player.move()
 

It would be very nice if the move function were able to work on the player.

ex. some kind of NPC that warps you back to the beginning of a level.
function onPlayerTouchsMe() {
setani("bumper_warper",this.color_array);
disabledefmovement;
player.move(newx-player.x,newy-player.y,3,8);
}

function onPlayerMovementFinished() {
setani("idle","");
enabledefmovement;
}

as opposed to:

function onPlayerTouchsMe() {
player.x = newx;
player.y = newy;
setani("idle","");
}

wouldn't that just look so much smoother.
of course you can already do this clientside in a timeout, just not quite so nicely.

that can be easily scripted, using distance formula and loops would be one way.

Yes. Especially with GS2, since you can use parameters, it would be very easy to make, for example: movePlayer(dx, dy, time);

yea, but on a serverside script I mean.

Laziness should not be something to reward. There's already a way; find it.

I already did, but what the hell do you call vecx(), vecy() functions if not laziness. They could just be dir-1, dir-2. It just makes things make more sense. I ended up just doing scripting it, but I still say it would be nice if you could use the move function on players.