Dear devs and admins:

[Govedo13]

*shrug* Probably because people desperately wanted these battlebricks, and the consequences to server load were not known until some 20 of them got together in pewage.

I was participant in many brawls with more then 20 caps and 20-30 snubs in Alpha/Gamma/Leeds/Texas etc in 4.85 with full server that never crashed since the german paid host was introduced. The same Datacenter started to crash while 2 servers were on at the same time- the main one full with 200 people and the Kusari/Gallic one with 30-40 caps and around 80 people shooting each other- it was summer '10 same server- a lot more load then any base siege and no problems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peo7nhZ2IoA
4.86 have problem with that not the server itself. I personally prefer battleships restricted but damn powerful but it have nothing to do with the sever bugs obviously. It would be nice enough not to blame caps and bases etc for the crashes because they are not the reason. Some of the 4.86 changes are the reason- and I guess some ship changes.

1. "Splitting" the Sirius, the idea of Ursus and Agmen of Eladesor.
2. Removal of Conn (which is definetely not going to happen, it's an alternate solution)

1 was done but it didn't worked well with the character data exchange between the 2 servers. Rewriting of the FLserver.exe can change it but it is damn hard task and none is capable to do it except Cannon. Discovery just need more Devs that can code stuff and such people just does not work for free, we have more then enough for 10 years old game anyway so even half solutions that work would be good enough.
2 wont change much.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)