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This week I'm taking a look on sphere internal combat engine to make many optimizations/improvements, and for my surprise, I found an reasonable big code about some features that honestly I think it must be done by scripts and not hardcoded:

1. the COMBAT_TARGETTEDHIT setting on sphere.ini, which will force the char hit an targetted region of the body (head/foot/...)
2. the internal "hit location" messages, which are just messages like "You hit someone on the head/foot/..." and doesn't make any difference on the real damage
3. the old [Physical/Fire/...]DAMAGE behavior which add an aditional damage for each *DAMAGE used. Note that we already have a new DAM[Physical/Fire/...] which this one works correctly as it should be, it will split the base damage into different types and use RES[Physical/Fire/...] to resist each one. The idea is remove the old *DAMAGE and use only the new DAM*
   

I think these 3 features can be removed from the internal source, it will make the combat code much more clean and optimized (in other words: lightweight / fast), and if someone still want these features, it can be done on script-side without any problem. The main idea is optimize the code making it lightweight, and if someone want aditional damages, formulas, etc, it can be done using scripts

so the question is: someone still using these features? If yes, there's any problem to move it from hardcoded to scripts?