let hivelord and/or carrier reposition eggs

[misto]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):

allow hivelords and carriers, in the course of their duties as hivebuilder and hugger flinger, to reposition eggs that the queen has laid.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):

this will aid the carrier in ammunition management/trap laying, aid the hivelord in hive interior decorating/trap laying and take a slight amount of pressure off the queen. the hivelord and carrier are also somewhat lackluster in general and perhaps this utility will breathe a small amount of life into them.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

the queen will remain the source of eggs, but eggs in unused places can now be transported around by these classes.

whether you let them carry and reposition several eggs at a time or just 1, every bit helps.

naturally it will only be valid to reposition them onto weeds

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): since all eggs are basically the same you would be replicating the egglaying ability of the queen(with different flavor text for the action) but first demanding that it be "loaded" with an egg counter(checked against whether there is an unhatched egg on the ground or not, which would be removed and stored as it is loaded) rather than generating fresh eggs from plasma supply as the queen does

[Bronimin]

The egg sprites loot pretty stationary to me, I'd prefer another method...

Aliens survive indefinitely in nests? Hivelords can lay empty eggs? Carriers can spit goop onto a hugger and it survives longer? Anything but dragging eggs around, honestly.

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[Szunti]

I like the idea of hivelord carrying a single egg. This would make hivelord a mini carrier, with the added ability that they can run to a marine and latch the hugger onto his face. You would still need a carrier for mass infection, but hivelord wouldn't be defensless against a lone marine.

[misto]

ps resprite the hivelord and carrier to have gross egg lumps and holes in their backs where the eggs and huggers go like surinam toads. you know it would be great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgROaJY6Xnk

[Nick123q23]

Make drones able to move eggs around too, but the egg is inactive until it's planted back on the ground. +1

This is how eggs are actually moved around in aliens lore, instead of the queen running around shitting eggs everywhere.

[Bmc777]

Approved for Hivelords.

[Snypehunter007]

Moved to the new GitLab suggestion system.