Dear devs and admins:

[Agmen of Eladesor]

The problem is the grouping of so many ships all pewing. As I said, you don't understand what you're talking about.

We had the same issues when there were massive fleet battles; those, however, didn't/don't happen as much as base sieges do.

So while you are correct in that the software is somewhat unstable, you're inability to understand the subject at hand has led you to a rather ignorant conclusion. That is, that player bases are the cause of said instability, when in fact that are not.

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!>

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.