In the orginal game it took 133 people in one empire to pop lock it. In theory each pop lock had somewhere between 133 and 499 people. The 133 number derived by the actual number of people it took to start the number of positions counter to start its countdown from 100. to pop lock for the one empire. 266 peeps from nc - vs pops.
There were times that there were 4 pop locked planets / conts at one time with scattered fighting on the remaining 6 conts. That was on the Emerald Server. I'm told there were more people who played at the start of the game but I did not start playing till the beginning of 2004.
There are a lot more people playing FPS games now then there was back in the day. So I do not think there will be any problem with sluggish fights.
And there wwere three global servers at one time - Euro, Eastern USA and Western USA - werner - markov - emerld.
I could remember a lot of peeps being pissed off at ULTRA, a TR alliance on emerld, when we pop locked a planet or two on a weekend. The ULTRA team speak server had over 300 players on it at one time at one point.
And the other two global servers had large pops as well. Played both of them when it was slow on emerald. It was awesome then with the numbers we had, and it wil blow our minds away with the numbers we will get in todays gaming world.
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"There is NO "I" in Teamwork"
DOG SLOGAN - "It's not the size of the DOG in a fight, it's the size of the fight in the DOG"
DOG BATTLE CRY - " Cry 'Havoc,' and Let Slip The DOG's OF War. "
And Hamma I see the VS   and the NC  have infiltrated your board. So the TR  will have to kill them all and make them the yellow bastards they are 
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