I. Welcome

Welcome to the official guide for DroidArena 3. This guide is designed to teach you the basics of DroidArena. This guide will look at all the aspects of the game with the exception of RSL (Robot Scripting Language) which is covered in its own manual, and has its channel on irc.droidarena.com, #rsl.

II. Changes since Season 8

Season 9 holds many changes in layout and game content, as well as bug fixes. There is a more structured and comprehensive research tree, as well as the old style of structures from earlier seasons The layout is completely changes so please take a few minutes to familiarize yourself.

In addition to the changes in the research tree comes changes in the hangar setup. There is now a spare parts section and corp armoury that is functional. Additional types of UP's have been added and a new way of applying them also has been added. Additional changes will be found throughout the remaining pages of DA.

Before we delve into the game there are a few points that we will touch on that will help you understand the game.

Layout

The Layout is divided into three main areas:

• The Top bar
• The Side Bar
• The Main Screen

• The Top Bar: This is how you get around DroidArena. The top bar contains an editable icon bar. Click on the 'edit" icon to bring up the complete list of icons available. To select or de-select an icon for the top bar just click on it from the list. There are numerous icons to choose, some you will use every time you log in, others not so often and others not at all (or very little). More on these icons later.
• The Side Bar: The side contains three tabs, the first links to the old menu system of getting around of DA with the major heading in Gold text, click on these to bring down the sub menus in Grey text. These sub menus are similar to the icon tabs from the top bar. The second tab is your corp radio (opens to this by default on login), and the third is your Digipad. Any help is displayed in the digipad, whether it is from clicking the [help] icon at the top of a page or clicking on an item to get its stats. Also on the side bar is your Character Statistics.
• The Main Screen: This is where you actually do things in DroidArena. Each sub menu on the side bar or icon on the top bar will take you to a screen where you will be able to manage a corresponding aspect of the game. It is also on these pages that you will be able to find the icons for news, new forum messages, help, new email messages, and the radio.

Your Character is you as a Decker. You are in charge of your own base and droid, what you do will determine how well you do in the game. Clicking on your Nick (or alias) in the side bar, takes you to your character's info page, clicking on another players name from the Deckers.net takes you to their character info page. This shows you a number of pieces of information that tell you how well you are doing.

Alias: This shows how your Character name and Player ID.

Corporation: This shows which (if any) corporation you belong to and your position within the corporation.

ICQ: This shows your ICQ number (if you have one set in your preferences).

Account Type: This shows if a player is a premium or a trial player.

Level: This shows your current level.

Kills: This shows the total number of droids you have destroyed in arena combat.

Last Login: This gives the date and time that you last logged in.

Rank: This shows your player rank with in the game.

Arenas Won: This shows the number of arenas you have won.

Arenas Lost: This shows the number of arenas you have lost.

Weekly Form Guide: This bar graph gives you a weekly breakdown of your performance based on the following formula: (XP/multiplier)*(Kills/arenas)*(wins/arenas)*(arenas/most arenas played this period).

Corp History: This button takes you to a page that shows your corp history (which corps you have joined/left and positions (if any) in those corps).

Send Message To Player: This button allows you to send an in game message to that player.

Player's Awards: This shows any award(s) that a player has been given.

Also on your player page at the top you will see; Deckers.Net - Celebrities Listing. This allows you to either use a manual search or alphabetical search to find other players within the game.

Each character has his / her own statistics, resources and details. A small summary of the deckers’ statistics appears at the top left of the page, and a more detailed version can be seen when clicking on your name. Other players may also see the statistics under your name, with the exception of your resources. The table below lists all the statistics displayed in the status section, the letters in square brackets mark the abbreviation letters for each statistic:

Statistic	Abbreviation	Description
[Rank]	Rank	Shows your current rank (from the toplist)
E[X]perience [P]oints	XP	This shows your current experience points (below is a bar that shows your current XP's and how many you need to level up).
[Cr]edits	CR	Credits are the main currency in Droidarena, and are used for a multitude of things, such as purchasing equipment.
[C]onstruction [P]oints	CP	Construction Points are used in the repair of equipment.
[R]esearch [P]oints	RP	Research Points are used (surprisingly) for researches.
[L]e[v]e[l]	LVL	The level statistic shows you your current level and total amount of XP
[A]rena:	A	This shows which arena (if any) you are currently in and its phase.

