On the note of the lag issues, how about issue instead of having tons of windmills' make stages of test gen's that can be crafted, of course the best one being bought still, but in the theory of windmills being a big issue, that could help, or even boost the solar panels to work more, something is better than those damn things. Also limit the height of a lot of the bases or entities that can be spawned in 1 area at a time, i dunno just thoughts.
But Silver is right, we have lost so many good people that it's becoming a bummer, we are also gaining a toxic gathering blowing through here at times all of a sudden now too.