I've adjusted the naming conventions for the serial code (read more)

It looks like this whole branch is fucking useless, considering that I'll
need to reimplement that massive switch statement again just to determine
which overwritten method to use. I might as well not have bothered.

common/network/serial_utility.hpp

@@ -19,16 +19,24 @@
  * 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
  * distribution.
 */
-#ifndef SERIALIZEUTIL_HPP_
-#define SERIALIZEUTIL_HPP_
+#ifndef SERIALIZEUTILITY_HPP_
+#define SERIALIZEUTILITY_HPP_
+
+#include "serial_packet_base.hpp"
 
 #include "statistics.hpp"
 
-//raw memcpy
-void serialize(void** bufferHead, void* data, int size);
-void deserialize(void** bufferHead, void* data, int size);
+//NOTE: The naming conventions here are fucking terrible
 
-void serializeStatistics(void** bufferHead, Statistics* stats);
-void deserializeStatistics(void** bufferHead, Statistics* stats);
+//BUGFIX: There's really no way to escape this :(
+void serializePacket(SerialPacketBase* packet, void* data);
+void deserializePacket(SerialPacketBase* packet, void* data);
+
+//raw memcpy
+void serializeCopy(void** bufferHead, void* data, int size);
+void deserializeCopy(void** bufferHead, void* data, int size);
+
+void serializeCopyStatistics(void** bufferHead, Statistics* stats);
+void deserializeCopyStatistics(void** bufferHead, Statistics* stats);
 
 #endif