Travian: Browser game of war and strategy

TRAVIAN

Introduction:

Travian is the game of power, strategy, power, revenge, rage. It is one of the best strategy massive multiplayer game available on net.  This game is all about capturing the villages or in other terms capturing kingdoms and ruling and showcasing the power.  This game consists of three tribes named Romans, Gauls, and Teutons.

TRIBES:

Roman:  Romans are the best tribe for defense as well as offensive players, but the cost of building and training troops is comparatively very high compared to other tribes.  It is good for the players who are ready to spend money or gold for building the strongest troops and strongest village.

Gauls:  The benefits of Gauls are they are the best tribe for the purpose of raiding and traps is the another unique benefit you get with this tribe.  Their troops are very fast, but training cost of the troops are cheaper than the Romans but costlier than that of Teutons.

Teutons:  Teutons one of my best preferred tribe in travian.  Cost of training troops is very less compared to other tribes as well as construction of building is also cheaper than that of other tribes available in travian.  The disadvantage of having Teutons is their troops are very bad for the purpose of defense.

For beginners the best option is to select teutons tribe and start building your village as per task manager as task managers help you construct your village in an easy way as well as on completion of each task you are rewarded with resources and gold sometimes.  These rewards help you grow your village at more faster pace than you may otherwise.

Arrow drone formation

Arrow Drone Formation:


Advantage:  It increases the damage caused by your rockets, it gives 20% extra damage effect to your rockets, but hellstorms or rockets used by the rocket launcher is not included in this case.

Disadvantage:  Decrease laser damage by 3%

Cost:  1,000,000 credit.


It is another non-uridium drone formation, it would good if you cannot afford any kind of uridium formation and your laser damage is less as u dont have elite this can be used with 3030 rockets with targeting skill on and it will give more damage.

Turtle Drone Formation

Advantage:  Increases Sheild power by +10%

Disadvantage:  Decreases laser and rocket damage by 7% and 5%

Cost:  1000000 Credits.

This formation is only good for NPC hunt, but has the disadvantage of decrease in damage caused by laser and rockets, since it is a credit drone formation it has actually not much use in the real game.

Clan Battle Station

What is CBS?

Clan Battle station.

 

Clan battle station is the station which setup by the clan by installing required 10 modules. To build a clan battle station, a require 10 modules to be installed in the asteroid available on the map. The two compulsorily required modules are deflector and hull modules, without which the battle station cannot be established. Experience and honor module if installed, will give certain amount of experience and honor on killing any alien or players globally. The booster modules give certain percentage of booster effect to the members of clan to the specific map where the battle station is installed. Benefits of clan battle station is it will attack any enemy players of other company as well as members of war clan who comes near to the CBS uncloacked. CBS can be destroyed by the enemies and it can be rebuild by repairing and reinstalling all the modules.

Effective Item Upgradation Tips

Tips on upgrading items in Dark Orbit:

On max upgradation of any item you will receive 6% more damage and 15% more sheild.
Usually an FE goli will have 31 bo2s, 31 LF3s and 8 to 10 iris. Upgradation of single item to lvl 16 will cost approximately 100k uridium, thus upgrading 31 bo2s will take around 3100k uridium to reach lvl 16 and it is the same case with LF3s too. Here you won't find any shortcuts to upgrade your items to lvl 16, but you may find the way to effectively and economically upgrading your items. Once you decide to upgrade your items, then first you should consider upgrading the hellstorm to lvl16 rather than any other items at first as you can only have one of this item loaded in your ship. Thus for 100k uri you get max 6% damage bonus to your hellstorm.

Next best item for upgradation will be drones. As an FE you will only have 8 to 10 drones, thus upgrading drones is the wisest thing to do. Benefits as follows:

1. Iris have 2 slots, thus you will be placing two items in a drone and thus single drone upgrade bonus will give advantage to both those items together.

