Just coming in to this fine mess.
https://www.project-epoch.net/news/update-from-the-epoch-team/
>This was a naive blunder on our part as we didn’t predict a bottleneck to show up after a few hundred extra players where the database begins to choke.
What are they saying here? Their database is so unoptimized it can't handle couple more hundred people connecting? Ain't CPU supposed to be a bottleneck?

Also getting in bed with Ascension? Uhh...

Check out Hour of Twilight if you don't know about it yet. Seems to be more solid than many other pservers.