Hello all. I'll make the question very straight forward.

I am a long time player of Neverwinter Nights Persistent Worlds. I'm a community member of one that's still going with between 20 and 30 players still on a good day.

Everything that I've seen of this game makes me think it was designed with multiplayer experiences in mind, and with a bit of modding I believe a lot of paradoxes could be solved to make this support a large server population, but therein lies the question.

I understand that the player population is limited to 4+1, at the moment, but are there any known projects in the works for making large server populations possible?

I'm dreaming of an enormous city map double the size of Fort Joy housing 40 or so players, with areas above, below, and without for 'quests'. How possible does this seem?

A follow-up, turn based combat is a fundamental principle of the game, but do you varied modders believe it is at all possible to add a turn timer via mods?