I'm not really sure where you guys are seeing this as being too powerful. It's the same parasite, it does the exact same thing. 90% of the time you can tell when a parasite is a marine because it's moving or from its location, I will admit that. This plugin just makes that information a little more user friendly. Ultimately it gives the aliens no significant gameplay perks and couldn't possibly overpower them.

What it does do is help the aliens communicate with each other. Wyz made a valid comparison to the chamber-count plugin earlier tonight; aliens were able to communicate the number of chambers that were available, but it was just an unnecessary inconvenience. With the plugin, that's one less small piece of information that aliens need to go out of their way to share with eachother and instead it's now provided on their HUD. It's the same with parasite. The hive sight is there to facilitate the sharing of information between aliens. Aliens could very well just keep tabs on everything without any of those icons and tell their teammates everything but that would make coordinating the team significantly harder.

The aliens are a hive mind, they're supposed to be linked such that they instinctively share all of this information. Remember when any marine within sight of an alien showed up as parasited? That sort of thing. Sure that alien could have just told everybody "There are # marines here!" but that feature just made it simpler. With this plugin, the pointless task of staring at a parasite sprite to see if it moves a little bit is made easier, and more importantly the teamwork of the aliens just comes more naturally. Isn't that exactly what we want, for this server especially? Why is it that you guys think we should be intentionally leaving in obstacles to teamwork rather than trying to simplify it?