Archive for May, 2009

Dark Orbit Strategy Guide

The DarkOrbit Guide is the place to find game guides, questions & answers, hints, tips and other usefull information. Feel free to post comments to any of the articles if you have questions. Dark Orbit is a massive multiplayer browser game from BigPoint.com. It’s really cool, and the game has millions of players worldwide. You [...]

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Galaxy Gates guide

There are three galaxy gates in Dark Orbit, which are called Alpha, Beta and Gamma. You have to build these gates yourself using the metalizer at the galazy gates page. It costs 100 uridium each time you try to get a pice to one of the galaxy gates, so it can get quite expensive. Now [...]

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Banking

Here is where you can buy more uridium if you need it. You can also buy yourself a peremium account here. Having a premium account will give you several advantages. Like most browser games Dark Orbit has to make money somehow, and Dark Orbit does this by having the players spend money on this. I’ve [...]

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Uridium

Uridium is kind of like the money of the game, and you’d like to get as much uridium as possible. You need the Uridium for repairing your ship if it’s completely destroyed, like I mentioned in the repair bot article. You also need uridium if you want to buy the elite equipment in the game, [...]

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Repair and the ship repair bot

It’s pretty important to know how to repair your ship when it gets damaged. You repair it by using a repair bot and can do so as long as it’s not completely destroyed. Look under extras in the hangar for the repair bot.
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Drones Flax and Iris

Flax and Iris are the two drones you can buy in Dark Orbit. Your drones will circle your ship and defend you depending on which way you have equipped them. The Flax and the Iris drone are quite different. The Flax is the credit drone and only has one slot, while the Iris drone is [...]

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How do I get honor in Dark Orbit?

You get honor in Dark Orbit by killing alien NPC ships as well as killing ships of other players. Make sure however when killing other players that you are not killing players from your own company. Doing so will make you loose honor instead. You will also loose honor if you steal cargo boxes.
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Levels and leveling up

One of the goals of this game like so many others is to level up your character. When you level up you will get access to more features in the game. It decides which maps you can access for example and at higher levels you will also get access to more quests.
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Keyboard commands and controls

Lets start with the keyboard commans you need to use when flying around in the game.
Ammunition change: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Rockets change: E, R and T
Mines : Y and M
Portal jumps : J
Hide status bar and mini map: H
Show mini map: B
Hide resources boxes and mines : F
Change ship configuration: C
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Endurium, Promethium, Terbium and Xenomit

These are the four raw resources you will find in Dark Orbit. The first of these three float around in space and they can be collected by your ship. Endurium is the blue one, Promenthium is red and Terbium is yellow. You can also collect these by shooting down ships. Xenomit is silver colored and [...]

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