>Sacer actually mentioned something along these lines here
>several moons ago. In effect he spoke of limiting the amount
>of foes a single PC could engage during a PK.

Good memory, because that was a long, long time ago. My motivation for attacking that project wasn't about limiting large groups so much as encouraging large group on group combat. Although I think it's cool to have two groups of eight go at it, there's little motivation for that to happen if all eight guys in the defending group are going to hit your tank. So if it could be automatically spread out by the code (your group leader could define your formation for example and then group vs group code would determine who's fighting who) not everything would fall on the tank.

Of course this is all speculative. The problem is that even if the staff thought that was a cool idea, it has significant impact on how the combat code is written and without a promise for payoff.