How to create an active from the current position of another active?

[cherryblossom]

My client would like to know how to create an active from the current position of another active. There would be three actives in the game. The active 2 would always follow the active 1. The active 1 would be moved with the keyboard. When the player would push a key the following would happen: the active 3 would be created on top of the background, under the active 1 and the active 1 would return to the starting position.
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[BrashMonkey]

Create the object off screen, at -1000,-1000 for example and then immediately set the x and Y positions of this new object to match the positions of the object you want it to be spawned from. THere is also an option within the first object called "shoot" or "launch" and object (I can't remember the name) which could work.. you could shoot at speed 0.

[FalconsoftIndustries]

There is a create action you can use.

[cherryblossom]

My client thought that she would tell what is the idea of the game. She is making the it for two players. There are two arrows in the game that are fake mouse pointers. The one of them is moved with arrorw keys and the other one is moved with WASD keys. Both of the players have a key (shift/enter) that they can use to set the objects to the game area.

Create the object off screen, at -1000,-1000 for example and then immediately set the x and Y positions of this new object to match the positions of the object you want it to be spawned from. THere is also an option within the first object called "shoot" or "launch" and object (I can't remember the name) which could work.. you could shoot at speed 0.

That almost works (number 1). But she would like to limit it so that the players could set objects only when the arrows would be in a certain area. She already tried number 2, but it didn't work. It broke the game so that the objects couldn't be set there: https://imgur.com/sMdksWN

Those objects are dublicates. My client would like to know how to count, how many dublicates are in a row: https://imgur.com/4AZeHsN
The idea is that when one of the players has set certain amount of objects in a row, a text would appear that would say which player has won.

[cherryblossom]

The question was, how to count how many duplicates are in a row.