I've been trying to track down the source of the lag spikes. I recently
added some specific lag-tracking code. Preliminary results over the past
couple of days indicate that it might be due to some players storing
large amounts of messages on their characters.

At some point in the future, I'm probably going to have to add a
message-pruning system for people that are trying to keep a lot of
messages on their character. Unfortunately, Imperian doesn't have the
resources to run a message archival system.

For the time being, if you have much more than a hundred messages stored
on your character, please delete most of them. Some of you have more
than 10,000 messages stored for your character right now, and that's
definitely going to slow down Imperian every time something accesses the
message system.

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