMORPG questions such as:

1) Death Penalty (PvE & PvP)
2) Grouping (Are there level limitations, etc)
3) Generalized Experience info (Group split)
4) In game Travel
5) How does PvP work? (voluntary, same server, specific servers, etc)

Thanks!

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Originally posted by dsorrent
Does anyone have a recommended site/link to consolidated generalized gameplay information for TR? I've see all of the fan sites with information on classes, weapons, etc, but I haven't seen any one that has all of the answers to the standard generalized MMORPG questions such as:

1) Death Penalty (PvE & PvP)
2) Grouping (Are there level limitations, etc)
3) Generalized Experience info (Group split)
4) In game Travel
5) How does PvP work? (voluntary, same server, specific servers, etc)

Thanks!

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Ok, so I couldn't find the answers online, so I bought the game myself to find out. I'll update this as I find the answers myself:

1) Haven't died yet, but from what I gather, I'll be respawned back at a hospital with reduced stats/abilities which will be worked off via XP or I can buy a trauma kit which will erase the penalty completely. There's a 5 minute cooloff on using a trauma kit (i.e. you can use another one for at least 5 minutes). Once I die (which will happen soon, I'm sure), I'll update/confirm this.

2) As best as I can tell there is no level limitations between who you can group with. The grouping interface is non-existant. Please don't interpret that to mean it's bad, I mean, it really doesn't exist. The only way to group in the game at the current time is to look for a group on a LFG Chat Channel. I was quite shocked this key feature of a MMORPG was just missing from the game. As best as I can tell, if you get a quest to kill X of something, you get credit for your team mates kills as well toward that. As far as group looting, it looks like there's 2 options: Free For All and Rotational. I set it for Rotational with someone else in the group with me, but either we were picking up loot so fast, or it doesn't actually rotate per item. It may do it on item value or something. I'm not sure. But speaking of looting, one of the features I really like is you can just run over the dead mob to auto loot all items on the mob. Not stopping, clicking loot, etc. You can just check out your inventory later to see what you got and keep rolling with the action. As group leader, there was some other setting for looting called "Loot Threshold". Apparently the Loot Threshold sets the type of loot you can "run over" and auto-pick up. It looks to be some kind of scale from "Junk" to Extremely Rare items.

3) Still need to do more grouping to check get more information on this one.

4) Travel consists of running but also there are teleports from location to location. You must visit the destination location by foot once before the destination teleporter shows up as an available teleport destination. Running between locations isn't bad either. There were several times where I looked on the map and headed out toward a teleport destination so I could "open it up" and then next thing I knew, I was there already.

5) Haven't seen/done anything regarding PvP. I don't even know if this exists.