Greet­ings brethren. Not long to go now!

If you have pre-ordered, preselec­tion starts on Sat­urday 19^th Septem­ber 5AM AEST (see below for time con­ver­sion). You can make a max­imum of two char­ac­ters. Preselec­tion ends 3 hours before headstart.

Head­start begins on Monday 21^st Septem­ber 5AM AEST or at the fol­low­ing times:
Perth 3:00 AM
Adelaide 4:30 AM
Bris­bane 5:00 AM
Mel­bourne 5:00 AM
Sydney 5:00 AM
Auck­land 7:00 AM

We will be rolling on server Nezekan for retail. It is the OFFICIAL Oceanic server!

Dis­cuss on the forums

The AionAus Com­munity has voted Nezekan as the (Un)Official server!

On Septem­ber 10^th (8PM) in the #aionaus IRC chan­nel vot­ing will be held for the major­ity of Oceanic guilds and which server we will roll on come release.

The vote will con­sist of one vote per major Oceanic guild (Ours cast by Zimoi). Major­ity vote will decide where we play, learn more about it and voice off your opin­ion in the forums.

If you don’t cur­rently use IRC, I highly rec­comend it, #echocom­plex is a great place to chat with your legion mem­bers and have a good laugh/discussion while you’re at it. A guide to set­ting up on mIRC, Pidgin or simply a web cli­ent is loc­ated here.

GameSurge.net #aionaus
8 PM 10^th September

• Don’t for­get, mem­bers have until the 6^th of Septem­ber to con­firm what class they are play­ing; fail­ure to do so will res­ult in removal from the legion.

Reminder: Make sure you have read AND RESPONDED to this news.

Dates have been offi­cially announced for Open Beta, Pre-Select and Head­start. The open beta cli­ent is also now avail­able for down­load.

• Open Beta: 6-13^th September
• Pre-Select: 18^th September
• Head­start: 20^th September

Play­ers are now one step closer to the release of the year’s biggest massively mul­ti­player online (MMO) game, Aion.

Within the next four weeks, NCsoft will treat European and North Amer­ican gamers to two oppor­tun­it­ies to jump into the world of Aion and explore Atreia as Asmodian or Elyos char­ac­ters ahead of its release in Europe on 25^th Septem­ber and North Amer­ica 22^nd Septem­ber. Aion’s Open Beta Test fea­tur­ing ver­sion 1.5 will take place 6-13^th Septem­ber and will include numer­ous West­ern enhance­ments, includ­ing improve­ments to Aion’s innov­at­ive char­ac­ter cus­tom­isa­tion with a host of West­ern styles, as well as new zones, instances, skills, quests and con­tin­ued game bal­an­cing and improve­ments. Open Beta will retain a level cap for both Elyos and Asmodi­ans char­ac­ters at 30 allow­ing play­ers to focus on get­ting to the same level so they can explore the lands of Atreia together, as well as the Abyss.

Play­ers who have pre-ordered Aion will be treated to a Pre-Select and a two-day Head­start period giv­ing them the oppor­tun­ity to explore, organ­ise and pro­gress through the game prior to the offi­cial launch. Pre-Select will take place on 18^th Septem­ber, while Aion’s Head­start will begin 20^th Septem­ber. Play­ers can still par­ti­cip­ate in the Aion’s Pre-Select and Head­start pro­grams by pre-ordering the game through sev­eral par­ti­cip­at­ing online and brick-and-mortar retail­ers. For a com­plete list please go to www.aiononline.com.

Unlike any MMO before it, Aion is a uniquely craf­ted online exper­i­ence where flight offers much more than just a way to explore the land­scape – it is a stra­tegic and integ­ral part of com­bat, quests, and explor­a­tion. Play­ers will dive into battle and plunge through thou­sands of unique, story-driven quests, all while try­ing to save a world lit­er­ally shattered in half from cen­tur­ies of bru­tal con­flict. Using one of the most flex­ible and in-depth char­ac­ter cus­tom­isa­tion sys­tems ever fea­tured in an MMO, play­ers will be able to cre­ate genu­inely dis­tinct char­ac­ters and explore a visu­ally stun­ning world of eth­er­eal beauty brim­ming with oth­er­worldly inhab­it­ants, mys­ter­i­ous enemies, and ancient secrets.

Hello all Echoplexi­ans, just a small update on guild happenings.

Lately you all would have seen some minor changes regard­ing recruit­ment and class selec­tions. Recruit­ment is still cur­rently closed but EchoCom­plex may open recruit­ment again due to people being inact­ive. If you still wish to to join EchoCom­plex, I advise you to stick around and come have a chat to us on IRC, we are a friendly bunch and don’t bite. We will also be recruit­ing depend­ing if we are short on cer­tain classes.

All cur­rent mem­bers of EchoCom­plex should have received an email regard­ing class role call, check your spam folder as the mes­sage was flagged as spam for some mail ser­vices (GMail in par­tic­u­lar). We are ask­ing every single mem­ber to go to here and post in the cor­rect class thread. If you fail to do this within 2 weeks (06−09−2009) you will be removed from the guild.

