Hello and welcome to Allegiance!
Allegiance can be a very challenging but rewarding game. Fortunately, we're here to help you get started on your journey from clueless noob to merciless vet! In this forum feel free to ask any question related to Allegiance, there's a wealth of knowledge available and waiting to help you out.
There's a couple initial things you can do right now to enhance your journey:
If you are having some difficulties getting Allegiance to work, there's a helpline forum right here. Be sure to check the wiki for your problem before posting!
The best place to start in Allegiance is by doing the training missions. These are on the first main screen once you log in at the bottom left hand corner.
Once you've completed those, go sign up for cadet. The link is right here http://cadet.freeallegiance.org/
Mumble is the primary chat client in our community, here is a link to the wiki article with the connection and download info http://www.freeallegiance.org/FAW/index.php/Mumble. This can be one of the best ways to learn the game, people who play on mumble consistantly improve faster than those who don't.
There are also many user created graphics upgrades that are available. There's several links for this such as Zero_Falcons post here, and Blacksun's post here.
If you have any questions feel free to post in this forum, otherwise good luck and I hope to see you in game!