Hey Fox, long time no see!
I made a post yesterday *somewhere* about people I haven't seen in a long time. I forgot to put you in it...luckily I didn't need to!
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It's true that me and Winter haven't played Allegiance in a long while, and when we did we were killed off by Skeeter due to a lack of communication on the Feds' part, a lack of experience and understanding of the game on our part, a complete lack of walkthrough guides, and a little white lie on Nem's part.
That lie really cost us...
Anyways, if you've ever played any browser-based games like X-Wars, you'll have an idea of what Allegiance will be like. I was completely addicted to Allegiance when I was playing, and i'm certainly looking forward to the first beta test. (Or at least the next alpha, hint hint Nem...
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Whilst Allegiance will be a port of BOTF, due to the multiplayer nature of the game, you WON'T be in control of an alliance anymore - instead, you will be in control of one of the alliance's Planets. (You can take more later on in the game)
When you begin, you will have a simple ship laden full of colonists. You have to find a Planet as quickly as you possibly can and claim it for your own.
Once that is done, you have to set some mining drones to mine either metals or fuels. Metals and fuels can be used (In a ratio of 4 metals to 3 fuels) to make electronics which can then be used to make fighters (I believe these will be renamed to Phasers or something to make it more like Trek) Your colonists do the actual building of fighters - so the more colonists you have, the more fighters you are capable of producing. You also get more taxes by having more colonists!
Turns in the game will be the number of actions your ship can perform per hour. There will be a set amount of turns per hour, although you can win more turns in Ferengi auction houses on your Starbases - if you're extremely lucky!
As you move your ships from one Planet to the next, (Or even just load and unload cargo) you will use up some of your available turns. Once the turns are used up, you CANNOT do anything until the next maintenance occurs. (Which *should* be every hour once the server is up and running)
When a maintenance occurs, you will gain some extra turns, a small amount of taxes from your colonists, and an amount of metals and/or fuels depending on how many mining drones you have. These resources will then be used to make Electronics. (Which are needed to build fighters and are the most valuable resource in the game, although the cost of Electronics is NOT currently equal to or above the cost of the individual resources needed to make electronics.
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Once built, fighters are then used to defend either your Planets or your fleets - and the more the better.
You can also load your gained resources onto your ship and take them to the nearest Starbase (Once you've found it!) to sell them for money. You can then use this money to buy more mining drones, colonists, ships, ship upgrades, special ship systems, or special structures...
Don't ask me what happens when you win a battle though...
I hope thats enough info to keep you satisfied...
