Add a way to more easily copy ships / clone ships

[knightelite]

Sometimes you want to make many copies of a ship, but large ships need to have the blueprint placed multiple times in order to be copied successfully.

I suggest adding a button to make a copy of an existing platform more easily next to the add platform button. You could copy an existing ship from your list of ships, or input a blueprint of a ship to create. Then the entire blueprint would be made in one shot instead of needing to repeatedly paste the blueprint on top of the ship as it gets built to make the whole thing.

Suggestion of where the button might be added.

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[Alfonse215]

I would much rather they just make it easier to paste blueprints of large ships. That solves the cloning ship problem and all of the non-cloning ship problems.

[coffee-factorio]

I want it.

I actually, kind of err. on the side of having it be a button or something you can have for an existing ship. In a single player environment, if a ship is built to a specification it is unambiguously a hull of a certain size, and what you see is what you get. A blueprint string is a string of arbitrary input, and while it makes putting an object together a pain you kind of don't want to just make a giant object in memory suddenly for a lot of reasons.

Making the default size bigger would help that situation but that's always subject to debate, based on the size of someone's PC. I would like it to cover at least the front build limit of the ship, but someone with a PC five years ago is 2 orders of magnitude less powerful than me. Might be best as a setting to do that.

[knightelite]

I would much rather they just make it easier to paste blueprints of large ships. That solves the cloning ship problem and all of the non-cloning ship problems.

Agreed, this would also be a good solution to the issue.