actually, i am very serious. shared xp caused lvling to ocur much faster than "normal" in what i will call abnormally high rates

to keep players interested, they began to release new crappy/broken content and event ships. all of which add to the massive data the servers have to process each game. where there were only maybe 20 different ship variants in a battle (each with 16 sprite directions) the game now must load possibly two or three times that (again multiply by the 16 or so sprite pictures and ship datas the game must load)

so, shared xp is not the direct cause of stability issues, it is the driving force, and thus the root of just about all of the problems of NF, not just the consiterable lack of skill of the player base.