ASGS guide
ASGS (Allegiance Secure Gameplay System) is the program that performs user authentication and cheat protection duties for Allegiance. It also provides error logging and chat logging facilities.
This article describes how to use it. If you wish to learn more about it, visit ASGS.
Get a New Account
If you already have an ASGS account, you can skip this section.
Note Forum accounts and game accounts are not linked. You must have a separate game account (ASGS) to login to our servers and play Allegiance. However, you do want to have matching ingame and forum account names: this is a requirement for joining the Cadet programs.
- Go to this page.
- Read and agree to the Code of Conduct.
- Fill in the form. For the nickname, you are limited to 3-12 characters of only letters, numbers and underscores and the first character must be a letter. Nicknames are case insensitive.
Warning! Doublecheck your email address. We will send you an activation email.
- Click "Create Account".
- Within a few minutes you will receive a validation email from asgs@alleg.net. Click on the activation link.
If everything went fine, you can now proceed to login.
Login
- Open the Allegiance link that was created on your desktop during installation, or click on ASGSClient.exe in your \Allegiance directory.
- Enter your login details.
- The Username field is not case sensitive: all of "Pook", "pook", "POOK", "PoOk" will be accepted.
- Press "Login".
If everything went fine ASGS will login and within a few moments and you'll find yourself looking at Allegiance. If something went wrong, try the Tech Support section of this Wiki.
Alternative Callsigns creation
A "hider" is an alternative callsign that a player can use to disguise his identity, for example to rejoin a game you have been booted from. The procedure is very straightforward.
- Create a new account as you already did. You don't have to use the same email address.
- Log in with it.
Note Each player is allowed up to three alternative callsigns. In case a player has more than three hiders, he may only use the three oldest hiders. The alternative "hider" callsigns will be reset occasionally.
If everything went fine ASGS will recognize that you logged in with this new account from the same computer which you previously logged in with using your primary callsign, and will assume the two callsigns belong to the same person. The two callsigns will be linked and ASGS will treat them as a single account.
Warning! Never allow anyone else to login to Allegiance from your computer. We automatically enforce a requirement of one player per computer. One player can play from multiple computers, but more than one player logging in on the same computer will cause Allegiance to link the accounts together - even if the times of logging in were months apart.
ASGS Options
This is a description of all the options within the ASGS program.
ASGS
- Logging - Controls how much information is tracked by ASGS in the information pane.
- Off - No actions are recorded in the log.
- Normal - Normal logging, where check-ins, crashes and such are recorded.
- Debug - Extensive logging, where everything from DLL calls to events are recorded.
- Connection Port - Sets the port that ASGS uses to connect to the server.
- Direct Play - The default DirectPlay ports are used (2300-2400)
- HTTP - Port 80 is used.
- USE IE Proxy Settings - ASGS should use the same proxy that Internet Explorer does.
- Auto-minimize - Causes ASGS to minimize when Allegiance is launched.
- Launch Allegiance - Launches Allegiance
- Clear Callsign History - This clears all the Callsigns you have inputted into the Account field, and their associated passwords.
- Exit - Quits ASGS
- Logging - Controls how much information is tracked by ASGS in the information pane.
Allegiance
- Windowed mode - Causes Allegiances to launch in a window, rather than fullscreen.
- Log chat to disk - Logs all in-game chat to a file on your hard drive, directory: Allegiance/logs.
- Safe mode
- Beta mode - Will attempt to connect to the Beta lobby Server instead of the regular lobby server. It requires that you have the latest version of FAZ Beta installed.
Tools
- Account Manager - Opens a browser window to the ASGS database log-in page.
- Create a new account - Opens a browser window to the create new Gameplay account page.
- Set Callsign as Primary on Login - Sets the next account you log in with as your primary. It will then be what is displayed on the Leaderboard.
- Provide Player Feedback - Allows you to provide either positive or negative feedback about another player. This goes on their permanent record.
- Diagnostics - Opens a browser window to the diagnostics page. Information from this page may be requested by other people when you ask for help in the Helpline forum.
- Ban Listings - Opens a browser window to the Most Recent 15 Bans / Boots page.
- Squad Listings - Opens a browser window to the Squad Roster page.
Help
- Help & Support - Opens a page to the Helpline forum (note that you will be unable to access this without a forum account).
- Update/Repair Critical files - Repairs ASGS and Allegiance (executables (EXE and DLL) and a handful of artwork files).
- About - ASGS credits.
Problems?
Note If you haven't already, you willl need to create a FAO boards account to access the helpline forum.
