I have 16GB too and have it installed on an SSD as well, plus performance tended to be shit from launch rather than after a while or something. Shouldn't they just completely cull from any kind of interaction, including instruments data, anything that happens say, some KM away from the given player, so it doesn't affect them? And maybe also do it for situations where you're indoor, you can't interact with what's happening outside so cull everything at a much closer distance (so you can still see close by shit from the windows as that's cool) and so on.
I have to wonder if this game would be better served as single player with instanced co-op/pvp based on missions/specific areas rather than an attempt at a full MMO-like thing, even Eve struggles with many players at once and resorts to both lag and slow motion play, I just don't see how an action based game like this with all the simulations and calculations can work with too many players but whatever, I'm mostly in it for Squadron 42 myself (hope DLC and custom missions will be possible on that for post-story play). Maybe at least make solo play an option like Elite does it though, but if that would alter game parameters too much not allow interplay between offline/online enabled characters at all, make it separate.
