Dear devs and admins:

[Jinx]

as outlined before - the cause of lag is suspected to be a result of various factors:

- complexity of the hitboxes ( not the models! )
- server tracked objects ( that includes projectiles )

the first one - the hitbox complexity comes into effect upon contact/interaction/collision. - the more complex the hitbox the more we suspect it can destabilize the enviroment

the reason why battleships are kind of singled out here is not based on an urge to enforce any wannebe lore about rare battleships. - it is a very rational reason.

battleships have the most complex hitboxes and are generally the largest mobile objects - and they usually also create the most mobile objects due to having the most guns.

as said before - those are suspiciouns - which may prove to be wrong though. in the past - we already experienced snub furballs with only like 6-8 ships that caused massive lag, too - and we also had huge fleet battles with many capital ships and snubs with minimal lag.

atm one thing is more or less certain - and that is the single threaded nature of the engine - which gets exponentially busy with increasing complexity of calculations - but as said before - that cause cannot be fixed - at this time.


we do have brainstormed about various ideas to track the real problem(s) and solve them as good as we can though without taking too much away from how we are used to the game.

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