That was the purpose of the user hash, which would direct all information regarding a single user through the same set of virtual nodes reliably, meaning that cache although distributed, for the purposes of a single player is not, meaning you avoid all of the nastiness regarding sharing the cache between nodes. But yes, having a cache at all is not necessary, and adds A LOT of complexity for arguably negligible gain. Sorry I'm a bit of a performance junky when it comes to software development. And it was a mistake to use the words distributed, cache, and simple in the same post as one another... or even same thread for that matter =0. Crap! I just did it again, disregard that.