Trying to get a grasp what developers want

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Ultimately I'd like to see it fully tweakable outside of the code by whoever runs the server.

and

What ever it is, it has to be fast, commented well, and easy to understand. Our's is horrible because 50+ people have been hacking at it for 2+ years

maybe first step is to turn all these inlined constants to #define's, huh ? 'Big thing is to find the names.