How to get carrier? Where are they?

[supernet2]

As the title inquires.

How did you get a carrier? And in what faction and at what area did you dock to buy it?

I seen in the wiki something called a dropper but im not sure where to go, where to find it. Im a huge fan of Drone gameplay, like in eve, fleeting hundreds of drones piloting multiple accounts. But in this game i can see the opportunity here to have basically a rick rolling drone fleet.

Just not understanding how to go about unlocking them and or where to go to buy them yet.

[supernet2]

Figured it out, their literally 2 grids away from Olympus or 1 grid away to the left of race Track 02 to the left. Only took me traveling all around the map from the right in each grid crawling it till i found it. Lol

[Draco]

There are 3 actual 'carrier' class ships in the game, but they are huge capital ships with some special restrictions, and frankly underpowered as a result in the base game. A mod exists to beef them up and IMO it makes them worth it.

Tiburon, made by The Pride, unarmed light carrier that looks like a smaller version of their bases
Rex, made by The Beggars, Brig's big brother with an impressive health pool and armed to the teeth with railguns
Cormorant Mk2, made by TSF, the biggest, meanest carrier in the game

The 'Reborn' faction has a lot of ships similar to Dropper in that they can drop smaller ships.

I would probably avoid Droppers because they are unarmed, and once you drop the drones you can't do anything else with it until you dock to replenish them.

Swordfish corvettes, made by Kind, have a secondary 'ship shooter' weapon that drops teardrop drones like the Dropper does, but it replenishes it as ammo over time in battle. In storymode they don't exist until after you take over sanctuary.

[chaosavy]

So there are ships that can launch other ships -

Some are attached - like in the case of a Cutter corvette having attached Furies
Some can be auto built in the ship and launched - like the Beggar destroyer Envy (that has a hangar that can build ships)
Some can be specifically manufactured by the player then launched - like the Reborn carrier Rex (that can be docked with and functions like a mini base)

So it can get a bit complex in a sense for new players.

[supernet2]

Originally posted by chaosavy:

So there are ships that can launch other ships -

Some are attached - like in the case of a Cutter corvette having attached Furies
Some can be auto built in the ship and launched - like the Beggar destroyer Envy (that has a hangar that can build ships)
Some can be specifically manufactured by the player then launched - like the Reborn carrier Rex (that can be docked with and functions like a mini base)

So it can get a bit complex in a sense for new players.

Thats what i was trying to figure out, this is missing from the wiki. Thank you for explaining! I was looking for the Envy Destroyer that auto builds units and fields them, then also the Cutter Corvette, and also the mini rex. Wasn't aware only certain factions have access to such technologies. Thank you again for answering!

[chaosavy]

Cool.

It doesn't help that the Envy can be considered a carrier because it builds and launches ships - and it is different than a Rex that does this too - but also you can dock with the Rex and build/house specific ships in the Rex (using ore).

So the term carrier is pretty loose in Void Destroyer 2.