2. Iris has its own bonus for damage as well as sheild and thus it also adds up.

3. If you have a drone design or in future if you are able to obtain one, then again the bonus adds up.

4. One more benefit is that according to the situation your lvl 16 drone will give benefit to bo2 or LF3 or LF4s which ever you place in those slots and gives more kind of choices to your benefit.

5. Thus total cost of upgrading all 8 iris would be 800k uridium and 10 drones will be 1 million uridium. Now if you want to spend your hard earned uridium in more smart way then you should get rebate plan from the uridium page which will give you 25% discount on all uridium items you buy, plus you would be knowing that every week as mega happy hour is released the same way 25% discount on upgradation event happens, thus this will give you 50% discount on your upgradation thus just spending 500k uridium you would be able to upgrade all your iris or for 400k uridium for you 8 iris.

I hope this information will be of great help to you in deciding the way you can upgrade the items more effectively.

Vengence for noobs in uppers

Vengance:

Vengy is the best ship for semi-Fe or free players. If you are a noob but got bored hunting aliens in lowers, and wants to get to uppers, then vengy is the best ship. Unless you are full FE, ie 31 LF3, 31 BO2, 21 pp, 8 Iris, and 20 uridium speed generators, you need to be in lowers and if you want to hunt in uppers better get vengy and at least should have 10 speed generators to get full speed advantage of a vengy. Vengy's power lies in its speed, which is unbeatable. I don't say that you will superior to a FE goli, but mean to say that vengy's speed can help you escape from the chasing golis. Unless you are full FE, even having goli is of no use, because you are going to be popped now and then by other FE and Uber FE golis. Since vengy has got less sheild power and HP, here are few tricks that you can use if you involve in a fight with a goli:

1. Vengy's speed is the best advantage for the vengy player. If you just want to escape of an FE goli, then use your speed as a tool against those FE goli to escape. You can use slowing rockets on the goli while you running, this will give vengy a good escape time as goli has got low speed and if you hit that goli with a slowing rocket it will make the goli much slower and will give you enough time to jump the portal and escape. Now most of you will have one question in mind, this rockets costs 500 uri and your ship repair too costs 500 uri so whats the profit. Its true using 500 uri rocket to escape or to get poped is upto your style of play. Now there is now new option, that slowing mine of 20 uri, which would be much cheaper, but to make the enemy run through this mine would be a great pain, but still if you are lucky you can still slow down the chasing goli. If you desire to use the slowing mine, then make sure you are loaded with turbo mine cpu so that the cool down time of the mine is reduced and while running just check out the enemy following you is chasing you in a straight line thus chances of mine hitting him will be more.

2. Vengy's HP and sheild are lower than a goli. So here are some more tricks, use turtle formation of drone which you can buy for 1 million credits which will give your vengi a 10% more shield power as well as avenger design of vengi will again add another 10% of sheild to your vengi. Now here comes another trick, try to use smart bombs as the first mode of attack if ever you decide to fight a goli, this will give the goli 20% damage, which will make the goli somewhat equal to the hp of a vengi and may give your vengy a chance of winning the fight.

3. If you are in PVP or battle maps like 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4 then you should always have emp and cloacking cpu. If a goli is chasing you and hitting you then on the run just get your ship cloacked and then press the emp and run, so the goli wont be able to target you again or you can go to radiation zone so the goli cannot chase you as you will be invisible on the mini map too, but keep in mind if you are low in hp then going to radiation zone may destroy you.

Effective Upgrading of Items

Upgrading a single item to lvl 16, you may need to spend 100k uridium and it gives you 6% of damage and 15% shield power.  Now if you like to spend your hard earned uridium effectively, then suppose you want to upgrade your drone, then upgrade all the 8 drones to lvl2 by spending 31240 uridium and you get 16 x 1% sheild = 16% total shield power and if you upgrade 31 LF3s to lvl2, then you get damage of 0.4 x 31 = 12.4% damage of total by spending 121055. So according to me, the more effective way of upgrading your items is level up all the items to lvl2 first and after lvl2 upgradation is over then next step is to upgrade to lvl3 of all items and so on, thus your damage and sheild power you gain will be more than just spending more than 100K for upgradation of single item to lvl 16.


