Quote Originally Posted by normalforce View Post
Curving or augmenting the area will help, you are not looking at the problem rationally to understand that. Retainers could be placed behind stalls if being freely placed is some sort of issue. It solves scalability and stability because the server isn't flooding your client with hundreds of retainers at once, as players and retainers a few sections away don't get sent.
But the server itself is still flooded with hundreds of retainers at once. So, no, unless they break it up into completely separate servers, it doesn't help.