50 players! Imagine if they all entered the same battle. That would be nightmarishly boring.
Yeah, I loved NWN & NWN2 and the online persistent worlds, but those were real-time, so the only issue with having a dozen or more people joining the same battle was the lag. BG3 being strictly turn-based would mean that having any more than 8 people join a battle could result in 4 minute rounds (assuming that each player spends 30 seconds trying to decide where to move, what to attack, what spell to cast, etc.). In my experience most D&D combats last 3-4 rounds. I don't know if I would want to spend 16 minutes in a single combat (this ofcourse is not accounting for the fact that having more people would likely mean less combat rounds).
