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I have followed your suggestions and made the necessary changes

Your edits have clarified a few things, but several of my points seem to remain unaddressed:

• Workers hatched from eggs: is it the 6‐square distance or reaching rank 11/3 that matters for promotion? These are the same for the workers in the setup but not guaranteed to be the same for hatchlings (indeed guaranteed different for hatchlings from eggs adjacent to the honey in the setup)
• It's not clear what ‘anywhere the colony it belongs to can control it’ means; this seems to suggest you intention is that it must be within the first 5 ranks so that all eggs adjoining it will be within the first 6 (i.e. the colony) but since you haven't defined ‘control’…
• The question about order was not to do with the eggs (choosing an order is meaningless anyway as neither player knows what a given egg contains) but with the honey cells: is it necessary to saturate an entire honey cell before moving onto the next one (as a literal reading of the texts suggests) or is it enough to select any six cells individually adjoining arbitrary honey (in which case reference to “the next honey”, f. ex., is misleading)
• The order of events with respect to the semiautomatic effects of impregnation/egg‐laying/hatching is still not addressed

It's not that hard to count 19 empty cells

19 is a big number! ;‌)