Well you don't need to have a MIT degree to understand what's causing the problem. It started right when the ranking system appeared.
Before that, we played normally without this lag, with no client limitation, with auto hunting on, with the normal number of mobs, and anything else you guys disabled to do your tests.
And now you removed the two new xp areas (even if these were just for 1h/day each), and you add that stupid queue system? Seriously??? OMG!!!
The only think you didn't removed, to check if that's the problem, is the OBVIOUS! The ranking system.
I almost feel like you guyz are protecting it and try to blame something else for the lag. Why is that so important to you?
It's completelly useless, and doesn't offer anything to the players, but only THIS STUPID LAG!
Remove that and everything will be fine!
Come on, refute me. Show me i'm wrong, please!
(BTW, WTS my queue 100kk. If anyone is interested pm me here.)