Seriously - 260 people on a shard yet 500ms of server side latency with less than 5 server FPS. What is this madness? It's absolutely clear to see how server performance degrades over time due to accumulation of junk items and bricked ships all over the place, since the game has to constantly calculate physics for all those entities. Why are regular server restarts not a thing? Every time we have a major patch or hotfix that involves a server shutdown, we have great performance for few days or maybe even a week, and then we get back to the usual garbage performance. Why don't you do a server restart once a week at graveyard hours for EU and US? Just do a two hour maintenance on Monday or Friday and do a server cleanup and restart. Wipe all the dropped items and bricked ships so we can actually play with decent performance. Every single major MMO does regular server restarts in order to maintain server performance. Why does CIG think that SC should be exempt from this?