The server has to calculate the position of every convex shape against the position of any proximity-detonated targets. Most vanilla ships had a hitbox wrapped around the entire model that, while not actually used in contact collisions, determined the maximum boundaries of the model in a single convex form. I'm assuming this outer bounding box is used for calculations on when to trigger a proximity charge - so that one shape, rather then the various internal shapes, become what the server needs to calculate. Many older custom hitboxes did not have such a shrinkwrap bounding box around it, which might have seriously impacted performance. Again - there's no telling if, and how much, a performance gain there'll be until we test the server under load.
It was a lot of work to redo all the custom hitboxes, but considering the inaccuracies in them, it had to be done anyway.
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