Interesting, perhaps it is possible that it will work in a more P2P fashion with more isolated "instance" type servers for the combat and communal servers for t

Interesting, perhaps it is possible that it will work in a more P2P fashion with more isolated "instance" type servers for the combat and communal servers for trading etc. Similar to guildwars. All of the twitch-reaction type MMOs I have tried have tended to be fraught with lag problems, the scaling issues if you have to run a single game world where sub 100ms response times are required and you have 10K+ people connected at any given time must be quite something.