AFS recruits, form up - there's a news bulletin that's just been released on the official NCsoft Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa website, and it concerns you and your experience rates. The deal is that if you take the time and effort to create squads and work together (get some co-operation going there, too), then you'll be rewarded with double XP rates. Yes, you'll get double the experience points with every kill, so long as you're in a squad!

But if you've always toughed it out alone, well, you can still take advantage of this by signing up a friend or two into the AFS Recruit a Rookie program. They'll be given their very own account for a free five day trial period - and if they do subscribe, then it's a month's worth of free credit for you.

You not only get squadmates AND double the experience, but also a month's worth of game time. That's awesome, right there.

Bit of notice for the double XP period though. It begins in May 5 and ends in May 12, so if you want to take advantage, well, you'd better start rounding up all your buddies. Updates as we get them!