AfterWorld

1. WHAT IS AW?
AW stands for AfterWorld, MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) with a 3D post-apocalyptic-style world and elements of FPS (First-Person Shooter) and RPG (Role-Playing Game) merged together to offer a unique gameplay. On release it is planned to implement in AW a RCE (Real Cash Economy).

2. WHICH STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT IS AW CURRENTLY AT?
Currently AW is at the final stages of Alpha-testing. Then goes Beta-testing and then goes Release. During development stages AW Team will assign or reassign alpha/beta-tester groups giving FREE accounts and allowing access to live AW worlds to volunteer testers. In no way can such an account be treated as a working service account as long as AW is constantly undergoing multiple upgrades and modifications. Although we will put our best effort to preserve the consistency and integrity of testers' accounts during alpha and beta testing we still cannot provide commercial-grade guarantees during the mentioned period. Please comprehend that during Alpha and Beta testing we are putting all systems in a highly stressful mode and then analyze various faults in order to avoid them in future. So we hope our efforts and your kind understanding, support and contribution will soon make AW the best game to play.

3. COULD YOU PROVIDE INFORMATION ON ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL?
Generally, no. Direct questions and posts concerning any estimates or ETA of any subsequent stage or particular feature will be kindly disregarded according to our information policy. It is not about conspiracy but because in some cases we may wish to allow some flexibility in planning our development schedule. If we wish to announce some upcoming releases we usually communicate such news with approximate details through soc leaders. Please contact your soc to get more info on the topic of your particular interest.

4. HOW DO I GET IN?
Currently we offer FREE registration for newcomers. You can find the registration form on MyAccount page: http://alpha.afterworld.ru/account/. However, at any moment before Release the new registration may be limited or discontinued depending on testing demands. In case you cannot play AW right away and unable to get an account immediately, please be sure, there are no other people on Earth and in AW who want you to play this game ASAP more than we do. So we will appreciate your patience and try to bring your login to you at the earliest.

5. I'M IN :) SO WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?
Most of you can scroll this one a little down. For those who entering AW for the first time I would highly recommend to press F1 MB (Magic Button) as often as you got any how-to questions and Ctrl-O as you may wish to tune-up your software options. If you can't find it, ask a friend. All other questions you should ask to each other. This is the way we promote free communication in AW. There are no general rules or "sceneries" in AW. Maybe once you become an uber player you will create ones. Meanwhile try to discover the worlds, communicate with the others and create teams and socs. Please also remember, you are now an AW Tester and AW is not yet a commercial service. Sometimes it may be not easy to connect and to get around. Minor failures and lags are still available. Sometimes the system is being especially put in such a tight mode to recover different failures and bugs. So before Release please treat it as a world of a constant adventure rather than a commercial service. If you encounter any bug, problem or failure, please report it immediately to support@afterworld.ru. If possible attach a screenshot and/or a log file of your session.

6. WILL THERE BE THE VEHICLE/SKILL/REPUTATION/YOU-NAME-IT-HERE SYSTEMS IN AW?
Not to take all your available time and disk space I will put it here short: AW will be absolutely UNIQUE. Unique in terms of combination of all imaginable features a contemporary MMOG can offer. Along with those you already know you will be able to enjoy skill, reputation, society, team, legal, political, vehicle, land & building ownership, business, family and more systems in AW. We are planning AW to become high-integrity complex world with many features of the real world. But please allow us to introduce new features step-by-step preserving the most fragile thing in MMO world - its gameplay which we want to make for you to enjoy. Although we will be very accurate introducing new features we will be actively listening to an AW growing community on its needs and wants. So if you feel that AW badly needs some feature feel free to communicate your concept to community and listen to a feedback. All good things will be here technology permitted. We created AW because each of us loves to play exactly as you do.

7. WHAT IS PROMOTED IN AW?
We want to make AW world for you not only to play, but to live in, if you know what I mean. So we highly encourage friendly communications and society organizations. Feel free to form teams, then unite in your socs, create your rules and organize unique gameplay. We support socs now and we will support them even better in a future. For now we offer offices for socs where you can put your logo at the entrance, have your meetings with the convenience of a separate room with a storage. More features including but not limited to soc areas, soc database and search/enrollment system coming soon. We also leave it to socs to explore the worlds of AW and make any kind of guides and maps. You can publish your materials on your soc's website. Best contributions will be published on AW official website and the most proactive socs will be granted awards.

8. WHAT IS PROHIBITED IN AW?
Believe us, we try to avoid this word here, we actually hate it. But this is a nature of human society that one should to prohibit some things in order for society to develop and prosper. So there are rules. But these rules are very simple and very short: MAKE THIS WORLD A PARADISE FOR YOURSELF WHILE NOT MAKING IT A MESS FOR THE OTHERS. Of course this is too general but this is it. We as an AW Government will be watching what is going on and what societies are doing to make this world a better place. So we will support any soc's and civil initiatives aimed at improving the rules. Finally, we will adopt so called "Civil Code" and "Criminal Code" in many ways similar to real ones, but also in many ways specified to the needs of AW community. Those who will follow the Codes will be treated with Good Reputation. Those who will choose to take an opposite side will have good chances to enjoy AW Jail and Bad Reputation stamp in ID. Meanwhile, before these light (or dark) ages has come, just try to be friendly to others, helping noobs to make a good start and avoid strong lexicon while in chat.

