FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Why will there be a wipe?

A Closed Beta Character wipe is necessary for the reason that not everyone has an access to the game aside from a few players who have an account. It is only fair to the general public at the beginning of Open Beta where anyone and everyone can create an Allods Account. Character wipes are only done on Closed Beta Testing. There will be no character wipe on Open Beta and Commercial Launch.

Is my account going to be deleted?

No. You can still use your CBT account anytime during Open Beta.

Do I need to Register again?

Yes and no. Yes, because in order to take advantage of the Item Mall, you need to have a MyLU account. You can register for a MyLU account here. Also, if you did not have a chance to play during Closed Beta, you need to register for an Allods Online account too at the MyLU page.

No if you plan to use your Closed Beta account, you don’t have to register anymore but make sure you link it to your MyLU account to be able to load up if you want to shop at the Item Mall.

Can I buy Items in the Item Mall now? How?

Once the realms become available to the public, yes you can. Check out the “How to Load Up” section above to know how to get Perrah, your money to buy Item Mall Items.

Do I need to install a new client or download Allods again?

If you downloaded Allods Online already during the Closed Beta Testing, you don’t have to download the client again. Your client will work in Open Beta. You just have to patch it on the opening of Open Beta.

Still don’t have the Allods Online Client? Download it here.

When is Open Beta going to start?

We will announce it very soon at the website, forums, Twitter and Facebook page. Always be updated with the latest Allods Online Philippines news at the following pages:

• Twitter – http://twitter.com/AllodsPH
• Facebook – http://facebook.com/AllodsOnlinePH
• Community Forums – http://forums.levelupgames.ph
• Community Site – http://allods.levelupgames.ph

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Register at My Level Up! (MyLU)

• Aside from the Closed Beta Accounts, you will be able to create your very own Allods Online account very soon.
• In a few days, you can start registering for an Allods account at MyLU – https://my.levelupgames.ph

Item Mall NOW OPEN!

One of the best features of Allods is its Item Mall, and it will be available in Open Beta. Improve your gameplay, boost your experience and reputation gains or even dress up your character with the available vanity items (fashion). There are tons of items that will improve your character so make sure to have that Level Up! Game Card beside you when the realms become open to the public.

How to Load Up

You’ve got your Game Card or top-up card, now it’s time to load them up! Or if you’re not sure how to use your Level Up! Game Card, here’s some very simple steps to reap the benefits of the incoming Item Mall.

1. Login to your My Level Up! (MyLU) account. If you don’t have a MyLU yet, register now.
2. Click Add Credits on the left sidebar to be able to load up your game card.
3. Fill up the input spaces with your Level Up! Card Number and Card Pin.



4. Click “Load Up Now!”.
5. You now have Level Up! Credits that you can convert to Perrah, Allods Online’s Item Mall currency once Open Beta starts.

To convert your Level Up! Credits to Perrah (Allods’ Item Mall currency), simply click “Use Credits” at the MyLU. Conversion rate is PHP 1.00 = 10 Perrah.

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The war in the Astral is about to begin, and you can be ready by equipping yourself with knowledge. Some of it are basic and some will be keys to your new beginning in the world of Allods Online.

IMPORTANT THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT MISS

Wipe of Closed Beta Characters ONLY

• As we have announced last week, everyone will start with a Level 1 Character in Open Beta.
• Characters created during the Closed Beta has been wiped or removed.

Use your Closed Beta Account in Open Beta

• Did you register and play during the Closed Beta? You can use and login to the Open Beta Realms with the same account.
• We will give a few gifts for the Closed Beta Testers, so make sure you also check your Closed Beta account when the Open Beta begins to receive your gifts.
• You can also link your Closed Beta Account to your MyLU (https://my.levelupgames.ph) when Open Beta starts.

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Astronomers believe they've found the oldest thing they've ever seen in the universe: It's a galaxy far, far away from a time long, long ago.

