Droids are small ships that will always be nearby. You can install protection generators, modules and lasers in them. The placement of the droids can also vary depending on your tactics.
There are three types of droids.
The 1st type of droid (Flax) is purchased for credits and has one compartment; when destroyed, the player receives 3/2% damage,
The 2nd type of Iris is purchased for uridium and has two compartments.
With the purchase of each subsequent droid, the price increases. When repaired, droids lose one level.
3rd type - pirate Apis-Zeus - the latest development.
Droids are collected at a high-tech factory, using parts of the drawing that reduce the cost of construction. Also, these droids can be purchased immediately.

Droid prices:

Droids for credits:

1. 100,000 Credits
2. 200,000 Credits
3. 400,000 Credits
4. 800,000 Credits
5. 1.600.000 Credits
6. 3.200.000 Credits
7. 6.400.000 Credits
8. 12.800.000 Credits

Droids behind uri:

1. 15.000 Uridium
2. 24.000 Uridium
3. 42.000 Uridium
4. 60.000 Uridium
5. 84.000 Uridium
6. 96.000 Uridium
7. 126.000 Uridium
8. 200.000 Uridium

Havoc design

What kind of design is this?
This is a special design for droids. You can equip it on any droid, any level.

How to get it?
It can only be obtained by going through the GGZeta port (approximately 50% chance of receiving the design).

This design increases the power of lasers installed on droids by 10%.
The bonus appears only with a complete set of designs! Those. "Havoc" designs must be installed on all droids.

Above the image of each droid its type is indicated. It could be Flax, Iris, Apis, Zeus

Level.
With each new level, the droid's efficiency increases.
It should be remembered that add-ons installed on droids will not have a bonus.

Effect: n\k. n - percentage increase in damage of lasers installed on the droid. k - percentage increase in shield volume.
Level 1 (0 points): effect 0\0
Level 2 (100 points): effect 2\4
Level 3 (200 points): effect 4\8
Level 4 (400 points): effect 6\12
Level 5 (800 points): effect 8\16
Level 6 (1600 points): effect 10\20
Level 6 (1600 points) + Havoc: effect 20\20

Damage
If the damage is 100%, the droid is destroyed and cannot be restored. In this case, you need to purchase a new one.
To prevent this, the droids must be repaired. Repairing one droid costs 500 lvl., 250 lvl. - for premium players. If there is a Coupon for free repair, the droid will be repaired using this coupon. You can also use droid auto repair processors: DR01 and DR02.

Damage to Fluxes - 3%, Toffees - 2%
Regular droids are damaged by 5% for 2 player deaths. There is a sequence: 1 death 3%, 2 death 2%, etc.
Table of percentage damage of droids corresponding to the number of player drains after which the droid will burst:

Design "Hercules"

What kind of design is this?
This is a special design for droids. You can equip it on any droid, at any level.

How to get it?
It can only be obtained by going through the GG port >Kappa<

What are the bonuses of this design?
This design increases the energy of shields mounted on the droid by 15%.
Equipping all droids with this design will increase the strength of your ship by 20%.

How to put this design on a droid?
In the weapon, in the inventory, find it and then drag it to a special slot on the droid.

What does this design look like in inventory?

What will the droids look like on the map then?
Flax.

A droid is a small assistant ship that flies next to your main ship. This is a faithful and reliable companion of your spaceship. They have compartments where you can install weapons: modules and lasers or protection generators.

There are two types of droids in the game: - droid for credit - Flax. It is sold for credits. Has one seat for placing a protective field generator or weapon. It is recommended to purchase for those who play for free. With each subsequent drone purchase, its price increases exponentially.

Droids for credits (flax):
1. 100,000 Credits
2. 200,000 Credits
3. 400,000 Credits
4. 800,000 Credits
5. 1.600.000 Credits
6. 3.200.000 Credits
7. 6.400.000 Credits
8. 12.800.000 Credits

Despite this, in a few weeks you can acquire a full fleet of droids and upgrade them to the maximum level. The maximum number of droids a ship can have is eight. The maximum level for droids is six. Powered up droids will add strength to your ship.

