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That's not the main part.  This one is:
https://fluxbb.org/resources/mods/spambarrier/
- Ability to control registrations and connections by querying the StopForumSpam database
- Ability to control registrations and connections with DNSBL servers

Not sure if it'll work in this case, but worth giving a try IMO.  Currently more topics on first page of main forum are spam than there is real content.

They all aren't die at the same time (w/ broken heart or smth)?

Currently I think that's the case.  With your proposition it's enough that one gen fuck ups and the town is gone.  We have ~140 people playing in the peak.  Early morning Europe/middle of the night US it drops down to ~30.  They're still split across 2-3 servers.  Some are in Eve runs.  So there are few people in a town.  If all of them are noobs that don't know why and how to compost, they'll just starve there.  If they are lucky and do not starve, griefer logs in and kills them.

But your proposition would have exactly that effect.  It takes 10-15 gens to build a town.  If you have a skill and a bit of luck it takes 30 minutes to kill it.  Banning Eve spawns there wouldn't cause mass of new towns to pop up.  The effect would be that there wouldn't be even single viable town most of the time.  And a lot of less players.

That's strange, never seen that, except in old towns.

Bow, arrow, RMB may be good workaround

I was referring to this:

A lot of people miss those times.  Solution to you problem it trivial: baby suicide 3-4 times.  With esc+%  takes 30 seconds.  Or switch to different server, where there are no towns.

Why you want to prevent people that like to play in towns from doing so?

Yep.

Not necessarly.  The most likely cause for me is database access.  I haven't looked at the server code, but KissDB is not thread safe, so either server is single threaded or you must serialize db access somewhere.  If three requests from different clients come at the same time and each takes, say 50 ms to handle, then first client will see latency of 50ms+his network RTT, second one 100ms+RTT, thrid one 150ms+RTT.  For somebody in Europe total request RTT will be 300-350ms.

Try to log timestamps of request/response pairs in server code.  Just make sure that socket reader is on separate thread, otherwise you'll get very imprecise results.  I.e. if you read the message, handle it and write respone in 100ms, and then handle another one also in 100ms, the latency for second one may be 101ms (if the request just come) or 199 ms (if it arrived immediately after you started handling the first one).

Not likely.  From what I've seen during last game I estimate total latency to peak in 500-1000ms range.  They would get compaints from many many customers if their network or disk lag would be that bad.   Even websites would feel sluggish - usually it's not one read per page but like 50+ various resources (html, css, js, images, etc.).

If you want some more help with this, please contact me privately.  I've been working on both games and soft real-time systems in the past.  So troubleshooting this kinds of problems and getting systems to perform an order of magniture or two faster is bread and butter for me.

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^^ YAHG as good as always.

Yep, this won't go away.  But we can fingerprint Satan bot now pretty easily.