[Suggestion] Rewards for Defeating Intruders

[thedigitalnomad]

At this point in the game, I've practically mastered using the Engi ship to get through the game, but one thing that's still a humongous pain in my backside is when I've got intruders beaming aboard. I don't always end up with decent fighters in my crew (more often not), and I don't want to waste drone space with an anti-intruder drone. So when I do get intruders and defeat them, it's kind of a bummer that you don't actually get anything out of it. It's especially annoying when you get the random events where there's just intruders with no ship. They come in and wreck everything and you don't get anything positive at all out of the deal (especially if you just suffocate them, so none of your crew get fighting experience). Sure you get some experience fixing everything they busted up, but that's not in any way useful for future fights with intruders.

It'd be nice if maybe intruders would drop useful stuff. Something as simple as maybe dropping "weapons" that would automatically give your crew some fighting experience so they're better for the next fight whether they actually participated or not.

[ExtraCheesyPie]

Yeah, perhaps a few were carrying supplies in their packs. Maybe just some fuel, scrap, or missiles.

[an0nemus]

THIS! A thousand times this!

I'd sonner fight something with level 4 shields than get boarded by mantis fighters (don't get me started when you're boarded twice...once by a shuttle and then by the main ship).

Usually I just empty the oxygen out of most of the ship and try to tunnel the fight to my medbay.

[thedigitalnomad]

Haven't been on the forum really since I posted this, and I hope that bumps of this nature aren't frowned upon, but I'd still like to see some kind of reward for defeating intruders.