If you are an avid boxer, then here are the few tips for increasing your boxing capacity, using pet is the best bet for earning more uridium:  First you will need to buy an auto looter for your pet and if you willing to invest uridium then never get lvl1 autolooter, it is just waste of uridium as the range of it is very limited and your pet tends to move around your ship and will try to pick only those boxes which your ship can pick without any assistance of the pet.  So, the best option would be to go for lvl2 or lvl3 autolooter, lvl3 would be the best, but it costs 37500 uridium, but it worth buying it, then you need to buy salvage protocol lvl2 or lvl3, lvl1 gives you 1% more from the boxes, lvl2 gives 2% and lvl3 gives 3%, thus if you get lvl3 salvage protocol and you fill your pet slots with 10 lvl3 protocol you will get 30% more from the boxes i.e. in 4-x maps if you get uridium of 150 then your pet may turn it into 195 uridium thus your earnings are more.  Investing so much uridium in pet is recommended to only those people who are avid boxer and always box in pvp maps, in other maps it would not show much difference and it would be just waste of uridium.  If you are not an avid boxer in pvp maps, then instead of investing so much of uridium in salvage protocol and auto-looter is just waste, instead you need to invest in kamazaki lvl3 and should have premium account to make full use of it in earning uridium, just by cubing, which may give more 150 to 200 uridium per cube kill.


Now the above mentioned technique of upgrading pet for collecting uridium does not worth the amount of uridium you have spent for upgrading your pet, thus cubing is the best way to get more uridium than any other kind of boxing.


Another option for earning uridium is by going to uridium page and clicking earn uridium cash for action, this will lead to advertisers and you would need to do surveys and some downloads inorder to receive uridium.

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Dark Orbit Epsilone Gate

Shield Power Chart Fully Upgraded

INFORMATION CORRECT AS AT 10th DECEMBER, 2011

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Shields have been listed on an individual basis, to allow players to calculate their shieldpower based on their own configurations.

TO CALCULATE SHIELDPOWER:

++ Locate the power value for the shield according to it's type, equipped location, and any bonuses which apply.
++ Total the power values of all shields equipped.

++ Leonov pilots will need to double the value of any shields in the "Ship" location before calculating. (This bonus only applies when you are in your own company's maps X-1, X-2, X-3, X-4).

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NOTES:

* Shieldpower is a fixed value. No rounding was necessary.
* Boosters have been calculated for a solo ship only. Additional shared boosters will give higher shieldpower values.
* Shields/drones marked with "++" indicate that they are fully upgraded (Level 16).

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MAXIMUM SHIELDPOWER TOTALS

Goliath
Shields on ship (15) = 498,090
Shields on drones (20) = 916,500

Total Shieldpower = 1,414,590
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Vengeance
Shields on ship (10) = 332,060
Shields on drones (20) = 916,500

Total Shieldpower = 1,248,560
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Leonov
Shields on ship (6) // x2 bonus (12) = 181,128 // 362,256
Shields on drones (20) = 833,180

Total Shieldpower = 1,014,308

(with bonus)
Total Shieldpower = 1,195,436

Damage Chart (Fully Upgraded)

DAMAGE CHART FOR LF-4 LASER (fully upgraded)


DAMAGE CHART FOR LF-4 LASER


DAMAGE CHART FOR LF-3 LASER (fully upgraded)


DAMAGE CHART FOR LF-3 LASER


INFORMATION CORRECT AS AT 10th DECEMBER, 2011

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Laser damage has been listed on an individual basis, to allow players to calculate their damage based on their own configurations.TO CALCULATE DAMAGE:

++ Locate the damage value for the laser according to it's type, equipped location, and any bonuses which apply.
++ Total the damage values of all lasers equipped.
++ Multiply damage by the ammunition type used.

