Advanced Cloning

Advanced cloning is a higher form of cloning. It allows ships to be cloned at starbases after the ship limit has been reached. The following normal cloning conditions must be met to initiate a cloning:

  • A ship must be in orbit of a starbase owned by the same player
  • The ship must have the friendly code "cln"
  • The starbase must have tech levels matching the features of the ship
  • The starbase must have enough resources to purchase all the parts of the ship + twice the normal amount of money

Unlike "normal" cloning which takes place after the first Build Ship function in the Host Order Advanced Cloning takes place during the first Build Ship function in place of normal build operations. If a starbase is scheduled to build a ship in either the priority build queue (using priority points) or in the normal build queue (by id #) and the starbase meets the above cloning conditions it will clone the ship instead of building any ship it may currently have set to build. The build queue will then move on as normal. The normal ship build will be skipped for this starbase until it is prioritized again.