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[DMCain]

It's not somethign that they can just fix. The capacity limits of the servers are set under the assumption that many people will be in many different areas (each area is handled by different machines in each server cluster). But if everyone dogpiles into one zone, that heavily stresses one part of the servers and can bring the whole thing down, or at least bring down the zone that's overpopulated.

This is something that's true of basically every mmo in the history of ever.

Nope. Can be fixed and managed with hardware and proper coding. Check out the server architecture for Eve On-Line, which IMO, is one of the best, most powerful and most stable game server I have ever played on.

In January of this year, Eve had over 3000 players in one solar system (aka - zone) for a massive fleet battle (some nut mis-clicked). Lets face it, any other MMO server out there would melt into a quivering pile of whiney goo when placed under that kind of load.