Oh no, Animal, I never meant to imply that pawns are the problem. The problem right now is more of a hardware issue of the server becoming overloaded. As grenv said, its just that pawns do not contribute to the solution, becuase they are non-paying members. If a large portion of players online at one time are pawns, would not that mean that the majority of resources were be used at that time by non-paying members? I think that is more of where I was thinking.