Doom-Ed

We got 70 people on a base100 server, and it died after it
wedged at 100% utilization for a while. Tomorrow we will
find exactly what overflowed, and do some profiling.

Base100 is really only good for 50 or so players without
overcrowding, but we have another map being built that
should hold 100 people reasonably well.

I will look into which will be the easier path to more
server performance: scalar optimization of whatever is
critical now, or splitting it off into some more threads
to run on multiple processors. Neither one is trivial.

My goal is to be able to host stable 100 player games in
a single map.

I just added a “players” command that will dump the total
number of players in the game, and as many frags/names as
it can fit in a packet (around 50, I think).

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