I believe the spikes you get are when you go near a gang base (that isn't loaded) once it loads, you should be fine until the next time you connect, we did it this way to stop it loading on connect/login as some people was sitting at the login screen for over 2 minutes. We are looking at loading bases asynchronously to get rid of the issue either way, but I cant give a definitive timescale on when that will be done. Keep an eye on discord and the news forum of the forum, we will update you guys once we have found the issue with the lag.