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• • where to buy Tabula Rasa for the cheapest price?

  • $1.99 + $3.99s/h= $5.98 at Amazon

    Hell, you can splurge and get the Collectors Edition for $10 including s/h.

  • Posted: 11/22/08 1:09 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Pirates of the Burning Sea: Female Avatars Now Less Masculine

  • Originally posted by Szark
    

    Flying Lab Software has revealed details of the new female avatars in the game, which have undergone a make over to make them look less masculine.

    In the past couple of milestones, the character team and our graphics programmer have been working to make our female avatars less masculine.

    The reason that this has been an issue is because of a choice, made long ago, to have only one skeleton shared between both men and women avatar models. The reasoning behind the choice was one of savings, both in the production pipeline and in the memory footprint of the game. With only one skeleton, we would only need one set of animations and not one for each skeleton—less work for animators on the back end and a smaller animation database in the game. The price for this savings was a compromise to have either masculine looking women (broad shoulders, no hips), feminine looking men, or blah looking both. We went for masculine looking women and while the character team did their best to feminize our broad-shouldered, slim-hipped women, they were never satisfied with the results.

    Now that the game has been live for some time, we’ve set out to fixing things that have made us unhappy. When I sat down with the character team they unanimously remarked that the most frustrating character issue was the masculine bodied women.

    Read more here.

    
     

    And that is one reason the game failed.

  • Posted: 11/22/08 1:04 PM
    General Discussion
• • For mmorpg.com staff ( Hey, Stradden! Pop in here a sec! ).

  • Originally posted by TheHoweller
    

    Zorvan, excellent job doing this.  You've pulled the forum together under a common goal :)

    
     

    Geez, if I'm not careful, I may lose my "Darkfall forum troll" status.

  • Posted: 11/22/08 12:58 PM
    Darkfall
• • For mmorpg.com staff ( Hey, Stradden! Pop in here a sec! ).

  • Originally posted by Stradden
    

    Originally posted by TheHoweller
    

    Originally posted by Kyleran
    

    Originally posted by downtoearth
    

    Originally posted by TheHoweller
    

    An objective opinion on this game's beta would be magnificent. 

    Please MMORPG, pull this one off and hope that your Italian counter-part hasn't already.

     
    

    they have already..

     

    No, no, you misunderstood, we said an objective opinion. 

     

    Just to clarify what I "hope" Kyleran is attempting to defend me on... MMORPG Italia's preview/review/holyshit, was far from objective.  It honestly read like more fluff from Adventurine.  I really want a dirty review of the beta, and not some dreamy, walk through the park with our Adventurine friends, I just want the truth.

    I'm really done with the self-publicizing that they've been doing, everything's always talked up, never down.  It's really discouraging.

    *EDIT* And yes, to add.  I do know that the "review" isn't finished yet because they've to get back to their offices...But that still doesn't change the fact that what was there, was "very" positive.

    If you want that (a down and dirty review), you're not likley to get it from a studio visit, I'm afraid. I've been to a lot of these in-house previews and they're very much about that the company wants you to see. This, more likley than any other reason, is why they want press on-site for demo purposes.

    Agreed. That's why I was hoping you guys could wrangle yourselves into the closed beta itself instead of having to go the "office visit" route.
     

    Oh, and welcome to the convo.

  • Posted: 11/22/08 12:49 PM
    Darkfall
• • Dark and Light game developer NPCube dismissed and convicted by French Court

  • Originally posted by indiramourn
    

    Originally posted by Cholayna
    

    Farceland/NPFleece had not only their pants down but were also caught trying to pull everyone else's down in order to take the whole she-bang down with them.

    I'm calling the analogy police on you, Cholayna!  I'm going to have nightmares dealing with this image.  Especially since it is so totally accurate.

    And when you say, "these blind and comprehension-free posters" it makes me smile.

    I'm now looking to purchase a bone-saw and a brillo pad so I can scrub that image from my brain.
     

  • Posted: 11/22/08 12:46 PM
    Dark and Light