it wasnt laggy for me it loaded up pretty fast but the no NPC problem is in the ascent core ive been doing some looking into and allot of people where havng problems with some of the newer revisions
it wont even let me spawn anything it says invalid id but its not
im updating the DB and ascent core again to see if it fixes it, for the time being i got the last revision that was running good on here to put back up so the server will be running again with NPCs, im putting the old one back up now