V. Icons

There are two types of icons that you should be familiar with. The first is the top bar Icons. This you can customize to your own taste, these clickable icons work like the sub menus from the side bar. The second type of icons are the alert icons.

Top Bar Icons

On the top bar is a tab (icon) that says 'edit' you can click this to see all the tab buttons. Click on an icon to add or remove it from your bar. The icons menu you build is stored as a cookie on your machine so if you clear the cookie the menu is reset to the default on your next login. The icons are as follows (starting at the top left and working left to right) hover your mouse over the icon to find it's name.

	News	Takes you to the main news page			New Player Guide	Takes you to the new player guide.
	New Player Chat	Connects you to the in game new player chat channel			Structures	Takes you to your Base Terminal.
	Research	Takes you to your Lab Terminal			Hangar	Takes you to your Hangar Terminal
	Script Library	Takes you to your Script Library			Fu Market	Takes you to Fu's Market.
	Corp Armoury	Takes you to the Corporation Armoury			Covert Ops	Takes you to the Spy Terminal
	Simulations	Takes you to the Sims page			Tournaments	Takes you to the Tournament page
	Arenas	Takes you to the Arena Pages			Bets	Takes you to the Bets Page
	BlackBox Log	Takes you to your Black Box logs			Deckers.Net	Takes you to the Deckers.Net
	Toplist	Takes you to the rankings			MonsterNet	Takes you to the game forum
	Global Chat	Takes you to the in game chat channel			DA Email	Takes you to your in game mail box
	Corp Flags	Takes you to the Corp Flags page			Corp Cities	Takes you to your Corporation Cities page
	Corp Members	Takes you to your Corporation Members page			Corp Bank	Takes you to your Corporation Resource page
	Corp Forum	Takes you to your Corporations Forum			Corp Chat	Takes you to your Corporations in game Chat channel
	Corp Web	Takes you to your Corporation Information Page (if leader or representative)			Corp Log	Takes you to your Corporation Log Page
	Corp Join Requests	Takes you to the Corporation Join Request page (if leader or approver			Leave Corp	Takes you to the Leave Corporation page
	DA Manual	Takes you to the DA manual			Formulas	Takes you to the Formulas used in game comes up in the digipad
	RSL Guide	Takes you to the RSL Guide			Rules	Takes you to the Game Rules
	FAQ's	Takes you to the Frequently Asked Questions page			Contacts	Takes you to the Contacts page
	Bug Reports	Takes you to the Bug Reporting page			About	Takes you to the About DA Info page
	Preferences	Takes you to the Preferences Page			Log Out	Logs you out of the game
	Edit	Clicking on this allow you to select the icons that are on the top bar

VI. Alert Icons

In top right corner of most pages alert icons will appear from time to time, these icons are as follows along with those that are normally there:

	An 'A': you will get this if you hold the position of Leader or Approver. This means that someone has requested to join your Corporation.
	An Envelope: This means you have unread DA mail
	A Face: This means there is a new post on your corporation Forum
	A News Tower: This means a new News post has been made.
	This is where help for a page can be found
	Public Log: This is where actions that all players can see are recorded such as arena takeovers and orbs being bought
	A Radio: This means a new radio post has been made in the corp radio.

NEW PLAYER GUIDE: This is a brief guide that is designed to help new players get started, it was also sent as an attachment in the validation emails everyone got upon registering.

NEW PLAYER CHAT: This takes you to the in game player chat where you will be able to ask other player for help in playing the game.

Structures: This takes you to your base terminal. from here you can look at the aspects of you base using the blue tabs.

BASE TERMINAL/DROID BASE: This page shows you what is currently built on you base: QTT; is the quantity of any type of building. BUILDINGS gives the name of the building. The square picture show how many tiles any building uses/gives. The bed picture shows how many employers the building requires. The coin shows the income/upkeep of the building in CRs. The Hammer shows the income of the building in CPs. The green vile picture shows the income of the building in RPs, Intel %; shows the Intelligence bonus the building gives. Action; gives you a DESTROY button if the building can be destroyed. This page also shows the number of unemployed people on your base and the number of unoccupied tiles.

BASE TERMINAL/PROJECTS: This page shows all the buildings that you have the knowledge to build. The name, a description of the building and its requirements are shown. any requirements shown in red indicate that the building can not be built and why.