EchoCom­plex is look­ing to become a rather ser­i­ous PvP and PvE guild. If you have plans to be a very cas­ual player it is prob­ably best that you con­sider another legion. After launch all play­ers whom fail to log on reg­u­larly will be removed from the legion.

I would like to thank every­one who has pos­ted so far on what class  they are rolling at launch and for keep­ing act­ive within the guild forums.

The fol­low­ing applies to accounts cre­ated before 29.07.2009

Hello every­one,

I have been asked to bring you a notice regard­ing chan­ging your Aion game pass­word some time before release. We have made adjust­ments to our pass­word sys­tem and any­one who has an out­dated pass­word once release/headstart arrives, will be unable to log in to the game.

This mes­sage applies only to those of you who cre­ated your Aion account before 29.7.09. If you changed your pass­word or cre­ated your Aion game account after this date, you are fine and will not need to make any adjustments.

Our pass­word sys­tem update will not affect beta access, but the pass­word you are cur­rently using in beta for any Aion accounts cre­ated on or before this date will no longer work once the game goes live for the Head Start event/official launch.

The fix is simple! Please go through the pro­cess of chan­ging your Aion game account pass­word at your earli­est con­veni­ence. You can even change it to the same pass­word you are cur­rently using.

North Amer­ica: http://us.ncsoft.com/en
Europe: http://eu.ncsoft.com/en-gb/

- aion_ayase

Closed beta test 4 has come and gone. We have had a lot of fun so far and we are look­ing for­ward to closed beta test 5! Head over here for some PvP beta screenshots!

As some of you may know, we cur­rently have an EchoCom­plex (Known as Echoplex in game) legion estab­lished in the beta. We can­not accept any alt char­ac­ters, as the guild is cur­rently full. If you wish to have a dif­fer­ent char­ac­ter invited, please remove your pre­vi­ous char­ac­ter from the guild to make things easier for the officers.

Speak­ing of officers, over the next month or so before retail launch we will be select­ing officers. If you’re inter­ested in becom­ing an officer please keep in mind that you will be judged on your matur­ity, friend­li­ness, activ­ity on the for­ums, com­mit­ment to the legion and expert­ise in the game. Once we have selec­ted these people, we will let them know privately.

The legion has recently closed recruit­ment until retail launch. Some mem­bers have dis­agreed with this, but our reas­on­ing is that cur­rently we only have applic­a­tions to go by in regards to poten­tial mem­bers skills. By clos­ing recruit­ment until retail launch we will be able to see how well people play in game rather than hav­ing to use our imaginations.

Finally, we are accept­ing dona­tions for our Vent­rilo server. So far the response has been excel­lent, with a num­ber of mem­bers donat­ing their hard earned cash! You can view the run­ning total here.

I now leave you with some words of wisdom.

Dis­cuss on the forums.

In order to make it as easy as pos­sible for mem­bers, we have lis­ted out the beta start times for our Oceanic members.

The times are as fol­lows: 3am WAtime, 4:30am ACST, 5am AEST, 7am NZST

Some key points you should keep in mind when mak­ing a character:

We will be play­ing on Server Seil as the Elyos.

Visit the Beta FAQ MEGATHREAD if you have any ques­tions, or head over to the Beta Week­end Rollcall to see which other EchoCom­plex mem­bers are playing.

Dis­cuss on the for­ums.

I stumbled across what looks to be the Aion beta event sched­ule. The dates and details are scanned from a pc gam­ing magazine. The first event is the same, so it’s likely the sched­ule is mostly correct.

• June 19 – 21: Asmodian closed beta capped at level 10
• July 3 – 5: Asmodian level cap increases
• July 17 – 19: Abyss only with unres­tric­ted flight and hope­fully a lot of PvP
• August 14 – 17: First open beta
• August 19 – 23: Second open beta

Source

So far, the only way for Aus­sies to get into these events is to buy a pre-order key online from here. No out­let in Aus­tralia offers pre-order keys as of yet. It is pos­sible that a lim­ited amount of free keys could be released for each sched­uled event, but I wouldn’t count on it.

Dis­cuss on the forums.

Did you know we have an IRC chan­nel? Our chan­nel is on the Gamesurge net­work, come on in, chat and help build the chan­nel up before the game is released! Our chan­nel is #Echocom­plex, addi­tion­ally an #AionAus chan­nel is act­ive also on Gamesurge.

If you are new to IRC, be sure to fol­low the guide in the for­ums. This includes set­ting up a gamesurge account, and join­ing the channels.

• Join­ing EC IRC

Recently the Aion NDA (Non-Disclosure Agree­ment) has been dropped by pub­lisher NCSoft West, allow­ing users to post media and inform­a­tion. This has seen the release of Aionsource’s Aion Armory pro­ject. It’s essen­tially a Wow­head for Aion, allow­ing users to view and search quests, skills, maps, media and share know­ledge with other users.

You can link items in the forum using the the URL BBCode: [url=Aion­Ar­mory­ItemURL]Item­Name[/url] E.G Abom­in­able Cruelty

• Aion­Source newspost
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