Hidden in a Hubble Space Telescope photo released earlier this year is a small smudge of light that European astronomers now calculate is a galaxy from 13.1 billion years ago. That's a time when the universe was very young, just shy of 600 million years old. That would make it the earliest and most distant galaxy seen so far.

By now the galaxy is so ancient it probably doesn't exist in its earlier form and has already merged into bigger neighbors, said Matthew Lehnert of the Paris Observatory, lead author of the study published online Wednesday in the journal Nature.

"We're looking at the universe when it was a 20th of its current age," said California Institute of Technology astronomy professor Richard Ellis, who wasn't part of the discovery team. "In human terms, we're looking at a 4-year-old boy in the life span of an adult."

While Ellis finds the basis for the study "pretty good," there have been other claims about the age of distant space objects that have not held up to scrutiny. And some experts have questions about this one. But even the skeptics praised the study as important and interesting.

The European astronomers calculated the age after 16 hours of observations from a telescope in Chile that looked at light signatures of cooling hydrogen gas.

Earlier this year, astronomers had made a general estimate of 600 to 800 million years after the Big Bang for the most distant fuzzy points of light in the Hubble photograph, which was presented at an astronomy meeting back in January.

In the new study, researchers focused on a single galaxy in their analysis of hydrogen's light signature, further pinpointing the age. Garth Illingworth of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was the scientist behind the Hubble image, said it provides confirmation for the age using a different method, something he called amazing "for such faint objects."

The new galaxy doesn't have a name — just a series of letters and numbers. So Lehnert said he and colleagues have called it "the high red-shift blob. "Because it takes so long for the light to travel such a vast time and distance, astronomers are seeing what the galaxy looked like 13.1 billion years ago at a time when it was quite young — maybe even as young as 100 million years old — Lehnert said. It has very little of the carbon or metal that we see in more mature stars and is full of young, blue massive stars, he said.

What's most interesting to astronomers is that this finding fits with theories about when the first stars and galaxies were born. This galaxy would have formed not too soon after them.

"We're looking almost to the edge, almost within 100 million years of seeing the very first objects," Ellis said. "One hundred million years to a human seems an awful long time, but in astronomical time periods, that's nothing compared to the life of the stars."

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The latest entry into the range-extended sporty car market is the French-built Exagon Furtive-eGT, which is slated to go into limited production in 2012. Powered by lithium-ion batteries, the Furtive-eGT has an electric-only range of 160 to 250 miles, while an optional gas engine can extend that range to 500 miles. Exagon says the car is capable of 0 to 62 mph acceleration of 3.5 seconds and that the car has a top speed of 178 mph. The company hopes to build about 100 cars a year when it goes into full production. Unlike most EVs that use the motors to directly drive the wheels, the Furtive-eGT uses a 3-speed paddle-shift gearbox attached to a mechanical auto-locking differential.
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This first show car from Renault’s new design director Lauren van der Acker is a 2-seat pure electric sports car called the DeZir. The capital Z in the name refers to Renault’s new ZE line of electric motors—in this case it’s a 150-hp unit that accelerates the 1800-lb. car to 62 mph in about 5 seconds. Contributing to the car’s light weight is its Kevlar body, and the sleek shape gives the car an ultra-low 0.25 coefficient of drag. The rear-drive DeZir has a range of about 100 miles between charges. The car is also equipped with a Kinetic Energy Recover System (KERS) developed by the Renault Formula 1 team that provides regenerative braking.
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This is the open-top version of the 2-seat eTron coupe shown earlier this year at Detroit. The Spyder features a cut-down windscreen and is actually a plug-in hybrid with a mid-mounted 300-bhp twin-turbo V-6 diesel to boost power and extend the vehicle’s range. Weighing just 3196 lb., the eTron has two electric motors that propel this sports car to 62 mph in 4.4 seconds, while top speed is electronically limited to 155 mph. In pure electric mode, the eTron has a range of about 30 miles, while the diesel enables the vehicle to travel more than 600 miles before refueling.
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