Tested the limits this morning, and wanted to report back how it worked out :
1. 2 running 1-10 pioneers (different start times and waypoints)
2. 1 running silverspring wp
3. 2 running elven starting area (dfferent start times + waypoints)
4. 2 eggers rolling in different cities
5. 1 custom wp for dragonfang
Zero GM detections in about 3 hours of trying it out :
So 8! Hot

I had it cranked up on full settings, and my rig started dragging about client 4, so lowered them all to lowest setting and forced them into a lower resolution and it bumped right along. Can't imagine needing 8 for anything, but I wanted to test the water to see what was possible, and I'm very surprised. Incredibly fun just tabbing over to watch them all do their thing
One thing I wanted to ask here too as a precaution :
On your GM detection function lisa, will it need to be configured other than responses manually? I've got it set now with custom responses, but the rest I just plugged in for the most part. I did set it manually to GM detect=true. Also, would it be possible to manually set it to delay a response for a few seconds, so as to seem like it took a moment to write a response back to the GM (may already be, not terribly sure).
Otherwise, im amazed at how well it can handle clients and how well this morning went. Really appreciate the help this far lisa, ty ty

. Now to fine tune it to run what I need and make more custom wp's, and hopefully running say 4 at a time will be fairly safe given they all are on diff areas and unique waypoints. Thanks again!