I love the new fortress map and the 60 player set up makes sense. The other maps however, perform terribly with 60 people running amok. The lag is painful and half of the time you're getting killed by a person patching around swinging wildly with melee classes or getting shot up by your allies. Please please please go back to 30 on the smaller maps!
Bigger is not always better, especially on the smaller maps. Once the lag and performance issues get handled, maybe then it would be ok. But right now it's simply not working.
I personally don't think there are any mechanics for different maps to host a different player amount yet, so it's very improbable that such a change would be coming.
I am not having any lag/performance issues on the large scale maps, even in the midst of mass warfare. Personally, I love the large scale warfare. It feels like true war when in the middle of an insane battlefield.
Specifically because it isn't, we don't have olipsis any longer. Different maps seem to be designed with different player cap, atm its impossible to set dynamic player caps depending on map, but I can definitely see that in the future.
i play from europe and have no lag. Lag is not dependent so much on your location, because there are no stationary servers for us to play on.
Good for you but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of people from this area of the world do experience lags.