What would you do to flavor it?

I editted out the comment before seeing your comment here, sorry (it mentioned that I would be in favor of a better themed and more appropriate creature-spawning mechanic). I don’t know how I would flavor it, honestly. I’m open to ideas though.

I also dislike that an action you can do for free (scouting) can destroy something so difficult to make (egg clusters, especially fertilized ones).

I think this is upside down. With this change they can be generated “as a free action”, but are not generated when the location is first scouted.

I think ideal behavior would be they appear only when scouting a foggy location (or location named foggy immediately prior to scouting), and no other time—- the exact opposite of this current proposal. Retroactively adding neighbors to the appropriate locations would be nice as well. Grandfathering in a location may be appropriate as well—but not a vent or brine pool.

I would like to vote deferential on this, but I don’t think I can do that during a Hiatus, since that provision is under the Proposals rule and not the Votable Matters rule.

I don’t like that this would require two daily actions for neighbors to spawn. If it were possible to activate the ocellus twice in a day, I might have voted differential.

We have plenty more eyes than legs right now.

CoV, going with the flow.