We're experiencing some server lag issues that are being worked on. If anyone experiences extremely log load times (>1-2 minutes) or server disconnects, or bots jumping all over the place, those are symptoms of the problem.

The largest hit sectors are the Training sectors, so please bear with us as we try to fix the problem.

Ok, we think we fixed this, at least with the Training Sectors.

Were the tridents removed because of this?

No, they were removed earlier because of the warping-to-nowhere issue you posted on Bugs. They did need to be removed because of this, too, so it's just as well. We're not yet sure why, but something with the capship pathfinding hosed the training sectors.

The tridents will be back when we figure it all out.

Cool.

things are still a tad slow at times.

Wow, I certainly picked a bad time to come back to the game, haha.

This doesn't happen often, and the devs are all over it. Considering the number of things added from the Soon list, things went pretty smoothly.