let eggs spawn without an infestation-patch

Twiggeh

So, i just realized that player-made gestation eggs doesnt create a small infestation-patch, but the randomly spawned hive-eggs do.
This could be used as an exploit to determine which egg are spawn-eggs and which are evolving eggs.

As you can see, the topright egg is a spawn-egg while the egg besides is me evolving to a lerk.
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So, either let all eggs have a small patch of infestation, or none of them.

ScardyBob

But how am I going to make you waste all that PRes by shotgunning your egg? I personally enjoy it when aliens evolve in the middle of a hallway away from any hives. Its like giving marines free points.

On topic, +1

Svenpa

Clean and simple fix of an potential annoyance?
Yes.
+1

PsiWarp

The player eggs also don't appear to play idle animations, at least from the evolving player's perspective.

Yes to infestation, I'd like to have more than 50 HP while in egg form, especially useful when evolving away from Hives and infestation.

Dictator93

<!--quoteo(post=1846695:date=May 17 2011, 01:34 AM:name=PsiWarp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PsiWarp @ May 17 2011, 01:34 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1846695"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The player eggs also don't appear to play idle animations, at least from the evolving player's perspective.

Yes to infestation, I'd like to have more than 50 HP while in egg form, especially useful when evolving away from Hives and infestation.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I hope UWE is looking at this! Noticed this for quite some time

Rokiyo

Pretty sure that back in Ye Olde Days, armor upgrades from increasing the number of hives affected egg armor too. Between 3 hives and defense towers freely spammed about the place by gorges, end-game eggs were significantly tougher than early-game eggs (ie, they scaled with the marines teching up, so evolving didn't really feel any riskier later in the game).