Just a note re getting into beta - if you have played TR before you get aion for free (digital download) and a month free when it goes retail plus access to all the betas. Think we also get in-game tshirt when it goes live...I have to dig up the exact wording on the email but my hazy memory suggests the above to be pretty close unless things have changed

Just a word re mboxing though, I read that each players UI will have a big honkin' "REPORT AUTO BOT FARMER" button or similar - so I am guessing anytype of boxing will be short-lived with lots of emails back and forth trying to get accounts reset, etc., etc. Could be a real pain as I can forecast what will happen - 6? boxers ganks lonely little noob. Noob spams 'REPORT BOTZ!!' button, mboxing takes a 'holiday' for a week before they can get back on - only guessing, but sounds a pain

I have heard a great idea re the game which I haven't confirmed though - there is only 1 exp bar, so like in eq2 we have 3 (adventure, trade and aa). What this may mean in aion is that we can play whack a mole for exp, gather some items, then trade skills a new set of ac all of which are adding to our adventure exp!! I assume there will be no disco or aa (EQ2) though but no matter.

Re trades, also understand they are a lot like WoW - one click and it's done. you can also go into batch mode.

I have also heard that some of the best attacks are part of style chains (like DAoC) - so a boxer would have to think which key to hit for max DPS - plus, there is no autoqueue (EQ2).