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Welcome to the best game you never played! Allegiance is a free, online, multi-player space simulation game. You pilot spacecraft, flying in a team with other players, defending and attacking sectors in space. Your team is led by a Commander who makes tactical decisions and invests in technology and bases. Flight and combat is done in first person view in a 3D environment, with a real-time, top-down 'Command view' of your immediate surroundings also available.

In this tutorial I will teach you the basic steps to fly an aircraft. I assume you have allegiance already installed, if not read Begin_playing first.

Joining a Game

When you log on to Allegiance, there may already be a game going. If the upper right hand corner displays "Time elapsed" and a counter the game is already underway! All you have to do is join a team.

But which team should you join? Take a look at each team's tab. They will look something like this:

Team 1 (12/100)[131]

What this means is that there are 12 people on Team 1. There can be up to 100 people on this team, and the sum of the ranks of all the players on that team is 131.

As a new player, you want to join the team with the higher aggregate rank to keep both sides as balanced as possible. Sometimes, however, you will not be able to join this team, because it has more players than the other team. If that happens, it may be a good idea to wait for a more skilled player to join the weaker team first.

Sometimes you may log on to Allegiance and there will be lots of people in the lobby, but no game going. Please be patient! This can sometimes be frustrating for new players, but it's probably just people need to take a short break from the previous game. There is usually some downtime between games as players want to discuss the previous game, get a snack, change teams, etc.

How to Communicate

A chatbox with 'Team 1' as the target and 'Wis' as the message

To talk to your teammates begin by pressing Enter. This brings up two boxes. The one on the left indicates your target (such as 'Team 1', 'Command', 'All') and the one on the right is where you type your message. To cycle through your chat target press press Tab before writing anything. To pick a specific player to chat with type the first few letters of his or her name, followed by Tab. (Note that some player names begin with special characters such as * or ^, which must be included for name-completion to work).

You can also send short radio messages via the Voice Chat menu, which is accessed via the ~ key.

Through the course of the game you will frequently see the commander (or sometimes other players) issuing you orders in bright red text which can be "accepted" with the INS key. You can safely ignore most of these orders for the time being because the vast majority are not for you, but for your teammates in distant sectors. Once you get more accustomed to the game these orders will be very important for team coordination — but since you are new, don't worry about them right now.

Basic controls:

Switch to mouse control	Num Pad 0
Full speed	/
Halt	Backspace

What's Next

This simple introduction has just barely scratched the surface. Hopefully by now you know enough to not be totally lost while you're trying to figure out what's going on. Allegiance is a very complex game, with a steep learning curve. (But that's what makes it so fun! ;))

Here's some ways you can learn more:

• People with @Alleg or @Help in their callsigns are here to help you! If you see them, feel free to ask them questions at any time in-game.
• Not a fast typer? Get on Teamspeak! There's almost always someone online who can help get you up to speed.
• Sign up for Allegiance Flight School, a structured course for new players.
• Want to feel less of a noob? Check out this page on common mistakes.
• Learn more about the nine main factions in Allegiance, each of which has its own unique characteristics.
• Learn about the five techpaths, each of which leads to a different way of winning the game.
• Learn about all the different types of ship you can fly in Allegiance.