So recently I had to do a clean install of windows again, and decided to pop along to the MG server as it was populated.

I knew I would have some downloading to do, so I set it going, and came back 2-3 minutes later, and was rather worried to see very little progress had been done. It took probably 10 minutes for everything to download

If it were another server, I would have quite happily just left the server and not bothered playing. So I have to wonder if too many items on the server are hurting the new players coming in, with them not wanting to sit through the downloads. Maybe its best to consider cutting out those people aren't actually using, in the hopes people will stick through a quicker download.