Recently I have experienced the maximum amount of people restriction penalty.

I see no reason why you would not take more than 8 people to raid a fortress, or kill some trolls.

I know they are there for a reason (Maybe because scaling would go wack, or scaling would fail)

But I would like to see some quests where you can bring as many people you want.

I believe it's because of lagability.

DMs tend to do it, but minimize the server so that it is able to run.

For what it's worth, a polite message to a DM will most likely relieve you of the restriction, and chances are if you @re going on a quest with more than the lenient maximum, you should probably somehow be additionally challenged by a DM anyways.

Boy oh boy, some interesting suggestions by TNVW and Dr Dragon these last few days.

While there would be some scaling issues associated with really large teams, the biggest issue is lag. 8 seems to be a magic number for how many players can be in a party before the lag ramps up.

You can ask a DM to raise the cap by 1 or 2, and if you ask really nice we might do it.

As an aside, when you're in large DM events involving more than 8 to 10 players, we ask that you form multiple parties of no more than 8, and let the DMs know who the leader of each party is for communication/reward purposes.