Game Development: Surveyor's Delight

We've been developing, and here's what's new.

New Implementations
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• Implemented client-side authority surveys.
  • The client can now arbitrarily set and transfer the desired height of individual survey points to the server.
  • Used that to implement some basic sculpting tools.
  • You can pull a corner point of a survey to raise the slope of the surveyed area relative to that point.
  • You can pull any other point to move the survey area generally.
  • You can hold shift to select/create a sub-area of multiple survey points, which can be similarily modified as the survey generally.
  • Realize fully that this is not the full 3d-modelling tool required to perfectly terraform, but it is perhaps a start, and it should allow custom client makers to create their own tools to aid in surveying.

Key Fixes
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• Significant server side optimization work has been performed on hittesting, object delta transfers, protocol object lists, &c, which should imply significant performance gains not least in terms of peak user capacity.
• Fixed a bug, active since the attribute modifier remake, by which the loss of knockout protection from murderous raged failed to apply correctly.
• Fixed a bug, active since the attribute modifier remake, by which the attributes previously buffed by various alchemical ingredients accidentally changed. Previously modified attributes have now been restored.

Small Fixes
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• Redrew several icons, mostly under the "Crafting" submenu, in higher resolution.

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In the Pipe
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• Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.
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