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Deadfoot wrote:QUOTE (Deadfoot @ Jun 22 2009, 08:04 AM) Warning: The following post may or may not be too long.

Where to start?... My story like all stories begin with Battlestar Galactica. So I had just finished watching all the seasons and thought to myself that it would be so cool if there was a game with spaceships and such. But I thought it would be too difficult to make such a game and called myself an idiot and then ran to the corner and wept. After I had said sorry to myself I thought I could check on what you call, "the internet" for such a game, so I sat down in front of the computer and turned it on.

After a couple of hours of porn I found a blog which listed all free mmo's available and in it I saw 'Allegiance: Space combat... something'. I thought, wow, that could be cool and clicked and downloaded and started playing it. I began with the tutorials first and then moved on to the online matches. Needless to say I pwnd... did i say pwn, I meant I was pwnd. So I thought, $#@! it, and gave up.

After a few months I felt guilty for not trying hard enough and decided to start again (no it was not because I had no other games to play and was bored out of my skull.. crap did I type that out loud). Anyway I started it up again a few weeks ago and I had a good game or two. Yes, I was useless and had more ejects than points, but that is not my point.

My point is that I fell in love with the game and I decided to stop being useless and do something about it, so long story short I have joined the 'Cadet-A' program and hope that in time I can be a valuable part to any team and you'll accept me into your family like a brother... *sob* maybe I should stop now before I really start crying. But srsly, this is an awesome game and... umm... well... thats all I had to say actually.

Cheers,

Deadfoot

P.S. This took me a few days to come up with, so hope you like it. Also one more thing... in-game I have a number next to my name, eg Deadfoot(2), I am guessing its my rank but anyway to get rid of it?.

raingriffin wrote:QUOTE (raingriffin @ Jul 3 2009, 01:03 PM) Finally i get to the main planet. (have had some graphical issues to fix, not to mention some conn troubles ecc ecc, so i spent the time reading up cadet 1 stuff, and academy, and storyline ^^

As for me, i'm new to alleg, found it out after looking for space games with an affinity to freelancer, or wing commander or elite... actually what made me decide to give it a go was the overly underlined fact that alleg's about teamplay. So i wanted to know what kind of teamwork that was, and i ended up reading more than i should, to keep my social life alive.

I'm a player of the original wing commander and any sequel i was able to get ahold of (not everything made it on the shelves here in Italy). Also i was an enthusiastic player of the Elite series (if you haven't recharged your H fuel tanks by letting yourself balance out your thrusters against the giant grav or speeding through a star's corona you haven't really seen anything about it) i do play some fps too, but frag for its sake ain't really all that fun unless you just want an adrenaline fix.

Still i was checking today and my piloting skills seem to be especially underdeveloped (bet you were able to save the miner in your nanite training mission... well i wasn't), still having trouble with the lousy precision through vectored flight... hopefully i won't suck as bad with a lil practice.

That said, i hope i'll be able to get along fine enough ( can't wait to stealth around in a scout in enemy territory).

See you (hopefully) in game!

Andarvi wrote:QUOTE (Andarvi @ Jul 3 2009, 09:06 AM) Also the first thing you do, should be to get the custom keyboard layout that you'll find in the reading material.. it only works in real games though, not the training missions.

raingriffin wrote:QUOTE (raingriffin @ Jul 3 2009, 02:03 PM) I'm a player of the original wing commander and any sequel i was able to get ahold of (not everything made it on the shelves here in Italy).

raingriffin wrote:QUOTE (raingriffin @ Jul 3 2009, 02:23 PM) actually, i already remapped as soon as i was able to take those missions after the graphical mess, as freebeer was saying i had troubles because once i remapped keys were out of sync and i wasn't able to proceed cause i set space as the mouse switch key, thus removing it from the original function... mission asked to press space but... ah well ^^ as for the mechanics i am working on getting used to the various interfaces as we speak, so i won't be in a "real" game, for a while. as for cadet, i was thinking about joining in, but i'd hate not to be able to participate in a training session i could have programmed: i tend to have a weird timed schedule, that's why i was trying to get the most on my own, before i start bothering someone

Adept wrote:QUOTE (Adept @ Jul 3 2009, 02:40 PM) Allegiance is worth the climging the learning curve mountain.

HSharp wrote:QUOTE (HSharp @ Jul 3 2009, 04:27 PM) What I don't get is why when people illustrate Allegiance as having a steep learning curve they have skill on the y axis and time on the x axis when it should be the other way round.

Adept wrote:QUOTE (Adept @ Jul 3 2009, 04:40 PM) Excellent. I also cut my teeth on Elite when I was tiny, and am a rabid fan of Wing Commander, especially the last one, Wing Commander Prophecy. If you never got that, you should look for it. It's still great.

But Allegiance is better. This game is what Ive been hoping for ever since Elite, and it's lost none of it's charm since 2000. Welcome aboard. Allegiance is worth the climging the learning curve mountain.