Dear devs and admins:

[Jack_Henderson]

It would be a good idea to note which fleets cause lag. IE which types of ships are involved in the heavy lag generating events. This can then be used to identify the specific ships that have a tendency to create high lag. I got a fair idea which ones are the most problematic (the Legate and the Zoner jug topping the list) but it would help to note which are the worst.

Will do so next time I see a siege. But from my experience so far, the Hessian and the Sair ones rank high. But that is likely biased because I have hardly seen other faction caps in masses in sieges.

The issue is not playerbases, but the HUGE excess of capital ships in the game. If we're going to snip something, let's start there:
- All pirate factions restricted to cruisers and below. Poorly supplied pirate factions not even a cruiser.
- All house corporate factions, civvy stuff only.
- All unaffiliated factions (Zoner, BHG, IMG, GMG and other non-house lawful factions) limited to cruiser and below.
- Restrict the amount of battleships house navies may field by making those one per official player faction (meaning you -can- have more of them, just need more player factions on the ID. Also means you have to have a group of players working together and generating activity, to be able to field one).
Then make their main guns and shields significantly more powerful (the ones that drive away cruisers but are pointless against snubs) and the problem is largely solved.

I like the way the problem is approached. It's something that actually can be done. All points except the last one will also be rather easy to implement. I mean, IMG lost the Battleship in the last version and there was no really bad QQ about it.

I like the idea that the Cruiser becomes the main tool for most factions.

However, if the Cruiser is meant to become the "main tool" of many factions, they need some buff against snubs. Cruisers (except the small, agile ones, e.g. the CR one) die much too easily against nova bombers.

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