9. WILL I NEED TO PAY FOR AW AFTER RELEASE?
There will be no regular subscription fee. But as long as AW is RCE world you will probably fell the need to purchase some items or make some in-game transactions that require service fees. For that purpose you will be able to deposit funds on your AW account. Once you have earned some money in game you will also have an option to withdraw funds from your in-game account to the real one. Please wait for official rules and EULA to know more about RCE and real cash transactions in AW.

10. WHAT ABOUT SECURITY?
We constantly monitor our system and use the best tools available in order to provide the best data security technology can offer to date. We can ensure you that even during alpha testing you data are already very secure. The unauthorized access to or disclosure of user data are virtually impossible. However due to the nature of Alpha and Beta stages you data may be affected by inner testing procedures. That's why during Alpha and Beta we do not provide commercial grade guarantees of any kind and EULA level of service. As to your payment, credit card and bank account details which will be used from the time of Release - although we would provide high grade of security, you should know that we will not even hold these sensitive data on our servers. They will be directly and securely transferred from your local computers to the certified processing center which we will use for the transaction clearing. All sensitive information transfers and financial transactions between your machine, our servers and processing center are being encrypted with a very strong cryptographic algorithms using 1024 and 2048-bit keys.

11. DO YOU COLLECT AND USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use and collect your personal information which you provide at the time of registering an account only for the purposes of providing the services outlined in EULA. We do not use and collect your personal information for the purposes outside the scope of EULA, neither we provide such information to any third parties or use it in any other way.

12. IN WHICH CASE CAN YOU DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In case we receive an official written request from the state legal or government authorities of any origin and nature we use the right to inform our user about such a request before disclosing any information that we should legally provide under the law. However such information can at maximum contain user registration data and cannot contain user financial details and/or transaction data as long as AW from fiscal point of view is an integral service. All AW inflows are treated as service fees. However, in case of withdrawals, you should carefully choose from available withdrawal methods in order to preserve you current tax management scheme.

13. CAN I CREATE MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS?
No. No. And No. And you don't want to do it. Because first, AW is a RCE, where you have to create your physical cash account, which is simply impossible to do twice, and second, we do not support multiple identity as AW in some sense is a simulation of a real world, where social aspect is most important and multiple identity would simply break social connections. If in any way you are not satisfied with your current identity and would like to change it or create a new one please post a message to support@afterworld.ru, we will try to offer the most convenient and appropriate solution for your case. We will not perform a special database scan to monitor and recover the multiple account existence until Release. However, if occasionally such accounts will be found AW Team retains the right to suspend them until a new duly completed account creation form will be received from their holder.

14. WHAT ABOUT THE POSSIBLE FEATURES OF MY AVATAR?
You will have a lot of features. You currently have avatars of v.2 which I should admit are far from perfection both male and female. Though female looks much better to me. Our modeling and animation gurus are currently busy with the next generation of avatars which will offer most expected features and beyond. Apart from gender and more haircut options you will be able to tune-up your avatar's metrics and facial features and enjoy a number of new physical and social animations.

15. WHICH 3D TECHNOLOGY AW IS USING?
Currently AW is using licensed and heavily modified Torque Game Engine V.1.5. This is the latest version of an award winning 3D engine and in our opinion the best 3D Engine by the price/quality/features ratio available on the market these days. Our modeling and animation is made using Maya and 3DSMax. We use a number of other industry leading tools to bring you the quality 3D environment.

16. WHAT IS A SERVER CONFIGURATION AW IS USING?
We currently running scalable SUN MICROSYSTEMS server cluster powered by Linux operating system.

17. WHICH PLATFORMS I CAN PLAY AW ON?
Thanks to multiplatform capabilities of the 3D engine we use, you will be able to run AW on all contemporary platforms such as Windows, UNIX, MacOS and some portable platforms like XBox and the like. However, UNIX and MacOS versions of the client will be available upon public Beta.

18. WHAT ARE THE MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS?
Recommended Windows system is following:
Windows XP
1.4GHz Athlon or Pentium
512 MB RAM
OpenGL 3D Graphics Accelerator w/128 MB RAM

19. WHAT IS AW TEAM?
AW Team consists of core team members and a number of freelancers we attract for the different stages of development. Our core team members are responsible for various game design/development tasks such as general management, programming, hardware and software, conceptual art design, level and static object design, modeling and animation. At the time of Release, just before it, AW Team will hold a public presentation for the AW Community, media and public. At that time the official company name and core staff members will be represented.

20. CAN I DONATE TO AW?
If you want to support AW Project at the development stages you can make a donation. There is no minimum and maximum limits. However please do not consider the funds you donate as funds which should appear on your test account if you do not have prior documented confirmation of such a possibility of AW Team. Currently the only online payment system that is available for donation transfers is the Russian system Webmoney. As long as we know it doesn't support international transactions from most European countries and Americas and may be suitable for local transfers only. We are in process of registering a PayPal and 2CheckOut payment gateways which are believed to be come available in late January, 2007. Until that international community members can use Western Union worldwide money transfer service to send donations. To avoid any possible inconvenience and lost donations please arrange your donation details with AW Team by sending a message to support prior to make any transfers.

= MANY THANKS TO THE CONTRIBUTORS OF THE GROWING AW COMMUNITY =

• un-Official AfterWorld Community
• AfterWorld - official web-site