The techies have searched through the system gobbledygook and located some critters that are chewing up MASSIVE amounts of CPU cycles. I'll be speaking with the owner of the critters today and getting them looked at. Hopefully this will have a marked improvement on the system response time.

(The reason this lag wasn't showing up in The Fallen is because no one is even CLOSE to high enough to hunt them yet, so no critters were being generated.)