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
Building ships in ShadowOps is extremly important, without ships, you will not be able to defend against an attack, nor will you be able to attack other players.
At the very top of this page you will see two links, the first one is build ships, the second one is construction status, i will explain both below.
When you click the shipyards link you will be taken straight to the build ships page.
The first thing that you will see on this page is the crew section. In this section you will be shown how much population you have availble to be trained into crew, how much crew you can train at that point in time, how much crew you can support in total, and finally how much crew you currently have waiting to be deployed. You need to build supply depots to support your crew, 1 supply depot supports 100 crew, it also costs you 150 credits to train each crew member.
Underneath that you will find the turret section. In this section you will be shown how much crew you have avaiable to train into turrets, turrets cost 1,500 money, 1,150 deterium and 5 crew to build, they must be turned on to function, and use 250 power per turret per rev once turned on (see the 'Power Allocation' page on this help site for more information), you will also be shown how many turrets you can build at that point in time, and finally you will be shown how many turrets you currently own. Turrets are built instantaneously.
Finally underneath that will be information on all of your ships. This section will show you how much crew you have available to use to build ships, how many spaces you have on your fighter pads, and how many of your fighter pad spaces you are currently using. Underneath that you will be shown all the ships that you have researched, how much each ships costs in money and deterium, how many crew members you will need to build each ship, how many of each ship you own, how many of each ship you are building, and finally the maximum amount of each ship you can build at that point in time.
Some play types actually have to pay more or less to build ships, below is a formula to help you work out how much it will cost you to build x amount of ships. To find out the base cost of all ships, money and deterium, look in the table below in the ship information section.
$money = money needed to build x amount of ships.
$deterium = deterium needed to build x amount of ships.
$money = ([money cost per ship] * [play type bonus]) * [total amount of ships required]
$deterium = ([deterium cost per ship] * [play type bonus]) * [total amount of ships required]
| Ship name | Networth | Offensive | Defensive | Ship type | Money cost | Deterium cost | Crew needed |
| Cloak Seeker | 22 | 0 | 0 | Cloak unit |  310 |
 380 |
 2 |
| Lance | 9 | 2 | 2 | Fighter | 120 |
100 |
1 |
| Tweety | 18 | 4 | 4 | Fighter | 190 |
140 |
1 |
| Phoenix | 15 | 10 | 5 | Fighter | 240 |
200 |
2 |
| Python | 12 | 5 | 10 | Fighter | 210 |
200 |
2 |
| Superator | 22 | 11 | 11 | Fighter | 700 |
500 |
2 |
| Independance | 45 | 20 | 20 | Fighter | 1,500 |
850 |
3 |
| Lithinator | 26 | 7 | 10 | Starship | 600 |
600 |
5 |
| Heavy Lithinator | 36 | 10 | 15 | Starship | 1,100 |
900 |
8 |
| Kadanator | 27 | 10 | 7 | Starship | 700 |
630 |
5 |
| Heavy Kadanator | 37 | 15 | 10 | Starship | 1,200 |
900 |
8 |
| Tiger | 31 | 8 | 8 | Starship | 900 |
780 |
7 |
| Interceptor | 52 | 20 | 20 | Starship | 2,000 |
1,400 |
12 |
| Freedom | 110 | 42 | 42 | Starship | 4,200 |
2,950 |
20 |
| Supercharger | 100 | 1 | 1 | Cloak unit | 100,000 |
10,000 |
10 |
| Thunderstruck | 150 | 1 | 1 | Cloak unit | 150,000 |
15,000 |
15 |
| Turrets | 50 | 0 | * | Turret | 1,500 |
1,150 |
5 |
*Important note: Turret defence against starships is 30, but if the player has turret optimization (see the 'Research' page on this help site for more information) your turrets defence against starships will be 45. Turret defence against fighters is 5, but if the player has turret optimization (see the 'Research' page on this help site for more information) your turrets defence against fighters will be 7.5.