BASE TERMINAL/BUILDING SITE: This page shows any buildings that are in the process of being built and how long until the building will be completed.

BASE TERMINAL BLUEPRINTS: The page gives a complete list of all the building, the level they become available, the cost and time to research the building as well as the building requirements and description.

Research LAB: This takes you to your lab terminal, from here you can manage the research aspect of the game.

LAB TERMINAL/PROJECTS: This page shows all the research available at the time. It gives the name, cost of the project in time and resources, any other requirement (such as spy levels for spying based projects) and a description for each research. When you are able to start a project a button will appear next to the research saying START.

LAB TERMINAL/ONGOING: This shows your current project and the time until it is completed.

LAB TERMINAL/COMPLETED: This shows all the projects you have completed.

LAB TERMINAL/RESEARCH TREE: This show the four research trees (Constructions, Droid systems, Arena teleport and covert op.) and a list of all the researches, their description and requirements

This takes you to your spy terminal, from here you can mange the spying aspects of the game.

SPY TERMINAL/CONTINGENTS: This page allows you to manage your spies. It tells you how many untrained spies you have and allows you to train them in one of four roles.

This page shows you how many of each type of spy you have and how many are currently on missions (prevention spies are always on missions)

SPY TERMINAL/MISSIONS: This page shows the missions you have available to do and cost to do each mission (in terms of number and type of agents, time and cost in CRs and RPs. This page also gives a description of the spy mission and allows you to perform the missions by inputting a player ID into the action box then pressing Launch. There is also a search button for each mission to allow you to use the player name to search for their PID.

The following table is a summary of the missions available in game at the moment.

SPY TERMINAL/COMPLETED: This page shows completed mission by you and on you. Missions by you give the name of the mission, the target, the time and date the mission was completed, the success of the mission and whether the target identified you. The attacks on you shows the mission name, the attacker if you where able to identify them, the date and time of the mission and whether the mission was a success.

SPY TERMINAL/ONGOING: This page shows any ongoing missions you have. The page shows the mission name, the target and an estimated time until the mission is complete. there is also a button in the action bar where you can STOP the mission.

This page takes you to your hanger terminal, from here you can manage the equipment set up of your droid. Your hangar holds a maximum of 30 items.

HANGER TERMINAL/DROID CONFIG: This shows the current configuration of your droid. This page gives a picture of each item, the statistics of the item and any RSL bonus the item gives. On this page you can unequip items, repair items, recycle item, upgrade item, change the class of items and donate items to the corp armoury. These action can be done individually or multiple items can be selected. This page also shows how many slots (and special slots) are available on your droid and how many upgrade points you have.

UPs - Upgrade Points (can be used on any upgradeable equipment statistic).

Off. UPs - Offensive Upgrade Points (can be used on weapons).

Def. UPs. - Defense Upgrade Points (can be used on shields).

Class UPs. - Class Upgrade Points (Upgrade the base stats of classed equipment such as weapons and shields. Class UPs are non-recyclable).

Important Hangar Images seen in Droid Config and Spare Parts hangars:

	Allows you to remove ups before committing them
	Allows you to add ups before committing them
	Equips an item
	Un-equip an item
	Give an item to corp (goes to armoury
	Set ups on equipment
	Recycle equipment
	Rename equipment
	Repair equipment
	Default class Icon
	Change class Icon

HANGER TERMINAL/SPARE PARTS: This page displays the picture and stats of any unequipped items you have. you can also recycle, repair, donate and upgrade items from this page.

HANGER TERMINAL/FU MARKET LINK: This page allows you to buy equipment. FU Market is divided into eight sections:

	Frames	Allows you to purchase frames
	Radars	Allows you to purchase Radars
	Weapons	Allows you to purchase Weapons
	Radio	Allows you to purchase communication devices
	Scripts	Allows you to purchase pre-made RSL scripts
	Special Devices	Allows you to purchase special devises
	Processors	Allows you to purchase processors
	Shields	Allows you to purchase Shields

The stats of each item can be found by clicking on the name (which brings up the Digit Pad) FU Markets shows the level and cost of each item.

HANGER TERMINAL/CORP ARMOURY: This page shows the corp armoury. from here Military Advisors (MAs) can allocate items to corp members and corp members can request items donated by other players. When donated items are stripped of upgrade points (in the same way as recycling) and returned to the original owner. The corp armoury holds 50 items.

