Post: #4

The average registered statistically in the past is between 300-700 clients playing simultaneously for the most popular sphere shards if my memory serves, no matter wich version running, things haven't changed internally to decrease the number. Sphere is supposed to handle around 1000 incoming connections if that answer your question. The low activity nowadays for live shards is not related to the capacity and power of the emulator, it's just because lot of people abandoned the UO scene and that goes for sphere admins and players. Of course we don't know of anyone with a large player base using nightly builds yet but I don't think that any of the new implementations by Cube are changing anything related to network behaviour so we have no theory against the stability of these builds.

You can start by telling us your specs and then you will get your second answer.