This guide has been designed and created to teach you everything that you need to know about ShadowOps, whether your a new player just starting out wanting to know everything, or an experienced player wanting to refresh your memory, this guide is for you.
This is now Version 4.0.0 of this ShadowOps help site.
This game guide has been created and designed by:
Devistation [CoW]
Holyavenger
You can enter the 'Probe Room' whenever you want to, but weather you have any probes in the probe room is a different story, you will first need to construct probe silos (see the 'Space Stations' page of this help site for more information) to store your probes in. Probe silos can hold up to 100 probes each, and will also produce 1 probe every revolution, unless you have robotic probe factory's researched (see the 'Research' page of this help site for more information), after which you will gain x1.5 probes per probe sile, per rev (see the space station page of this help site for the probe income formulas).
Once you enter the probe room, you basically have two options, you can either build probes, this is instant, and will cost you 400 money, 250 deterium and 200 power per probe, or you can send your probes on a probe mission.
You can have a maximum of 15 probe attempts at any one time, this will go up to 20 when you research probe power savers (see the research page of this help site for more information), you will gain 1 probe mission every revolution unless you have hit your maximum (15 or 20).
| You will loose 1% of your probes for the following SUCCESSFUL missions: | Status of member |
| You will loose 2% of your probes for the following SUCCESSFUL missions: | Status of military Status of power usage |
| You will loose 3% of your probes for the following SUCCESSFUL missions: | Status of stations Status of research Steal credits Steal deterium Steal power Kidnap enemies population Sabotage enemies solar panels |
| You will loose 4% of your probes for the following SUCCESSFUL missions: | Poison enemies crew |
| You will loose 5% of your probes for the following SUCCESSFUL missions: | Steal enemies sellable research points |
| You will loose 10% of your probes for the following FAILED missions: | All missions |
It is also worth noting that if you FAIL the suicide on enemies turrets mission you will only loose 10% of the probes you sent, but if you SUCCEED you will loose ALL the probes you sent.
Also, ALWAYS remember that even if you send more probes then the person you are probing has, you still have a chance of failure.
Below is all the information about the missions you can do in the probe room.
| Mission name: | Status of member |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will be given the following information about the player, the current alert level of the players system, who the players system is at war with, who is at war with the players system, the players money income, population income, deterium income, max population, rulers name, battles won and lost, threat level, networth, stations, money, deterium, power, population, scientists, probes, crew, and finally how many of each ship the player has. This mission is very useful to find out all the information you need to successfully carry out that attack, or even tell you if the players resources are worth stealing. | |
| Mission name: | Status of military |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will be shown the current military status of the player, if any ships are currently out, and if there are ships out, how many of each ship is out and how many revs until they return. | |
| Mission name: | Status of research |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will be shown exactly what the player has already researched, what the player needs to research and what the player is currently researching. | |
| Mission name: | Status of stations |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will be given all of the information of the players space stations, how many each each building the player currently has, and if any platforms are being built on, if there are platforms being built on, it will tell you how many of each building is being built, and how many revs it will take for them to be built. | |
| Mission name: | Status of power |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will be shown the players power room status, it will show you the players power income, whether the players missiles, turrets and deterium makers are online or not. This mission is mainly used to see if the player has any defensive missiles and if they are online or not. | |
| Mission name: | Steal enemies credits |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will gain 10% of your enemies money supply. | |
| Mission name: | Steal enemies deterium |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will gain 10% of your enemies deterium supply. | |
| Mission name: | Steal enemies power |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will gain 10% of your enemies power supply. | |
| Mission name: | Kidnap enemies population |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will gain 10% of your enemies population. It is worth noting that you can also kill a player by stealing all of their population. | |
| Mission name: | Poison enemies crew |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will poison, and kill, 2% - 25% of your enemies available Crew. Available crew is crew that has not yet been assigned to a fighter, starship, cloak ship or turret. | |
| Mission name: | Sabotage enemies solar panels |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission you will destroy a random amount of solar panels (not power reactors). | |
| Mission name: | Suicide on enemies turrets |
| Mission description: | |
| If you are successful in this mission your probes will attach themselves to the enemies turrets and run their self-detruct program, which will destroy 5% - 60% of their turrets, the only problem with this is that you will loose all the probes sent to do this mission. | |
