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==Allegiance Zone== | ==Allegiance Zone== | ||
Allegiance Zone was provided by Microsoft when they supported the game. It required a monthly subscription to play on, but had more factions and a statistics system. Large | Allegiance Zone was provided by Microsoft when they supported the game. It required a monthly subscription to play on, but had more factions and a statistics system. Large [[Zone Games]] were organised on the Allegiance Zone which affected the ongoing storyline of the Allegiance universe. Since paying customers were more dedicated, it also gained more experienced players. | ||
==Free Zone== | ==Free Zone== | ||
Revision as of 23:38, 14 February 2008
Allegiance Zone
Allegiance Zone was provided by Microsoft when they supported the game. It required a monthly subscription to play on, but had more factions and a statistics system. Large Zone Games were organised on the Allegiance Zone which affected the ongoing storyline of the Allegiance universe. Since paying customers were more dedicated, it also gained more experienced players.
Free Zone
Free Zone was also provided by Microsoft and was, unsurprisingly, free to play on. It did not include the Belter nor Rixian factions, and had a limited number of servers to play upon.
The Merging
Temporary
In July of the first year (2000?) the Allegiance Zone was opened up to all players. This caused server overload and heavy lag, creating the opposite effect of what MicroSoft wanted - it drove away more players. AZ went back to its pay-to-play status.
Permeantly
In June 2001 MicroSoft dropped Allegiance. They removed player authentication, Allegiance Zone and all its features, allowed Free Zone to use Belters and Rixians, and bumped up the max server limit to 64 for Free Zoners.
Free Allegiance Zone
Since the release of the source code in Febuary 2004 the community took this name upon itself, endeavouring to bring back all the features of AZ, fix bugs, and create new features; while still retaining Allegiance as a free game.
