Server

NOTE: Release 4 of the game will allow single player games

Players are continuously asking others on how to setup their own game server, how to practice their own command skills without having to take over the only game, seeking first an experience at command, and then simply playing around with new cores, ships, pictures, etc.

First, all those players must get their hands on the Allegiance Server Setup package, which includes the following files:

• ASW.exe: The Allegiance Switcher is used to switch your game and server to the new, community's lobby.
• AGM.exe: The Allegiance Game Manager allows you to set all of the game and server properties from the number of miners per team to the core played on the server.
• instructions.txt: This file contains simple instructions concerning each software included in the ZIP file.
• SrvSetup.exe: This is the Microsoft Server Installer.

Now that you've unzipped all those files, start by installing the Allegiance Server through SrvSetup.exe. The server will install itself in your Allegiance folder. You must now update it.

To update your server, open ASW.exe and switch your server to MyAllegiance, and then Quit the program. Your server should now be able to connect itself to the community's lobby, not Microsoft's (which no longer exists).

Now, you can update your server by creating a public game. The server will connect itself to the community lobby and automatically update itself.

Now that your game and server use the same version of Allegiance, you can create a game and connect to it through a LAN connection. Open Allegiance (not ASGS) as many times as you want using the -multi command. Each Allegiance game can connect to your server with a different name, and you can, for example, play a 1 on 1 to train your command skills. The -windowed command is optional, allowing Allegiance to play in windowed mode (same as Alt-Enter), useful to switch between Allegiance games. Note that your screen must be set to 16 bit color for Allegiance to run in windowed mode.

Now that your setup is complete, you can use AGM.exe to play with the properties of Allegiance. Set the resources to incredibly high amounts and start the game with over 100k credits, use your own maps (use AME, Allegiance Map Editor, to create maps), use different cores (use ICE, IGC Core Editor, to explore/edit cores), etc.