I suggest a new gear: A new kind of collectible item, similar to the weapon crate but when you collect it, nothing happens except for playing the “collect” sound maybe. The gear could look like an ammo crate, but with an exclamation mark or some other symbol on it.
This gear can be used a a collectible in missions and scripts to trigger certain events, for example.
Such a gear would be similar to the target gear, which is also only used in missions.
Please note that thes same can be kinda (!) achieved with other crates, like a weapon crate with amNothing in it (or 0 of something) or a health crate when health bonus is set to 0. But this is still sub-optimal, as both trigger messages and the health crate still cures poison.
Hi, I am a Hedgewars developer.