Truly an incredible and ambitious project and I appreciate all of it.
I agree that having a llGetDamage param makes sense. As to damage types and it being an integer, I'd be curious what you were planning for that.
I'd say a system with the most freedom and ability to create the kind of combat people want is ideal. As stated, this is not a system, it is a set of tools to create a system. The ability to abuse LSL has existed since someone first scripted exploding genitalia and it is up to the community, sim admins, etc to police that system. I hope everyone realizes this and we can get a powerful set of tools that we both create the systems we want, and also create means to police those systems and integrate that with existing parcel systems if we so choose.