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Welcome to Microsoft® Allegiance™!

Thank you for installing Microsoft Allegiance. This readme file contains the most recent information concerning Allegiance. It also includes late-breaking information not contained in the manual or in-game Help.

Most commonly asked

Community Forum accounts are not the same as Gameplay accounts.

The account you used to view the forums and download the game cannot be used to play. To create a new gameplay or “ASGS” account, go to http://asgs.alleg.net/asgsnet/newaccount.aspx

Do NOT use your account on a friend’s computer.

Doing so will result in your accounts being linked, and you won't be able to play at the same time anymore. This is a feature required to ensure a secure system.

Allegiance is a TEAM-based game.

Players must work together to complete goals, and commanders may eject players who are not contributing to their teams to make space for other players who will.

All new players will have a number appended to their name for the first few weeks.

This shows everyone that you are inexperienced, and thus they can be more lenient. The more you play, the faster you'll lose it.

After training, learn basic gameplay and technology on the Newbie servers.

Learn how to contribute to a team and how to use the technology. Once you've mastered the basics, join the vets and don't look back. Bad habits are formed when learning from the inexperienced.

Do not join a real game when trying to "figure out the controls" or "learn how to play."

That is what the Newbie servers are for. Only join real games if you are able to contribute to your team.

You must spend time to learn the game.

Reading the Learning guide) and joining the Allegiance Flight School significantly reduces the amount of learning time needed in game.

Use the built-in display censor.

The censor converts profanity to useless characters (e.g. !@#$!). If you didn't want to see it, didn't disable it.

Games with an imbalanced skill are NOT fun.

If you're new, don't join the team with the most new players. If you're skilled, don't join the team with all of the @Squad players. Stacking the skill on one side removes the fun for 2/3 of the players.

Don't let the “bad apples” ruin your fun.

As with all communities, Allegiance has "good apples" and "bad apples." If you feel that someone is targeting you specifically to cause you discomfort, report them to @Alleg.

Online answers to your questions

There are several great sources for answers to any questions you might have about Allegiance.

Allegiance Product Support

If you have questions about Allegiance (such as on installation, graphics issues, and so forth), go to http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums and visit the helpline forum. Be sure to read the post entitled, “Read Me First”.

Allegiance Administrators

You will notice administrators in Allegiance with a @HQ tag at the end of their names. Administrators are there to enforce the Rules of Conduct. Members of the Allegiance Administrators team are may also be able to assist you with account and registration issues.

Rules of Conduct/Terms of Service enforcement

You will notice players in Allegiance with @Alleg at the end and a question mark (?) at the beginning of their names. @Allegs are there to offer help to players in Allegiance as well as to enforce the Rules of Conduct/Terms of Service. Members of @Alleg team are volunteers that are familiar with Allegiance and they may be able to help get you started.

Troubleshooting

Anytime you can post on helpline forum at http://www.freeallegiance.org/forum

The most common problems are listed below.

Most common problems

Repair critical files

Within ASGS open Help menu and select Update / Repair critical files.

Run Allegiance as administrator

Right-click on Allegiance shortcut and select Run as administrator.

Redownload and reinstall

Sometimes you need to completely uninstall the game and install it with the latest installer from http://getsetup.alleg.net

Auto-update issues

Allegiance features auto-updating, which allows changes to be made to the game files on your computer after you have logged in.

Disable offline mode of Internet Explorer

Start Internet Explorer and open File menu (press ALT + F) and uncheck Work offline.

Change your Internet Explorer proxy settings

Open Control Panel and go to Internet Options, open Connections tab and click on LAN settings. See if you connection is correctly set up, normally there shouldn't be any settings set.

Controler issues

Joystick rolls upon entering the game

With some joysticks, you may be rolling from the time you first enter the game. To fix this, reconfigure the default roll control on your joystick to a new control. To do this, press ESC, G, C, scroll to the bottom of the Configure Controls dialog box, double-click Roll, and then follow the instructions at the top of the dialog box.

3D card issues

There are a number of known issues for 3D graphics accelerators. If a problem affects all or most cards of a particular chipset, the chipset is listed, but if it only affects specific cards of a chipset, then the card name and chipset are listed.

• Intel GMA xxx
• SiS chipset

Development team is working on solution on this.

Connection issues

The most common connectivity issues are listed below.

Firewall Port Configuration

Some firewalls (like Norton, AVG, ...) do block DirectPlay protocol, which Allegiance uses. There is no way making Allegiance work, while having these Firewalls installed, even disabling them doesn't help.