Dedicated Empty Cell Handler?

[Rick Wagner]

Originally Posted by DeepWater

How are all of you teams that have nifty conveyor belt type pickup from the floor ball collector thingies planning to avoid <G24-A> penalties?

I think empty cells (ECs) will be a scarce resource, and if there are any loose ones on the floor, robots will fight over them, so the risk of penalties is low. A specialized EC delivery mechanism is necessary for robots that perform that function precisely because trying to herd them will be risky--opposing robots will try to steal them from the herder. If the floor collector intake is designed right, it's possible for those robots to collect the ECs without risk of having them stolen by facing the collector to the wall and having the Outpost Payload Specialist drop the EC right into the floor collector.