Resource transports : extra loot !#323

These new boxes have just been shared, with this info : “These will drop on the ground whenever you throw something out of your inventory so others can pick it up”
But seeing the COG colors… It got me thinking, what else could they be used for ?

I thought of something similar to my idea in this post #295 : Some COGs would be transporting these boxes from one ship to another (you can see handles on the crates.). They couldn’t have any weapon, so they’d need an escort. If you can take down the escort and the COG, the crate will drop with some sweeeet loot. The colour of the crate indicates what type of loot will be inside, what type of ship it came from… For example, the red one, from a refinery ship, will contain ingots, refinery tech… A black one, military, would have a lot of ammo and black powder… A blue one, production, a lot of components and some production tech… And a green one, research, that would have some intel of all kinds.

This would help to bring the world to life even more, with COGs going from one ship to another every now and then, and a new way to get resources !

That could even - mayhaps - add to the difficulty.. consider a damaged drillship or laser-base arm.. a supply drillship could send such a box-loader and escort that, if reaches the damaged one, the box-loader turns to be an engineer-COG using the box supplies to fix the thing..

..this would give the “unarmed” COG a dual purpose, fix stuff and carry stuff (the box)…

..of course… if they ever get a melee option, a large engineer wrench would make it “less unarmed”.. otherwise, they could code this COG to “run away” for cover or to call nearby COGs as reinforcement.

both this and post #843 are very good ideas!