Title says it all. Does this have anything to do with the recent change of leadership at the top of Darkpaw.
I doubt it very much, Jchan is an excellent technician & coder I doubt there are many if any who have a better understanding of the EQ system. Pure conjecture here but I would say it possibly has more to do with a large population of players & perhaps too many groups are employing mass-kiting or mass-pulling techniques causing too much of a performance hit to the server. FV is a heavily populated server too but I don't think they are employing the same group xp techniques or if they are, they aren't doing so to the same degree. I do sympathise, I played on AB for a long time & that server had game crippling issues on & off for years.