Dear devs and admins:

[Prysin]

Actually, I think Daedric is right, albeit slightly snarky. (Which is fine, it's Spazzy after all.)

Anyone remember the days of the massive faction battles? Where we'd have the BHG|Core vs Order battles, where'd there'd be 20 ships in a single system all pewing at each other? WHILE everyone else was still on the server - that's the key thing. You get 100 players out in all the systems spread across Sirius, and then concentrate 20 additional people in one system shooting at them, server stability goes into the toilet.

Which is odd - because we were possible, without any issue, to have 50 people in about 3 systems shooting the heck out of each other and not have ANY issues whatsoever. (Thinking back to the special events I ran.)

I know what it is - Freelancer doesn't like having lots of players! Seriously though - there has to be some certain number that once it's reached for universe population, and then you concentrate 10 people in one system pewing - that's where the problem lies. Finding that number - meh - that's not what I do. <Summon code monkeys!>

aye, good old Gamma raids; 25 OC caps n snubs duke it out against whoever can actually log a corsair cap...

Minor raids; 10 threshers enter, 30 osirises undocks from ISIS (yup, that happened once, i was there, BHG Lost all their ships, Order lost some 20 or so Ossies before half of them reengaged)

PoB is infact a major "lag" inducer. As i see it, there is but three solutions
A; remove PoB, sell JD/Cloaks and Docking modules at ridiculous prices at guard stations
B; get a new server box with better hardware
C; make attackers do more damage to shielded base, just 2% more damage is enough to make a base siege be over really fast

Option A is way extreme, but its an option non-the-less, B is tricky too, we pay outta our own pockets, and this server litterally runs on goodwill alone.
C is probably the best answer, but that will leave individuals with the grand delusion that "bases should be possible to supply and maintain alone" crying.... Bases without a massive support network would fail, but hey. This game should be about teamwork anyway, just too damn sad to see so many "loners" run around on the server, silently grinding money/kills or whatever to get a few nice things for themselves.

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