Thanks for posting this kind of design decisions discussion! Two things that might have addressed some problems:
- TDDP_MouseSystemEx plugin lets the player directly click on things to activate them without having a character visibly move to them. For documentation you'll have to go to this Wayback machine page.
- Instead of manually pasting in files omitted by "exclude unused files" they can be included in the deployment by having a do-nothing plugin with lines that look like " * @requiredAssets img/SumRndmDde/hud/pictures/Rose" to reference the files.