Richard
Garriott's Tabula Rasa
Science fiction MMORPG
Instance map: Fault Lever
Running along
Ligo Fault Rift, the Bane have
constructed four seismic hammers that create powerful
earthquakes. Faced with this serious threat to the
southern AFS base, the players are ordered to investigate
the underground facility controlling the hammers and shut
them down. Unknown to AFS intelligence, the local Atta
colonies have burrowed into the facility as well looking to
find the source of their agitation.
The following
excerpts are from my January 2008 interview with RPG
Vault/IGN.com on this map. The interview can be found
here.
"It was pretty
clear how to begin Fault Lever’s design because the
associated shared map, Thunderhead, had all of the relative
environmental features I wanted to incorporate. The design
document called for an underground instance map connected to
the north face of the massive Ligo Fault Rift. The players’
ultimate mission within this instance is to turn off the
four hammers (shockwave inducers) found within the shared
map’s rift and escape. Because the mission objectives were
closely connected to the shared map, I felt it important to
integrate visually the rift and accompanying elements into
the instance map. However, this design direction presented
unique layout challenges."
Above is the window of the East Hammer Monitoring Station
with one of the hammers nearby.
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