Oh yeah, I remember reading a post-mortem on Tabula Rasa. The game that ended up being made was something cobbled together in the last year or so of development by the long-suffering development team that bore almost no relation whatsoever to the original ideas that had been proposed, or the stuff that had been done in the 5 years or so of development up to that point. Given that, the developers ended up speed-building the framework of a pretty decent MMO and it's a shame it never had enough support to keep it going. I still remember those ad hoc base battles fondly, and the way the enemy spawns used to dropship in.
