OPS Academy · Classroom
Everything about every OPS job: how the systems work, the kit and what it does, every step, health & safety, and what happens when it’s done wrong. Pass the safety modules and exams here or in OPS Work → Training — results count in game. Certification also needs a practical, done in game at an OPS Academy training centre.
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Configuring OPS
Every way to change how the OPS systems work — files, OPS Hub and the phone — and what each setting group does.
11 slidesYour first OPS job
From signing in to getting paid — what an engineer does, step by step.
7 slidesCourses
CCTV installer
Electrical installation (Part P)
Fibre splicing & testing
Network installation
US FTTH installer
US central office & NOC
US outside plant & splicing
How the systems work
OPS Mobile network
Every phone call, text and bit of mobile data goes through OPS Mobile's masts. Each tower covers a radius; phones show bars based on the strongest tow…
Electricity: San Andreas Power & Light
Power stations feed 400 kV transmission to substations, which step it down to 11 kV feeders, then pole transformers to LV, and a service drop to each …
Fibre & copper network (OPS Openline)
Exchanges house the OLT (fibre light source), the MDF (copper), core routers and power plant (rectifiers, batteries, generator).…
OPS Network ISP
A line is a customer, a package and an ONT. Ordering raises an install job; completing it activates the line: ONT linked, public IPs assigned, router …
US fiber network (OPS America)
There is no single US network company. OPS America plays a large US fiber operator that owns its access network end to end: customer premises, fiber a…
OPS Secure CCTV
A system is a recorder (NVR or DVR) and its cameras. IP cameras use PoE over CAT6; analogue cameras need a DVR; wireless cameras need Wi-Fi and a powe…
OPS Data centres & OPS Cloud
Racks, UPS, generators and CRAC cooling within 25 m form a hall. Racks need power (UPS or socket), a ToR switch and a CAT6 uplink to an online router.…
The in-game internet: domains, websites, DNS, email & SSL
A real web for the city, on phones (mobile data) and laptops (Ethernet). ops.sa is OPS Search.…
OPS Track
GPS trackers fitted in vehicles: live position, theft alerts and an immobiliser on Pro units.…
OPS Fuel
Underground or bunded tanks, automatic tank gauges, dispensers, a canopy, an emergency stop, a tanker fill point and vent stacks.…
San Andreas Solar
Panels → DC isolator → hybrid inverter → consumer unit, with a home battery beside the inverter.…
Jobs, money & the business layer
Open → accepted (a snapshot of the world is taken) → the work is done for real → checked against the world → the customer pays → the company is credit…
Training, certification, safety & the job assistant
Each job family has a course: classroom lessons, a safety module, an exam and (if enabled) an in-game practical at the OPS Academy. Installation work …