Monday, April 7, 2008

General beginners information about ingame play

  1. First go and earn some money (credits) which can be earned by destroying enemies in your starting zone.
  2. Buy as much ammunition for your lasers and missiles as possible early on in the game if you can, because if you do this early you wont need to for a long time. (which actually can be a relatively short amount of time if you use your lasers alot.) and you also save a little bit of credits because you won't have to by any ammunition.
  3. Know that when your honor goes into the negative it decreases the amount of credits you get from selling raw materials to your space station.
  4. Know where your teams space station is. (you start there and it is not easy to forget where it is.) It will look like a miniature space station on your mini map. that is either blue, red, or green depending on your company (team)
  5. Know that there is no best team, if anyone says so then its not recommended you think that you should stay away from that team just because everyone says they are the best team. (however there are teams that are more played than others: making that team dominant over the other two.)
  6. There are three teams that you can join, the "Mars mining operations" (MMO), Earth (EIC), and "Venus Resources Unlimited" (VRU).
  7. See a resource called Uridium which can be earned by quests and getting small amounts out of bonus boxes. This resource becomes useful when and if you die because you need this to repair your damaged ship. If you cannot comply with the cost then you will need to buy a different ship or take the starter ship (phoenix) which is free. In order to get a higher quantity of Uri (Uridium) you will need to buy it on the Bigpoint website
  8. The different sectors are populated with different enemies. Some enemies are harder than others, depending on the sector. For example an easy enemy would be one called a "struner" which is an basic AI unit that is found in the starting sector of each team. A harder enemy would be called "Devolarians" which are giant green enemies that are not easy to defeat and require a group to destroy unless you have a higher weapon class and you deal a lot of damage, but unless you have a group or a good weapon its recommended that you avoid these guys.

2 comments:

Vladimir said...

My experience with Dark Orbit is quite bad. If you're calm, asking for nothing, complaining for nothing, just paying for Uridium, everything might be fine (except GUI instability and a chat trash talk). But if you are at the top with ship equipment (no much further fees expected?) or mention any technical problems with your ship control in chat (cost me 500 uri and 2days ban), troubles will begin (jeer, ban, blocking, ignoring...). My advice is, be very careful, if you consider to start with Dark Orbit!

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