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• Tom tells us about his role as lead designer on Tabula Rasa and how important the community is to his role
• PAU's: when we can start seeing concept art and how they will be introduced into the game
• Delivery of new systems and Tom's vision for this
• The Neph Warrior and how they will introduce new types of spawns to maps that make use of logos
• New creatures pretty soon and mobs whose visual appearance is level based
• Armour design and the differences between them
• Solo-ability and overall vision for class balance
• Community focused areas to act as a hub for players to get together such as the CELLAR Arena
• Is there room for a group XP bonus?
• Thoughts  on balance between PVP and PVE gameplay
• Crafting and how it WILL be something valid to do when not combating and it will be in a level ilk so modules can level and perform better.
• Control points and how it's important to make the new features for everyone -- not only PVP but PVE players too
• Tom tells us how he loves player customization and more options such as progressive armour and weapons like the new shotgun
• He also tells us how repeatable content such as instances, PvP maps and the like outside of the main game are things he'd like to see in the next few months.
• Tom tells us about his favorite class and his favorite TR moment when playing on the live servers
• All members of the team have a big interest in the game because they play it and are therefore invested.
• And more!

• Disney land was built on MMO principles?
• Tom Potter Interview, we need your questions
• Feedback Friday and the AFS War College
• NCSoft Europe Podcast 3 is a Tabula Rasa Delight!
• Tabula Rasa is now available on DLGamer

This week on TabulaCast, John & Matt are joined by Shawn off of the internet!

Topics covered include:

• John's Real Life Control Point Battle
• John & Matt's visit to NCSoft Europe
• Feedback Friday including 'The Bubble'
• Planet TR's 2nd Birthday
• Listener Emails

Thanks for downloading and don't forget to check out John's Blog!

• The New Test map on PTS
• 2008 AFS War College
• Planet TR and Ten Ton Hammer are nice places to be right now!
• A new Friends system
• Project Immersion
• Listener email

and more...

Be sure to check out the forums and John's blog. 

• The news of deployment 8 and the up and coming deployment 9
• Warcry Q & A with Tom potter
• The CELLAR fighting arena
• We continue to try out Beau's Immersion Project for ourselves, listeners also seem to like the idea as we read an email on the subject.
• The competition winner is announced
• We ramble again about more TR ideas that could exist!
• I talk to player Alex about the demolitionist , for a long overdue class discussion

Theme tune for this week is Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor