TLI-Inferno: Did you read and try to understand my post? It seemed not.
To make it easy:
Old Hardware: 1 Core with 3,5Ghz: 100% Power 6 Years ago
actual Hardware: 1 Core with 2,7Ghz: 77% Power today
And additional many mor objects (BOB, more Systems, more Bases, ...) it is not enought power for 250 players.
Was this easy enought?
And one more question: Maybe i'm online to the wong tiomes, but i had never die point where the server was full so i can't login. So why are we talking about raising the maximum player online?
If there would be some days per month with more than 100 People online we could talk about a server with a maxed Single-Core-Power (should cost about 1500-2500€ inkl. backup and Windows-Server) but who will pay that? And what are we doing in 5 years, when the hardware is old and it is time for new hardware?
And as far as i know it is nearly impossible to make change the software to a multi-core-software...