a way to track how many investosr are currently spawned would be useful, could also let people be certain that their map is cleansed without clearing all

also a way to help with performance would be to introduce an option that makes it so an investor has to "eat" (kill npcs) a certain amount of times before it can reproduce. I'd also like to suggest an alternate option where infestors never clean themselves up for people like me who want to have massive amounts of them and don't mind single digit fps.

a hazmat suit, decontamination tools, and things like that

A containment vial, seedlings and spreaders can be put into the vials that have a fluid inside that stop them from growing. They stay inside the vial when its moved and the vial can be opened if you press E on the top, allowing you to put seedlings and spreaders inside. If throw or dropped the vial can break and the seedling or spreader inside will fall onto the ground. Great for role playing research before they escape and spread.

New Infestor Idea: Meet the Infestor Controller, Controllers model are large bugbait models that can fit a head.
When spotting a NPC, it will roll to it like a rollermine and latch onto its head, turning them hostile to others npcs.
in about 50 seconds, the controllers host will explode into infestors and seedlings like a flood carrier.
The controller will respawn next to the exploded victim and find another npc.

a command to disable the infestors consuming ragdolls

like an infestor zombie. where a zombie has bugbait for a head instead of a headcrab and drops acid infestor upon death or something

The scout: The scout is an infestor but then it searches for spots to colonize so it can expand, Avoiding any attacks from hostile forces, So like an example Spot 1 is an big spot filled with infestors, If it was attacked, Scouts will be searching a spot to create a new colony, Bringing the others to help, Meaning the infestors would live as long they have scouts that are looking for spots.

Spider infestor and an infestor zombie

infestors can't grow outside of spaces enclosed by doors or props (they can still grow out of fences and gaps)

The Feeder: Feeders go out of the hive and find corpses that they will "Feed on" after they feed on the corpse they grow in size and then they roll to a nearby tall building and if none is found it will just stand still and it will start growing tentacles out, very slowly but once its done a sort of bio-growth will start to form around it which will grow into fully flesh forms of Trolly's infester commander idea

can you add infestor virus or is it already a virus?

YOU SHOULD MAKE THE INFESTATION CHOOSE TO EITHER USE IT AS A HOST AND SPREAD THE BACTERIA FASTER, OR MAKE IT A MOBILE SPREADER(LIKE A ZOMBIE OR NECROMORPH, XENOS Eg) sos for caps

the burner
its basic its has 2 versions a melee and a range
range:it shoots tiny spews of fire and slowly rolls at the player and explodes when it dies in a fire bomb style
melee:rolls extremely fast and can do a little hop to just explode in 3 seedlings aka the version where it cant do nothing in a fiery death also shooting the seedlings away from the player

Add every diffirent infestor to the normal spawnmenu