About Nullphase

Who publishes this site

Nullphase is published by Original TRANS s.r.o.

The course is written by the Original TRANS s.r.o. editorial team. There are no named authors or instructors on this site, no staff pages and no biographies, because nothing here depends on who wrote it — every factual claim either points to its source or is written as general guidance you can check yourself.

Nullphase is not a game publisher, a reseller, an official site, an authorised partner or a retailer. It does not sell anything, host any downloads, or operate any game service.

Editorial method: how the course was built

The course was structured backwards, from the decisions a reader actually has to make rather than from the topics a category contains. We listed the five points at which somebody new to this can get stuck — the money question, the hardware question, the account question, the first-session question, and the months afterwards — and wrote one step for each.

Each step ends in a checklist because a step that cannot be turned into a list of actions is usually a step that was written for the writer rather than the reader. If a paragraph produced nothing that could go on a checklist, it was cut.

The sequence is fixed and each step assumes the one before it. That is why the step pages carry a plain "Step 3 of 5" line and previous and next links, and why the all-checklists page keeps the lists in order.

What each step relies on

Three kinds of source, used in this order of preference.

Australian public bodies, for anything about consumer rights, privacy, online safety and classification. Specifically the ACCC and Scamwatch, the OAIC, the eSafety Commissioner, the Australian Cyber Security Centre, and the Australian Classification Board. Where one of these is the authority on a point, we link to it and describe what it is rather than paraphrasing its guidance at length.

The vendor's own published description, for anything about a specific product. Everything this site says about the one game it names comes from the publisher's own description of it and from the terms of the promotion we take part in. Where the publisher does not state something, we say so or leave it out.

General description of the category, for everything else — how installers behave, what a launcher does, why confirmation emails exist. These are written as general guidance about desktop games as a class, not as a walkthrough of any one product's screens, and you should expect your own game's menus to be arranged differently.

What you will not find here: ratings, scores, benchmarks, test results, awards, reader reviews, learner quotes or statistics. We have not tested any game and we do not review them. Where the course describes the worked-example household, that household is invented and is used only to show the order in which the checks happen.

How often it is reviewed

The whole course is reviewed at least twice a year, and whenever we become aware that something in it has changed — a linked public body reorganising its site, a change in the terms of the promotion we take part in, or a reader writing to tell us something is wrong.

The date of the last review appears in the footer of every page. When a review changes something material, we change the date; when a review finds nothing to change, we change the date anyway, so that the date means "checked on" rather than "edited on".

If you find an error, write to us. Corrections are made to the page itself.

The commercial relationship, stated plainly

Yes — the one product named in this course is one we have a commercial relationship with. Links to Crossout on this site are paid affiliate links, and if you create and confirm an account after following one, the affiliate network that operates the link pays Original TRANS s.r.o. a commission. That is how this site is paid for. There is no advertising, no sponsorship and no reader payment.

What that relationship does decide: which product is named at all. We are not pretending that a game we are paid to link to was selected by some neutral process. It is named because there is a commercial arrangement behind it, and we would rather write that sentence than let you work it out.

What it does not decide: anything else. The commission does not change what the steps say, what the checklists ask you to do, or what we say about the category. None of the five steps requires you to follow the link, and the course is written so that it is still worth reading if you never do. The commission is the same whatever you go on to do inside the game, and nothing on this site is paid per click.

The full explanation is on the affiliate disclosure page.

What this site does not do

• It collects nothing about you. No account, no sign-up, no newsletter, no form of any kind. The only way to reach us is email, as the contact page explains.
• It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser, which is why the checklists cannot remember a tick. See the cookie policy.
• It loads nothing from anywhere else — no fonts, no analytics, no scripts, no images from other servers. Every page here is served from this domain alone.
• It shows the same pages to every visitor, whatever brought you here.
• It is not accredited training, there is no enrolment, no certificate and nothing to complete.

How your information is handled on the rare occasion you send us some is set out in the privacy policy, and the conditions of use are in the terms and conditions.