Tabula Rasa Interview, Part One

Computer Games Online was able to track down Destination Games’ Starr Long for a new interview about their upcoming sci-fi MMORPG, Tabula Rasa.

Q: How many NPC allies will players have to help them in large-scale battles? How many players can join in one battle?

A: The number of NPC allies varies wildly across the game depending on where you are and what is going on. In heavily contested zones there are many allies. These allies will scale based on events and player population. Some instanced missions also have many NPCs but others might only have a few. In addition, the numbers vary based on the dynamic events in the game. For instance, you might get a mission to storm an occupied hill. You can choose to charge up that hill with just you and your group or you might have side missions like clearing a landing pad’s radar dish of an alien virus so that more dropships can land which, in turn, will provide more NPCs for your charge up that hill. We hope that the numbers of NPCs and players combined on any given large map will be in the hundreds.