++ Leonov pilots will need to double the value of any lasers in the "Ship" location before calculating. (This bonus only applies when you are in your own company's maps X-1 to X-4).

++ The "Havoc" design bonus only applies if ALL drones are equipped with the design. If this is not the case, use the standard drone figures.

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NOTES:

* Damage values listed should only be used for calculating damage inflicted.
* Damage received is displayed on a per-second basis, and may include values from other attacks.
* Actual damage caused may be anywhere from 80%-100% of listed figures.
* All figures use standard rounding. The difference from raw data is negligible.
* Boosters have been calculated for a solo ship only. Additional shared boosters will give higher damage values.
* Lasers/drones marked with "++" indicate that they are fully upgraded (Level 16).

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MAXIMUM DAMAGE TOTALS FOR LASERS

Goliath
Lasers on ship (15) = 7,185
Lasers on drones (20) = 12,280

Damage X1 ammo = 19,465
Damage UCB-100 ammo = 77,860
Damage RSB-75 ammo = 116,790
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Vengeance
Lasers on ship (10) = 4,790
Lasers on drones (20) = 12,280

Damage X1 ammo = 17,070
Damage UCB-100 ammo = 68,280
Damage RSB-75 ammo = 102,420
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Leonov
Lasers on ship (6) // x2 bonus = 2,736 // 5,472
Lasers on drones (20) = 11,700

Damage X1 ammo = 14,436
Damage UCB-100 ammo = 57,744
Damage RSB-75 ammo = 86,616

(with bonus)
Damage X1 ammo = 17,172
Damage UCB-100 ammo = 68,688
Damage RSB-75 ammo = 103,032

Full Upgrade Cost Chart of Sheilds and Lasers

UPGRADE COST CHART

Dark Orbit Bot

Q. What is bot?
A. Bot is a software or program that helps the players collect bonus boxes and kill NPCs.

If you are a newbee to Dark Orbit and when you roam around x-1 to x-4 maps, you will find many of the players or ships are hunting NPCs or collecting boxes and they are doing so continuously for many hours and they are full elite (FE) too, so what they are doing and how they are doing it, the answer is they are using the bot program to do it for them.  They just need to login to their account and start this program and rest of the thing is taken care by the Bot program.  Around 80% of the FEs you find in Dark Orbit are using bot and that is why they are FE.  If a player bot for 24 hours continuously then he would be able to earn more than 30000 uridium which is more than enough for a player to use all the powerful ammos available and its more profitable than paying for uridium in MHH and still you dont have enough equipments or laser ammos to be powerful. You can get this bot which collects boxes and kill npcs just for 20$ and if you want the bot to do the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Epson or Zeta gates, you need to pay 35$ and once you get this software then this software will be working for you lifetime, thus you have to pay one time only to get this benefit and become FE or powerful than other players and start enoying the game instead of working hard and working long hours to get a little uridium which will vanish as soon as you buy ammos or equipments within few hours and again you have to continue the same hardwork and you reach nowhere.

Q. Where can you buy this bot?
A.  You can get this bot from http://www.orbitbot.com/ go to payment section and make the payment and start getting automatic inflow of uridium without hardwork and enjoy popping all your enemies and prove yourself the powerful player in Dark Orbit.

Premium Member

Advantages of being premium member:

1.  Free Repair of Ship and Pet, 50% repair cost for drones.  This is the best part of being premium.  So you save a lot of uridium by becoming a premium member.  If you have pet with Kazamake, then you can use the premium to the most advantage of yours as you can use your pet to destroy even the powerful aliens without spending uridium for repair of your pet. You can also use your pet with kazamake in gates which will help you lower the cost of ammos spent on doing gates.

2. Auto Refining:  Auto refining is also good thing to get, as it refines your resources at its best ratio, so you can collect more from the loot from the cube and if your pet equipped with pet gear of cargo trader then earning credits will be childs play.

