Instancing

[Prod]

Any hope of getting this in the near future? At the moment we can not make RTS games because OGRE can not display the necessary amount of entities in realtime.

[Samuel]

Not sure if you'll get a reply from the team on this one because they generally don't talk about future features.
Right now Purebasic is using a version of Ogre 1.8, but once/if it's updated to Ogre 2+ there should be a major speed boost.
The way Ogre 2+ handles the data is much more efficient compared to the older versions. The requirements are higher, but it should be several times faster compared to what we have now.

[Prod]

Excellent. Some 3x faster should be enough.
This is a fascinating weakness of 3d technology. We can have millions of polygons per frame, but only a few hundred objects. It is about time the graphicscard makers redesign everything from scratch. Never good to be stuck with just patching the same old stuff for decades.

[Bananenfreak]

You can use staticgeometry for the static entities and the level Design.
Poorly, For animated or moveable Entities there is no instancing (yet).
Just Start your project. I've encountered a Problem with too many tris in One picture... Round about 4 to 5 million tris and the fly Drops to 18.