At moment every time the server hits 15 + players there starts to be some lag, sometimes it's intermitten yellow, others it's yellow for a bit, then red then back to yellow, etc, etc.
It's been getting laggy like this for several people at different times, sometimes everyone seems to be getting it other times it's only a few.
As for the BS's spinning perhaps an answer would be seeing if we can stop low level NPCs from ramming player ships, they only seem to do it when they can't scratch the shield.
You get alot of them near planets so it can get annoying and worrying especially if your moving around, I'd hate to be rammed by a hawk or sometime and hit the blasted planet.