Well there is good news and bad news, good news there are people with 'lag monsters' that we can automatically ban/kick now, the bad news is that they are only responsible for a moderate portion of total lag.

The rest is death by a thousand cuts, every farm, every hopper, every little machine adds up to quite a lot over the course of all these players and all this time.

This above all else is why sharding and contraptions, as well as tweaks to remove the necessity of botting/autofarms in the economy are the only way to see long term gains.

Thanks to todays changes to crop growth AFKING farms with auto harvesting contraptions based on pistons/water is now a total waste of server resources, one harvest a day using a single piston run and then running a player down the middle will serve the same purpose for hugely less lag.

If I find people idling at the farms with the new 12 hour growth rules I might start handing out 24 hour bans until people get the message.