Maybe Server Performance Actually Isn't the Problem

Two days ago, I went through a prep session. Took me a solid two hours - a fair bit of which was just talking in chat, but a 2 hour session nonetheless - of getting my Cutty Black set up exactly how I want it, with exact numbers of magazines in the lockers, the proper weapons in the racks, my several 1 SCU boxes for looting bunkers, and my Cyclone in the back for driving since I don't want to risk all of my work against a bunker turret. It felt really good going to bed that night, because I said to myself, "Tomorrow, I wake up in my hab and go to my ship and I can immediately start flying."

Yesterday (the day after my prep session), I logged on and tried to do a bunker. Server was pretty bad, and I didn't finish the bunker because one of the guys became invulnerable. Not a big deal, but it seemed risky to try again, so I just called it a night, my ship only marginally depleted.

Today (two days after my prep session), I logged on and found a 30 FPS server right away. I was elated. This was about to be a good session.

I bought a couple mags to just top off my resources, and was prepared for a several hour play session to go do bunkers and make some money from selling gear. I logged in, woke up in my hab, retrieved my ship, exited the hangar, and started to QT to my surface location. The QT drive turned my ship to face the station and plowed me straight into it, destroying my ship and everything on board.

Frustrating, but I thought I'd try again. I quickly re-outfitted my ship after waiting for the claim. I was on Everus, but I had gear on Lorville I needed, so I flew down to Lorville, landed, and equipped my armor set. I sat back down in the pilot seat, and I noticed there was a UEE security ship flying inside my hangar (it was one of those gigantic hangars). I chuckled, lifted off, and flew forwards slightly (I didn't even exit the hangar), and my ship exploded a second time for no reason.

I respawned at Everus, very frustrated by now, and thought, "Well, at least all of my gear is at Lorville, since my ship exploded there. I'll just fly down and grab it really quick." I pulled my Pisces from the ASOP terminal, went to my ship, and briefly thought to myself, "You know, it would be kind of amusing if I exploded as I exited the hangar right now." But of course, it's a 30 FPS server, so I opened the hangar doors, waited a minute, and then flew out...

And I exploded for a 3rd time in 30 mins of doing precisely nothing. I was done at that point. Thankfully a kind soul let me hop on their redeemer and gun for them, so I could still enjoy something that didn't cost me.

All that to say, all of this occurred on a 30 FPS server, with 15 people on it. I understand the issue with server performance currently, and generally I agree that most of our issues are problems with server performance, but here was a high performing server (literally as good as it can get) suffering from the same problems low performance servers had. I couldn't even do the thing I wanted to do because of how bad it was.