first, a correction: the towers do have models. the king tower shows its
cannon and the princess towers carry health bars, and health bars are
built inside Character::Character. so objects from the opening state get
their models after all, and the listener theory that sent me around the
houses was wrong. only troops are missing.
the difference is one field. LogicCharacter::getDeployT is
clamp(DeployTime - this[47], 0, DeployTime)
and field 47 is our deploy_timer, which we set to zero and never moved.
so every troop reads as still coming down, for the whole battle: it
keeps the spawn effect and the sound the user could hear, and never
gets a body. towers are unaffected - their deploy time is zero.
the counter now climbs a tick at a time, the way the client's own
simulation would, and a moving character starts in state 1 as
LogicCharacter::setDefaultState leaves it.
widening the push interval to ten seconds changed nothing, so the
tear-down theory is out too.
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