Well, at the moment, I'm just looking at removing ALL coastal traffic. Friendly and enemy. The consist is nothing vital at all. Fishing boats mostly, some sampans, a few junks, etc. The non-major friendly merchants (French, Dutch, Australian) are gonna go as well. They have some rather pointless routes along the west coast to Pearl. Beyond that, some of the consists of the merchants are just odd. A netherland large coastal freighter going from the west coast to Pearl? That's a touch strange but okay
As I said before, it's hard to find a balance that pleases everyone without having ten different versions, all with minor changes. So, I'm just going to test out removing those two items which are major enough to hopefully see some decent performance gain. It can be further reduced of course, but I'll see how this works out and go from there.
I've had very little time today to work on anything, but I'll have something up by tommorow for testing and feedback.