This section allow you to see your personal files.

BLACKBOX LOGS: This is one of the most important sections in Droidarena. From here you can view the logs of you past arenas (up to 10), allowing you to see how you performed. You can see who you damaged, who damaged you and who killed who. The end of you log will show a breakdown of the experience you gained and the resources you gained. Blackbox logs are displayed by date/time and you can view the logs in text form or 3D movie form. You can also se a simple results page showing the xps from the arena as well who won and who held the doll.

SCRIPT LIBRARY: This page allows you to manage the script your droid uses in arenas. You and upload or delete script or create scripts using the blank script generator or using the BB Script generator (the generator will give you options based on the commands available to you).

This section allows you to view and manage the corporation aspects of the game.

CITIES: This page allows you to view the cities, either as the cities you own (and allows you to deploy orbs if you are a MA or LEADER) or to search the cities listing (based on a number of variables such as name, income in stars or corp or independent owned, percentage chance that the city will come up as an arena or the number of fights played in the city) (MAs or LEADERs can also play RAID cards to increase the percentage chance that the city will become an arena.

MEMBERS: This page shows the members of your corp by name and position. Player levels are also shown as is online status and arena status.

Leader: Can approve and fire members. Can also change positions of members and give members medals.

Approvers: Can Hire (or reject) people who apply to the corp

Communication Supervisor: Can Delete any thread in the Corp Forum.

Construction Manager: Can give CPs to any member from the Corp Bank.

Finance Advisor: Can give CRs to any member from the Corp Bank

Military Advisor: Can play Raid Cards and buy ORBS. Cans also allocate equipment from the Corp Armoury.

Representative: Can Update the Corp Information Page

Research Specialist: Can give RPs to any member from the Corp Bank.

Member: Any member of the corp without a position.

BANK: This page gives you an overview of the corp resources. Here you can donate resources to the corp (unless you are a Trail user) or if you hold a position in the corp you are able to give a resource to a member (using the PID) Members can also request resources, this is useful if a resource manager is not online, the manager can then see who has requested resources and allocate them.

FORUM: This takes you to the corp internal Forum. Here you can post threads and view and reply to threads. Any player can delete a thread they started. The forum is divided into 4 section

• Internal Affairs
• External Affairs
• Misc/Other
• Off topic.

CORP CHAT: This opens a new window that links you to your corps public IRC channel. Here you can communicate and chat with your corp mates easily.

CORP Radio: This opens the corp radio. This is primarily used for brief messages to others in the corp.

WEB: This page (also known as 'Corp Identity') allows LEADERs and REPs to update the corp info page (which can be view from the corp page by clicking the [main] link. Here a description of your corp is displayed, the corp flag and any external link to fan-sites that the corp may have made. Their is also a link to send a request to join the corp on this page.

LOG: This page shows the recent log of corp activities (recourse/equipment transfers, medals, orb purchases, raid card, join request/rejections, member approvals, members that leave or are fired ). The log displays a description of the log and the date/time of the event. A full log can be seen with a link at the bottom of the page.

JOIN REQUESTS: This page allows APPROVERs and LEADERs to see join requests. They can then view the stats of player and choice whether to approve or reject the request. APPROVERs and LEADERs will get an A icon appear on the top bar when a request has been made.

LEAVE CORP: This page allows you to leave your corp.

This is the section to go to if you need any help.

MANUAL: The game manual can be found here.

RSL GUIDE: A guide to RSL (Robot Script Language) Can be found here.

RULES: The rules are found here. There is also a link to the Droidarena Privacy Policy.

FAQ: Some frequently asked questions are answered here.

CONTACTS: Here you can contact the administration team of Droidarena (either  by selecting a specific Admin or by selecting Any Admin.) There is also a link to contact the company.

BUG REPORTS: This is the place to go if you find a bug in the game.

ABOUT: This page tells you the people behind Droidarena.

This section Allows you to change you preferences.

PREFERENCES: Here you can change you login password, your Email Address, your ICQ Number and you can subscribe to the Droidarena Newsletter. You can also Delete your character

(This is Difficult to undo (contact an admin (and ask nicely) So think CAREFULLY before proceeding here)

LOG OUT: Click here to log out

VIII. About

Would you have further questions, please read our FAQ, contact other players on IRC or our administrators through the contact form that can be found within the game.