[Jon Stratis]

Yes, this is potentially a problem. However, solutions for it introduce other problems. Many people here have suggested taping one type of ball - that tape poses two problems for robots: first, the ability to grip the ball changes, and second that tape could be pulled off the ball and into a teams mechanism. At this point, i think it's too late for them to change game pieces all together, and as they are the only 3 commercially available colors, they can't obtain other colors easily.

All that being said, an easy solution for this would be with a rule clarification from the GDC - rather than penalizing people for picking up multiple empty cells, they can penalize you for delivering more than 1 empty cell at a time to the fueling station. The intent of the rule is to prevent people from picking up all the empty cells from their outpost and delivering them to their fueling station at once - rather, you have to decide if the time trade off of running back and forth is worth it.

Lets face it - picking up multiple empty cells and dumping/shooting them into another robots trailer doesn't give a team any sort of advantage, especially if those empty cells were picked up accidentally amidst the hundred moon rocks on the field.