How to make a mother ship/carrier

[BroPiggy]

I want to make a mother ship that makes new fighters continuously. Any know how to get a ship to pump out unlimited fighters (if its possible)

[An Ning]

I believe the Abyss has what you are looking for. Spawn one on "player team" in designer and take a look at it

[arandompersons]

oh, to make one, you need a few things. first: you can either directly make a mothership, or make a duplicator. or a constructor. your choice.

a mothership will spawn in its drones when it spawns in at the same time. allowing for already built drones that are with the mothership to summon in with it. if you are building this from a blueprint, the drones will also become blueprints i think.

a duplicator, self replicates endlessly and can chew through ungodly amounts of resources, and create alot of lag, to outswarm enemies essentially.

or a constructor, to make drones etc. its not like a mothership. but it still creates drones from the ground-up.

to make a mothership, you need your: mothership and make/find whatever you want your drone/s to be first. once you have a drone and the mothership craft. make sure you are out of build mode etc. press E and look at the crafts in the top-left on your screen. they should be displayed up there. then you gotta put em into a fleet together, to do that. look around for a button that will allow you 2 merge 2 crafts into a fleet. THEN! key point! check which is the flagship, aka your drone. or the mothership. if its the drone, then split em apart and switch up which ones you connect, OR simply make the mothership the flagship via a flag icon i think it is. the mothership usually needs to be the flagship. once your mothership that you want to be your flagship, is now your flagship and both forces are in a fleet, then place a sub-vehcile spawner on the mothership. and then select the other ship/s or crafts of any kind in your fleet... ( make sure you got enough sub-vehcile spawnwers for multiple drones ), next, you are usually going to need a docking station and a few extra ACBs. then build about 2 extra ACBs and enough docking stations to house the drones. then go to one of the empty ACB's and set up a trigger, liek if an enemy enters a 3,000 range, the go to the middle section, select docking stations, and set it to undock with the mothership. this will allow for drones to get released from the mothership. and do the same thing with the other ACB but set it to dock with the mothership, and set up a new trigger so the drones can get recalled.

also. make sure you configure your sub-vehcile spawners and docking stations! set them to an ok range away from the parent craft so they don't collide with the mothership. generally, the bigger the craft, the longer the range you are going to want to use to keep the drones and mothership from colliding.

you are probably wanting this.
a constructor is simple, find a craft that you want to make whatever craft you want it to make. place a blueprint spawner on it. then place an ACB on it and then set up the ACB with a trigger. i usually either set it to work once every 100 seconds or to set it to work when an enemy comes within, say 4,000 range. that should alert yo to em early and allow for your drones to get built up a bit before an enemy comes through. then once your ACB is set up with that, make sure the next ticked option, down the middle row on the ACB is construction spawners and then set it to build the default blueprint. then make sure your craft has a vehcile blueprint spawner on it. and then put in the name of the craft that you want it to summon into the text box. usually located around the bottom right side of the screen, make sure you have the craft saved first aka, the one you want to build, so well. your ship can actually load it in.. and then it should work, if it doesn't... check how much resources you have. check the ACB and check the vehcile spawner. just saying.... this can rapidly chew through resources. AND DON'T FORGET! repair tentacles..... these will build the craft for you. you can't build quickly on your own.

a duplicator is essentially the whole constructor paragraph. but you also build everything thats on your constructor that you need to summon vehciles. aka the ACB, the vehcile blueprint spawner and repair tentacles. and then once thats set up, make sure the craft you want it to summon also has everything you need, or just simply make the craft summon an exact copy of itself. it should be able to futher summon another blueprint of itself.... just saying, it can never end unless you got rid of the ACB's or the vehcile spawners on EACH of the duplicators. or their trigger doesn't allow it to continue duplicating.

i.... think i got it all down.... i dunno. i hope some of this helps...

[BroPiggy]

Thanks for the help