Free Allegiance Zone

FAZ stands for "Free Allegiance Zone" which is a joining of two terms originally used to segregate this community under Microsoft's rule: "Free Zone" and "Allegiance Zone" The term is used to describe a new version of Allegiance which is being developed by the community.

Until now, everyone has been playing with the Allegiance game written and compiled by Microsoft 5 years ago. Since then, no changes have been made to the game.

Two years ago, Microsoft released the sourcecode to our community which allowed us to finally start modifying the game however we wanted... unfortunately this code was still written to use a 1999 compiler, and did not offer an easy way to work with it in modern development environments. The code was almost useless to us in its state.

Even if we wanted to modify the game, we couldn't because we weren't even able to reproduce regular Allegiance let alone create an enhanced Allegiance.

Since then, the FAZ Dev team has worked on changing Microsoft's sourcecode to compile with todays compilers under today's development environments. It's pretty much done now, and we're finally able to create our own stable build of Allegiance. This allows us to finally start adding features that have been requested for the last 5 years, and correct bugs/errors that have been plaguing us.

The first release from the FAZ Dev team (R1) did not change much from Microsoft's original. Its purpose was to duplicate the original functionality without introducing new bugs or problems. However, a few simple changes were made to increase stability and add small much-needed enhancements. The second release (R2) made many more changes to Allegiance. A full listing of all changes made to Allegiance since Microsoft released the sourcecode is listed below.

FAZ Development	About Free Allegiance Zone Releases: R1 · R2 · R3 · R4 · R5 · R6  · (current)R7 Allegiance R8: What's new? · Build it! Testing Beta: Overview · Testing procedure