[reitzensteinm]

How did you test with 1024 players - were they real? Often synthetic loads are very different to those caused by real players.

[sgolem]

Bots are run on a separate thread from the main game loop and I can configure them to have a particular amount of actions per tick or second - to simulate real player action frequency.

In my tests core game loop handles 1024 bots without issues, often running 5-20x of realtime.