Alright, so, for my part, as someone who isn't a big shooter, it's always been fucky and random whether I'll hit my shots or not, so I don't have much to say on hitreg or whatever. However I'll say driving when the server is at 100+ players has become very difficult, and movement lag is annoying, especially around high-traffic areas, something I don't remember being a massive issue before.
Now, I like that there's a lot more people on, but the seemingly unending influx of new players who see the server in the DarkRP gamemode and join because we're at the top of the list worries me slightly. I don't think we should be trying to court DarkRP players, as a vast majority are expecting DarkRP type gameplay. I think we should be trying to get players from other PERP servers, and should be moving back to a different gamemode, or our own gamemode, for the sake of allowing a smaller, healthier influx of players. We don't want a huge influx of players who are looking for, and expecting a DarkRP-like experience.
I do not think moving gamemode will kill the server, as we went through a phase several years back of needing a queue server, that at times, had nearly 80 people in queue to join, and this went on for a couple years if I recall correctly. I think reintroducing the queue server and limiting the players at 100 is a good idea, and that doing so, alongside Fredy's further optimizations, will allow the server to perform much better.