With each level, the droid gives content to its compartments. If droids carry field generators, this will increase your ship's defense (additional shield strength). If droids carry laser launchers, this will add firepower to your ship (additional weapon power). The droid can be upgraded with add-ons. Droids can be equipped with additional equipment, for example, a Repair Bot or some kind of processor. The droid doesn't like it when you are killed, it spoils him. Every time you are killed, it loses its resource. When a player dies, they take 3/2% damage. The droid can be repaired, but this reduces their strength. We have to pump up the droids again with the corpses of alien ships.

Uridium droid - Iris. These droids are sold for uridium. They are an upgraded droid with two compartments. Iris has the same functions as Flux, but its resource is twice as high. The price of Iris upon subsequent purchase also increases in geometric sequence.

Droids behind Uri (iris):
1. 15.000 Uridium
2. 24.000 Uridium
3. 42.000 Uridium
4. 60.000 Uridium
5. 84.000 Uridium
6. 96.000 Uridium
7. 126.000 Uridium
8. 200.000 Uridium

Since Iris is only sold for uridium, only advanced players can buy it. At the initial stage, only a paid player can afford such a toy. He also doesn't like being killed, but when a player dies, they only receive 2/1% damage.

The droid is upgraded by killing NPCs. The more expensive your ship is, the more you need to kill the UFO. Once you do this, you receive the next level of development of your droid. In order to pump up your Drones as quickly and most effectively as possible, if you fly on a ship for credits, you should take credits in an amount equal to the amount of your ship, after which you can safely board the Phoenix and destroy the Streuners. For example, for Phoenix, in order to upgrade a droid to level 6, you need to destroy 400 Streuners, for Defcom - 1600, and for Liberator, Piranha and other powerful ships, killing Streuners will not give any result, so you need to destroy barrels or something else, but only cooler.

The best way to level up droids is on the Yamato ship. To pump the drones on it to the maximum level, you just need to kill the Streuners and the Lords. This is the easiest target that always flies nearby. For example, it is enough to fill 534 Stromner or 320 Lordakia, and we can consider the job done. Only after pumping the droids to the maximum limit is it worth changing the ship to a more serious one.

It is advisable that by the time of transplantation you have 8 droids in your arsenal, so that after killing 400 Streuners, you do not have to repeat this procedure all over again. Place cannons in Nerds, and the Streuners will be destroyed in the blink of an eye. Having pumped up your droids, if you have the amount of money you need, but don’t have enough Drones, it would be better to buy a full set of Nerds, consisting of 8 pieces and pump them up, then you can transfer to your own Big Boy, only now he will be surrounded by an impressive fear and horror retinue of all 8 droids.

Designing dark orbits is a rather labor-intensive and costly process. This option can be purchased with in-game money, but its cost will fluctuate around the level of the full LF3 laser kit for Vengeance. There is a wide variety of designs. Let's look at each one separately.

Goliath includes designs that add 5-10% to honor, experience, damage, shields. The remaining 5 types of design provide access to valuable abilities. The Saturn Dark Orbit design appears to be an exclusive development for the ship, with a bonus value equal to 20% to the strength of the Goliath ship.

Solace is responsible for the instant rehabilitation of half of the strength, adding 10% to the shield. Diminisher quickly removes the enemy's shield half and adds 5% to damage. Spectrum increases damage protection to 80% for half a minute and adds 10% to shield. At the same time, your own damage is reduced. Sentinel provides thirty percent protection from damage for 2 minutes, adds 10% to the shield. Venom increases damage to the enemy by 1,000 every second and adds 5% to damage.

In dark orbits, the most preferred ship designs are those that guarantee a bonus to experience and are valuable up to earning lvl 17. Then access to all locations opens, the level loses significance. Improved designs are harder to choose from. It is preferable to focus on Venom first; later it will be easier to earn money for the rest. You can buy the design you like.

Solace, Spectrum are not suitable for single battles. During group raids, Solace provides durability to nearby ships. Recent developments have led to the creation of the repair vessel Aegis. The ship surpasses the designs in value.

Spectrum is useless without the support of a repair ship or Solace. Absolute invulnerability is used exclusively when escaping from an enemy. For solo reconnaissance of enemy locations, the Diminisher is the best option. On this ship, the destruction of the enemy occurs as quickly as possible. The ability to reduce the enemy’s shield by 2 times destroys his strategy, eliminates the enemy’s attempt to escape, and deprives him of protection.