3.  Fast Rocket cool time.  With premium your rockets will fire like lasers and all the players know rocket 3030 and URB100 does good damage to the enemies and if it rapid fires then the enemy wont stand a chance to stand in front of your ship.

4.  You get 5% discount on all the uridium based ammos and equipments though its not a big discount, but still it saves a lot if you use uridium to buy lot of things in the game.

5.  If you have a goli with 150% cargo compressing cpu, then your cargo storage capacity will increase to 4000 and thus more space to store cargo and then sell in return of credits.  A normal goli with 150% compression cpu have only 3000 cargo space.

6.  Your repair will be fast and logout will only 5 sec to logout.

Thus Premium is one of the best option available.  Cubing with pet with kazamake with premium, you will make more uridium than just paying 10$ and getting 90000 uridium in MHH as premium you get for only 6$.

Tips On Cubing

Cube is the most powerful and most rewarding alien in Dark Orbit.  Previously a cube can only be popped by FE golies or a team of FE golies.  After the introduction of pet and its Kazamake, a single goli with premium account is able to pop the cube alone and can make around 2K-3K uridium easily as they get the kills of protogit because of the use of Kazamake.  Kazamake lvl 2 and lvl 3 are best for cubing.  Now those who has no pet or kazamake, but still want to earn uridium from cube, the trick is move around x-6 map, target a cube which u will shooting alone, then start shoot and keep your sheild to the top lvl as you can. I know that popping a cube alone is not possible without a pet or kazamake, so when you are with very low HP, leave the cube alone and start repairing your ship.  It is for sure someone with pet will come and pop your cube, so the gain for you would be around 300 to 400 Uridium with credits and EP, with very little work for you to do as rest of the work will be done by the FE goli with premium account with a pet and kazamake.  Best of Luck.

Leonov "The Terror"

Leonov is the best ship for the newbees.  Leonov has got 200% damage and 200% sheild effect in x-1 to x-4 maps. So in lowers if the Leonov is used intellectually, it can bring down a FE goli.  Leonov's 3030 Rocket may cause enormous damage as the damage is just the double that too with UBR100 rockets. If you are premium member, then the enemy may get doomed as these rockets starts firing like lasers with premium.  Using smart bomb with those ammos will really do awesome work giving damage of 40% to the FE Goli.  Only the drawback with leonov is it has all its power only in x-1 to x-4.  Thus a leonov with sepped ammos, rockets and UBR100 and smart bomb with kazamaki in pet, WOW the enemy will be killed instantly.

Rewards from Gates

• Alpha Gate -
o 20,000 Uridium
o 20,000 Type 4 (x4 damage) ammunition
o 100,000 Honor
o 4,000,000 Experience
o 2 Repair credits
o 2 Logs Disks

• Beta Gate -
o 40,000 Uridium
o 40,000 Type 4 (x4 damage) ammunition
o 200,000 Honor
o 8,000,000 Experience
o 4 Repair credits
o 4 Log Disks

• Gamma Gate -
o 60,000 Uridium
o 60,000 Type 4 (x4 damage) ammunition
o 300,000 Honor
o 12,000,000 Experience
o 6 Repair credits
o 10 Log Disks

• Delta Gate - 
o 45,000 Uridium
o 45,000 Type 4 (x4 damage) ammunition
o 225,000 Honor
o 9,000,000 Experience
o 5 Repair credits
o 8 Log Disks

Epsilon Gate -
o 25,000 Uridium
o 20,000 Type 4 (x4 damage) ammunition
o 150,000 Honor
o 5,000,000 Experience
o 10 Log Disks
o 5 Booty Keys
o 1 Ring
o CHANCE at LF4 Laser cannon

• Zeta Gate
• 35,000 Uridium
• 25,000 Type 4 (x4 damage) ammunition
• 200,000 Honor
• 6,000,000 Experience
• 50 Log Disks
• 25 Booty Keys
• 1 Ring
• CHANCE at Havoc Drone Design

Pilot Bio

Pilot Bio worth spending uridium on.  Pilot bio helps increase the ships HP, damage and sheild power.

