I agree, I feel like skeppy should do his events on other servers rather than having people who actually want to play kit, survival, and skyblock suffer because of the amount of server lag due to the large amount of players.
If I am being honest, I have no idea if the afk players affects the lag on kit and other servers but today when I went on there were 100+ people in every hub and hub-5 had 300+ people in it which surely causes some of the lag.
I feel like skeppy should just post on his twitter the ip for a different server where he can host events without causing lag for the players on invaded because people who actually want to play are getting extreme amounts of lag and frequently "timing out". The lag has been horrible recently and I think that is definitely partly because of the large amount of afk players. Today there was 100 people in queue for UHC, 150 in queue for kit, and 450 in queue for event-a which is like 700 players afk which is probably the reason the lag has been so bad lately.