Everything is pushed to Github. I think everything in the first post is in, except the Fire Ship tech, but I'll do that soon. Some costs are slightly different, but the first posts is pretty close to the current implementation.
So instead of a dev just checking if there is no malicious code you want to put him into the crossfire of the vocal and abusive community for signing the wrong mod? Given that it's outright impossible to implement so that it can't be sidestepped I suggest to give up the notion of this being a good idea.
Stan is correct. To see an effect even in shadow, you need parallax. Luckily the game uses the alpha channel of the normal map for parallax, so it's just a basic height map.