As per my view, I would invest my uridium on defensive pilot points rather than any other until I am full elite. If you put logs in Ship Hull I and II, it will give your ship 50000 HP more above the basic ship hull. Pilot points in sheild mechanics make your ships shield withstand more damage, and this pilot bio is useful with both enemy players as well as aliens.  There are lots of ways to increase damage, but very less options for defense.  You can use elite ammos, damage boosters, etc to inflict more damage on the enemy, but if your defense is not so strong, you wont be able to withstand their damage, thus in order to get yourself some time to stand there and able to use all your strength you need more pilot points in defensive pilot bios rather than offensive.  Most of the defensive pilot bios works with both aliens as well as enemy players, whereas for damage pilot bios, you have to put pilot points separately for the pilot bios that increases damage to the enemy players and pilot bios that increases damage to the aliens.

Trading Tricks For Newbees

Trading section of Dark Orbit is the most valuable part of this game.  In trading section, the items listed are all uridium items, which can be baught by using credits.  This trade occurs every hour, so if you loose your bid, try bidding the next hour and you can keep bidding on different items and win those bids and build your ship one of the powerful ship in the galaxy. Below are the items and the estimated range in which you can obtain those items:

Items                                                                    Range
DRO-O2 (Drone Repair CPU)                          10000-50000 Credits
RD CPU (Radar CPU)                                      10000-50000 Credits
AROL-X(Automatic rocket rapid fire)                10000-50000 Credits
RL-LB1 (Rocket Launcher CPU)                       10000-50000 Credits
GEM-IX(X2 Cargo Space)                                10000-50000 Credits
HST-2 (Rocket Launcher)                                  10000-50000 Credits
Goliath Designs                                                   10000-50000 Credits

DarkOrbit - NewBees

Those who have joined Dark Orbit just recently, they will notice that they will get a Phoenix ship by default.  Now once you got this ship, you should first complete some of the quests provided by DO to upgrade your ship to the next ship.  You will earn some uridium once you complete those quest, then the next step would be to start collecting bonus boxes (golden colored boxes in the map) which gives you uridium and credits.  Now start collecting those credits so that you can buy the speed generators which you can find under Hanger->Shop->Generators and buy some G3N-3310 generators, which will help you increase the speed of your ship so that you can collect more bonus boxes in little time, but you should keep in mind, you should not spend uridium at this moment, instead collect uridium upto 9000 so that you can get one of the best ship called Leonov for newbies.  This ship has great advantages to the newbees, it has got 160000 HP in X-1 to X-4 maps, and its damage and sheild power is also double in these maps which will help you kill alliens and earn more credits and experience.  Getting leonov can be acheived in 2-3 days if you simply concentrate on collecting boxes and saving the uridium.  Once you get the leonov, your struggle as a newbee ends.

The next part that you have to concentrate as a newbee now is skylab. You need to upgrade Prometium, Endurium, Terbium, Solar Module and Basic Module at first and keep upgrading until it reaches lvl3, then upgrade Prometid, Duranium, and xeno module until it reaches lvl2, then start with promerium. If you follow these steps you wont find any kind of difficulty arising in production of resources or else there would be disruptions which you will understand later as you become experienced with this game.  Now once you have enough stores of these resources in your skylab store, then you can transport these resources to your ship using transport module, the max amount you can send depends on your cargo space available in your ship.  Sending promerium and selling those resources at base gives you the highest credits in comparison to others. Thus for credits you should concentrate more on skylab, upgrade those refineries constantly, and keep sending and selling those resources, which in turn give you more and more credits which can be used to bid items in Trade section and can attain most of basic equipments for the ship at very cheap cost.