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  #Designer, Tier 2 Strain
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  ##Playing as a Designer
  As a designer you give up your ability to directly place resin walls and doors, in exchange for making the hive building experience better for your sisters. This strain aims at helping to reward the time for other builders by making their life, and the hives, easier.

  You accomplish this by placing different nodes down that other hive builders can use to quickly build walls and doors, This allows you to focus on making sure the hive is built up quickly and efficiently, while your sisters can focus on getting resin down and defending the hive.

  You can build nodes at a far range and do not need direct line of sight (Although it helps!).

  You also gain stronger pheromones at a T3 rating and your tackles stun hosts for longer!

  ##Node Types - Up to 36 nodes can exist at the same time:
  -[bold]Construction Node[/bold]: This that allows sisters to build weedbound walls and doors quickly. Any xeno with plasma can interact with these nodes to summon a weedbound wall in 4 seconds.
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  -[bold]Weedbound Resin[/bold]: Weedbound resin walls and doors are built from construction nodes, they will break when the weeds under them break. They cannot be upgraded to thick variants either ([bold]They are very weak to fire![/bold])

  When Hivelords (Not Designer), Carriers, Burrowers, or the Queen interact with construction nodes, they become thick variants.

  When weedbound resin is destroyed, it will collapse into weak sticky resin, or normal sticky resin if thickened.
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  -[bold]Flexible (Cost) Node[/bold]: Any wall, door, etc built on this node has a 50% discount of plasma cost.
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  -[bold]Optimized (Speed) Node[/bold]: Any wall, door, etc built on this node is built 50% faster.
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  ##Designer Abilities:
  -[bold]Toggle Long-Range Sight[/bold]: Increases your vision to see more of the battlefield. You can place nodes as far as the eye can see!
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  -[bold]Greater Resin Surge[/bold]: Transform all nodes within 7 tiles of you into unstable thick resin walls. They decay in 13 seconds. They can soak host spits, but will break in 1 melee hit. (In the future, it will create weak reflective resin walls)
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  -[bold]Toggle Node Type[/bold]: Switches between placing wall nodes and door nodes. This only affects construction nodes. For Flexible and Optimized nodes, it's a way to show your design intentions with your sisters.
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  -[bold]Remote Upgrade[/bold]: Remotely upgrade placed resin walls/doors to thick resin versions.
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  -[bold]Remove Nodes[/bold]: Remotely deletes a design node on the targeted tile.
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  -[bold]Inherited Actions[/bold]: You inherit all the actions of a standard hivelord, excluding transfering plasma and direct resin construction.

  ##Playing as a designer:
  Designer is put in category of: Support/Anti-Push

  General purpose of designer is to expand hive with help of other builders by benefiting them with building speed or decreased construct cost, There are many ways to spend your round as designer, and here are examples:


  [bold]Alone[/bold]
  This one is not recommended, designer is intended to cooperate with anyone, but if you just hate everyone or the hive lacks anyone to help you; you can layout construct nodes around and wait for marines. Then you can use the construction nodes to create instant mazes for your retreating sisters or to trap hosts.

  [bold]With Other Builders[/bold]
  This is intended way to play this strain, you cooperate with any other builder caste. Cooperating style should be different depending on "who" you are cooperating with and "where":

  -[bold]Lesser Drones:[/bold]: Working with lessers, node use depends on the situation. If you are close to frontline and have lesser drones that are trying to build walls/doors, you can help them out by placing optimized nodes and remote thicken their structures. If you two are somewhere safe, then use flexible nodes. Due to the low plasma pool that lessers have, it allows them to construct more structures.
  -[bold]Drones[/bold]: If you are cooperating with drones, it's recommended to use speed nodes to make construct quicker, and it synergies with your ability to remote thicken structures. Alternatively, the use of cost nodes are slightly more expensive, but they decrease use of plasma by 50%, so if you are thickening their structures and run out of plasma, they can supply you with the plasma that got saved from using plasma nodes.
  -[bold]Hivelords[/bold]: This one situation dependent, it's highly recommended to use flexible nodes, because they can construct way more walls/doors than usual. Optimized nodes are recommended only when you are close to battlefield and need to very quickly made walls to stop enemy progression.
  -[bold]Queen[/bold]: For the first 30 minutes queen has no plasma cost for constructions, so if you pair it up with your optimized nodes, you can make twice as many defences. When you run out of plasma, since the Queen does not spend plasma, she can remotely transfer you plasma (unless other sisters are dying to planet hosts). Post-drop is different, you still should prefer speed nodes, but if queen struggles with plasma reserves its good to switch for cost nodes if there are no other builders present nearby to cooperate with you.
  -[bold]Other castes with plasma[/bold]: This is a special case, where you can cooperate with anyone who has plasma thanks to construct nodes. They allow you to make walls/doors depending on what marker is shown on top of it. Keep in mind, anyone who donates plasma will create "weedbound" variants that cannot be upgraded and will break if weeds are gone, so its better to use it in case of emergency, or if you lack anyone nearby to help you. You can donate your own plasma to build it, but it's better if you cooperate with someone because you pay 70 plasma to make node and 70 to make it auto-build by itself.

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