Rocket, I doubt you will read this message but I sure hope you do. I can just feel the stress vibe from all of your posts. That's not healthy man! You stated your stance on server control. It is a good stance. Now, stick with it and brush off those who disagree or keep reiterating points that you have already made clear. Ignore them so you can focus on what is important for DayZ. I see you posting long-winded stuff because I think you are too nice of a guy and feel everyone has an opinion. They absolutely do but you need to pick your battles now that you have over a million people with opinions about all of your decisions. Now, on to some issues I saw you covered on: central server bottlenecking, server prioritization. If Bohemia is blocking your budget for hiring support staff/system admins and servers - I am very worried about the future of this project. There's gonna be a lot of pitchforking by the community, angry server owners, and massive delay on just about everything. Bohemia should be investing 99.999% of their resources into this project. Make it absolutely clear to them that those are your top priorities. Forget about hackers, bug fixes, and the standalone version for now. The central server should be able to handle the increasing load.. and be infinitely scalable. I know that's a daunting task but you seriously need to get some experienced experts on board that have done this shit before. Don't take this on as a new project. Don't let anyone try to scale this database if they have not done it before. Pay $1,000 an hour for the best in the business if you have to. Forgive me if I am wrong or made assumptions that are not true here. I own an online ad agency that pulls 100 million requests a month on 1TB of MySQL data and I just know how much of a pain in the ass scaling can be.