[Coda]

The site wasn't locking up due to the game. It was locking up due to other stuff happening on the server -- stuff we don't actually care about but was running by default. I turned off all of the stuff we weren't using. Turns out that running stats on a site this active can consume a lot of resources! The changes to the game were a just-in-case measure intended to prove that it wasn't the game that was causing the trouble in the first place.