Everything is going the right way but I agree, there is no rush with releasing. Better add atleast basic content like mounts, basic magic and thievery, polish the game, fix bugs and terrain problems in some parts of the world.
29% is not much cpu consumption. Can you send pc specs?
I don't know how to help to be honest, game is not that optimized as it should be plus maybe your pc is a bit too old. I dunno.
And it will generate theoretically the same problem for both sides that there are desyncs on NA serv for EU and EU for NA. But I get your point anyway.
I can imagine the new problems will generate such idea if they potentially split the community.
"Game is dead" (again) for two different servers, "I can't go to other continent cause Im having lags there" for spliting servers between ingame continents. It looks good only on paper ;)
Start the Task Manager. Press the buttons Ctrl, Alt and Delete all at the same time. This will show a screen with several options.
Choose "Start Task Manager." This will open the Task Manager Program window.
Click the "Performance" tab. In this screen, the first box shows the percentage of CPU usage