Easy to Reproduce Lag Issue (FPS RTS hybrid)

Okay, this might not actually be an issue, but it's driving me crazy. Hopefully, someone can try this out and let me know if I'm just seeing things. It's fairly quick to set up and try. This post also doubles as a good set of instructions for the basics of getting the FPS player into your RTS game (I want to ultimately make this a resource combined with instructions for setting up clean switching between RTS and FPS control).

1. Start with a clean RTS Engine build, and a clean starter.RTS project. Also have a starter.fps directory around to grab files from.
2. Grab the server/scripts/player.cs file from starter.fps and copy it to server/scripts/avatars/fpsPlayer.cs in starter.RTS.
3. Grab the data/shapes/player directory from starter.fps and copy it to data/shapes/fpsPlayer in starter.RTS.
4. In server/scripts/avatars/fpsPlayer.cs, change the very first exec line to point to your new data directory:

exec("~/data/shapes/fpsPlayer/player.cs");

5. In server/init.cs, add a line to exec your new fpsPlayer.cs script:

exec("./scripts/avatars/fpsPlayer.cs");

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6. Repeat step 5 in your server/scripts/core/game.cs file. My understanding is that the exec's should happen in the same order in both these files. I have mine happening right after player.cs gets exec'd. Also, I had to ultimately add a line for scripts/fx/environment.cs into my game.cs, so that it matched up with init.cs. If I don't do this, the game crashes during datablock transfer.
7. In server/scripts/core/gameConnection.cs, replace the existing onClientEnterGame with this:

function GameConnection::onClientEnterGame(%this)
{
   commandToClient(%this, 'SyncClock', $Sim::Time - $Game::StartTime);

   %clientIndex = %this.getClientIndex();
   %this.setTeam(%clientIndex);

   %offset = ((%this.getTeam()-1) * (%unitsPerDir + 5));

   // Create a new camera object.
   %this.camera = new Camera() {
      dataBlock = Observer;
   };
   MissionCleanup.add( %this.camera );
   %this.camera.scopeToClient(%this);

   // Setup game parameters, the onConnect method currently starts
   // everyone with a 0 score.
   %this.score = 0;

   // Create a player object.
   %this.createFPSPlayer((%offset*5) SPC (%offset*5) SPC "250");
}

8. Also in gameConnection.cs, add the following function:

function GameConnection::createFPSPlayer(%this, %spawnPoint)

{
   if (%this.player > 0)  {
      // The client should not have a player currently
      // assigned.  Assigning a new one could result in 
      // a player ghost.
      error( "Attempting to create an angus ghost!" );
   }

   // Create the player object
   %player = new Player() {
      dataBlock = PlayerBody;
      client = %this;
   };
   MissionCleanup.add(%player);

   // Player setup...
   %player.setTransform(%spawnPoint);
   %player.setShapeName(%this.name);
   
   // Starting equipment
   %player.setInventory(Crossbow,1);
   %player.setInventory(CrossbowAmmo,10);
   %player.mountImage(CrossbowImage,0);

   // Update the camera to start with the player
   %this.camera.setTransform(%player.getEyeTransform());

   // Give the client control of the player
   %this.player = %player;
   %this.setControlObject(%player);
}

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