they are a cheap way to get rid of small and medium asteroids. Useless against huge asteroids.

When you blow up asteroids, they become several chunks, this slows the game down to 47 fps for good computers and servers down to a solid 30 UPS.

Many players are unable to connect and several seem to run 5 ups/fps even in Nauvis when we started this trip.

Server UPS measured using the assembler ...