Live wrote all three optional blocks of the character component in every
player construction (9,726 LOT 1 constructions: gm_pvp_info with is_gm
false and gm_level 0 for civilians, current_activity Some(None) on 9,620,
social_info always Some with guild 0 and an empty name). DLU wrote each one
only after something set its dirty flag, so civilians got none of them.
Serializations are unchanged (still only when dirty).
Writing the social block every time exposed two bugs in it: the guild ID
was never initialized (now 0), and the guild name was written with
sizeof(wchar_t) (4 on Linux) bits per character, reading past the end of
the UTF-16 string; it is now written as 16-bit characters.
Test: ReplicaConstructionTest.CharacterConstructionAlwaysWritesGmActivityAndSocialBlocks.
Check in game: log in as a civilian and as a GM, with a second player
watching; both see each other normally (name tags, GM tag/level for the
GM, no PvP flag), and starting a quickbuild or pet taming still shows the
activity to the other player.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live sent the milliseconds since the object was created on the server in
every construction header (nonzero in 142,258 of 145,677 captured
constructions; the same object constructed again later carries a larger
value by the time elapsed; the local player's own construction on load is
0). DLU always wrote 0. The client stores it in the object's config
(LWOGameObject::time_since_created_on_server).
Entities now remember when they were created (steady clock) and write
their age.
Test: ReplicaConstructionTest.TimeSinceCreatedOnServerIsTheObjectsAge.
Check in game: zone in and walk around several worlds; objects, NPCs,
enemies and other players appear and animate as before (no objects
popping, stuck or misplaced animations on platforms/spinners).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
