Super Spy

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The Super Spy mission is a race-specific ability that only the Bird Men can use. Super Spy has the basic function of obtaining information about enemy planets. There are additional Super Spy missions that have additional abilities, Super Spy Deluxe, Super Spy Advanced and Super Spy Command, which allow you to change the friendly codes of enemy planets, and prevent fighters from launching.

Missions

Super Spy (basic)

Gives you information on enemy planets. Tells you the planet's Friendly Code, as well as the number of factories, mines, defense posts, supplies and MC on the surface. Mineral information is partially given as the amount of total minerals on the planet (on the surface + in the crust). Mineral density is not given. Native life information is not given.

Super Spy Deluxe

Allows you to attempt to change the friendly code of a planet. One of your ships in orbit will have a 20% chance of changing the planet's friendly code when performing the Super Spy mission. For each additional ship you have in orbit, you get an additional 20% chance of changing the friendly code. 5 ships will therefore give you a 100% chance of changing the planet's FC. Only one of your ships in orbit has to use the super spy mission to change the friendly code. The friendly code of your lowest ID# ship performing the super spy mission will set the planet's FC.

Ion Pulse

If you succeed at changing the planet's FC, there is a 20% chance that the planet will shoot an ion pulse into orbit and de-cloak all ships in orbit. Ion pulses sacrifice 10 defense posts to work, and will only occur if the planet has at least 30 defense posts.

Strategy

  • A good use for the Super Spy mission is to steal megacredits by changing the planet's friendly code to BUM ("beam up money"). This FC makes the planet beam up all its megacredits to any foreign ship in orbit.
  • Changing a planet's friendly code allows you to control enemy minefields, which take on the FC of the nearest planet belonging to that player. Any ships with the same friendly code passing through the minefield will not hit any mines.
    • If you set a MFx friendly code on a planet (where x is any character), it acts as friendly code for all minefields belonging to the player who owns the planet. The global MFx friendly code only applies if it is the planet with the highest ID# belonging to that player. If the player has a different MFx code set at a planet with a higher ID#, that will be the global friendly code instead.
  • Changing the friendly code to NUK will cause it to attack fuel-less ships in orbit (but not Birdman ships). So, if you have an ally, they can bring a fuel-less ship into orbit, and have it be attacked by the planet, while not having to fight any ships there. Birdman ships have (limited) planet immunity which prevents them from being attacked in this way (any fuel-less Bird ship with 1 beam or more cannot be attacked by a planet set to NUK).

Super Spy Advanced

Super Spy Advanced gives you information about the enemy starbase. It reveals number of fighters and defense, damage, ships under construction and tech levels. (NuHost only)

Super Spy Command

Available as an upgrade for Planets.nu campaign mode. Causes planet and starbase fighters to not launch at Bird Man ships. This ability is triggered by changing the planet's friendly code to NTP. Your allies will still have fighters launched at them. Keep in mind that one of your ships in orbit will have to set their friendly code to NTP in order to change the planet's FC to NTP, which means they will not fire torpedoes or launch fighters as well. (NuHost Campaign mode only)

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