Venom is considered the best ship for accumulating Uridium and credits. The ship is capable of destroying the Uber Crystallon on its own. To do this, invisibility is acquired; under this protection, “Paralysis” is thrown at Uber. After a thirty-second interval, green cartridges fire shots at Crystallon, each doing 50 thousand damage.

In dark orbits, droid designs suggest equipping small ships with protection generators, modules, and lasers. There are 3 types of droids: Flax, Iris, Apis&Zeus. The first type is purchased for credits, equipped with 1 compartment, the second with 2 compartments - for Uridium, the third - for real money.

The only worthy design has been developed for Vengeance. Without sufficient credit, Uridium, a powerful ship is available to design as at Gala to increase experience. After purchasing the optimal weapon upgrade, set the design to passive damage to instantly destroy mobs and accumulate wealth. Buying a dozen shields sets the design to passive protection. After fully equipping the hangar with shields for the broom, a design for Lighting damage is obtained.

It is interesting to play if you have any of the above-described ship designs. The better the design, the less vulnerable the user is to adversaries. Protected ships become inaccessible to the enemy.

It is increasing every day, so more and more often players are interested in how to properly build development tactics in order to “pump up” their character and buy a powerful spaceship in the shortest possible time!

The correct development tactics begin with registration in the game. If you have not yet registered your account with Dark Orbit, then do so to receive additional bonuses that will undoubtedly be useful to you in the future. Go to the official Bigpoint website and register a general account, then go to the Dark Orbit game. The registration process is simplified to a minimum. Thanks to this procedure, you will receive additional free currency (uridium), which will be necessary for upgrading your character and ships in the future.

The choice of faction does not make any difference in terms of “special features” and advantages. They differ from each other only in their history and appearance, so you can safely choose any of them.

The first piggy bank for a pilot...

Once you get Uridium, don't waste it. This is the most valuable currency in the game and is difficult to obtain. You can quickly get it only through the donation system. Your first ship will be the Phoenix, which, unfortunately, cannot boast of high parameters and characteristics. After just 10 minutes of playing, you can earn experience and credits for another, more powerful and faster ship. To do this, you just need to move to the Nyx station and complete several small quests.

Completed the missions? Change the ship and go again! Additional missions and quests will begin to open up for you. We strongly recommend that you start only those where you will need to kill enemy ships and monsters. You will receive double experience: for completing missions, as well as receiving additional “goodies” and bonuses. For each unit you are awarded a certain amount of currency, respectively, the more frags you kill, the more profit you will receive.

Don't take on PVP quests. As a rule, the main mistake of novice players is that they get involved in these quests! You will lose a lot of time and will not be able to level up your ship and crew as quickly as possible. After 3 weeks, you can safely proceed to completing these quests, when you already have a pumped-up ship, combat skills, and installed defense elements.

Choosing the right balance between combat tactics and defense

Immediately pay close attention to pumping up the ship. The ratio of defense and attack tactics should be approximately 50 to 50. If, for example, you improve only lasers, increasing their number as much as possible, you will not be able to fight back while they are recharging.

If you still have a weak ship that cannot quickly develop speed, be near the teleport. Were you killed? No problem! Take a new ship or transfer to a free one again. As a rule, it is better to use several configurations for the ship at once. For example, if your defense was knocked down, you can switch the configuration and restore other full shields, thereby extending the life of the ship and getting to the teleport.

Constantly monitor the map on your monitor screen. Enemy ships near you are shown on the map with a red marker. There are also a large number of places on it that are considered safe zones. Not only players, but also aliens can attack. Always upgrade your equipment first, and only then buy a ship for it. Even if your ship is destroyed, all weapons along with upgrades are saved, and you can easily transfer them to another ship, for example, a more powerful one.

Using hotkeys in Dark Orbit

To become a dexterous and nimble pilot, we advise you to use hotkeys from the very beginning of the game. For example, to teleport, just press the J key, and in an instant you will leave all enemies behind, even with a ship smashed into rubbish. It is also convenient to use hot keys to switch lasers, missiles, mines, and change configurations, which we mentioned at the beginning of the article. For a complete list of hotkeys, see your profile settings.

How to choose the right ship for a beginner

Initially, you will be able to purchase only a few ships: BigBoy and Piranha. Even here, you need to carefully choose your ship in order to quickly develop in the game. Although Piranha is fast, his defense is poor. Be prepared for the fact that about 50% of battles will be lost due to weak defense. But BigBoy is perfect for starting. His armor is several times better, and the number of laser cannons is several times larger.

The ship has been chosen. What's next? You also continue to complete quests, kill mobs, and as soon as you accumulate enough modules to upgrade, pump them to the maximum. Increase the power, speed, and protection of the spaceship. Next, you can easily “endure” mobs of initial levels and most players who have been playing Dark Orbit for a short time.

As a rule, it is better to choose Vengeance as your next ship. This unit has high strength, excellent speed and is equipped with a large number of powerful guns.

You can purchase additional droids for the ship. These are small satellites that will accompany your ship everywhere, helping in attack and defense. They can carry additional shields and weapons, separate modules. Droids are upgraded along with the ship, so we advise you to purchase them as quickly as possible. Just keep in mind that each droid increases in price after purchasing the previous one.

Newbie, don't forget about the auction!

In the browser game Dark Orbit you can get good modules and add-ons, ships, by purchasing them at auction. The system is entirely based on the sale of goods between players, where each user can set their own initial and final price. Constantly analyze the market, ask friends and clanmates at what prices it is better to purchase this or that module.

Believe me, in a week or two you will already feel confident at the auction and know which lots to purchase.

In general, we can say that the Dark Orbit game involves a large number of development strategies, where each player builds his own tactics. This guide describes only general rules for development for beginning players, but there are also separate instructions for upgrading specific ships, earning uridium in competitions, bonuses, and other events, learning combat tactics and many other important aspects of the game. Develop your own battle tactics, analyze the behavior of your enemies, select the optimal defense and attack configurations for the ship, and, undoubtedly, you will be a favorite in the game!

Laws for using DarkOrbit secrets

The DO game was conceived and implemented for the purpose of making money. Those who like the game can deposit real money into their game account. But you can play for free. You can even join a clan and win the Euro Jackpot. So, for example, in March 2009, our Russian clan won the Jackpot.

We will share the main secrets of DarkOrbit

DarkOrbit has rules, its own laws and foundations. There are also secrets. Let's face it, there are a lot of mysteries and secrets in DarkOrbit. And you have to solve the main mystery. And we'll just share our secrets

In any of the two cases, by registering and entering the game you will receive free initial capital, uridium and credits to your account, which are used as game space currency. How to earn or receive loans and uridium for free or for money, read in the relevant sections. The main thing is to use advice correctly and wisely and not to abuse free resources.
And remember the main points that will help you in the game DarkOrbit.

• Dark Orbit won't let you go
• Free cheese only comes in a mousetrap
• Free cheese has the highest price - life
• A game server needs a lot of players, which means they need everyone
• Free cheese and even sausage are used to attract and return players
• Every sausage ends sooner or later. But then the sausages appear
• For using cheats, bots, resource generators (credits and uridium) you will be deprived of your account.

Shared Secrets of DarkOrbit

You need to register here

Do not rush to pay for the game, regardless of whether you have the opportunity to do so or not. The first quests and tasks can be completed quite easily without premium and a bunch of uridium. And it won't hurt to gain experience. What's the point of having a fancy cruiser if you don't know how to fly a small single-seat fighter.

It's easier and faster to pump up droids on a small ship. Droids can significantly increase a ship's combat effectiveness. You can buy small ones first, using earned credits and accumulated credits from bonus boxes. You can earn uridium by persistent and painstaking destruction of alien ships, or get uridium by replenishing your game account and buy IRIS droids and promote them right away.

Show the administration that you are a promising player and deposit the minimum amount into your gaming account. After all, the game is designed to make a profit, and 100-200 rubles is not money for a good and interesting game. This will give you the opportunity to receive uridium, Premium and game credits for free in the future.

If you think that you have gained enough experience and are able to spend real money on the game, then you should not buy everything indiscriminately. The main part of what the server administration offers you to buy is completely useless. It makes sense to buy Uridium and the Loyalty bonus package.

Among the quests there are often very complex and stupid ones that are more expensive to complete. Read carefully and choose tasks based on strength, balancing the capabilities of your ship and its weapons.

Team up with other players. You can join a clan or organize a clan yourself.

The dark side of the orbit is unpredictable. There, an enemy can be a friend, and a friend can become an enemy. It is better to fly to the Dark Side alone. And you shouldn’t fly there without Premium.

Secret materials, how to get free Premium, uridium and credits, see the relevant sections.