THANK YOU!
The speed increase took a long time to finish, and there was at least one person who hinted that he didn't think it was worth the bother (it wasn't PY).
The 2000 robot limit isn't hard to get rid of on the surface. The problem is that the fact that there are 2000 robots in the array is hard coded in at places, so I have to go through and manually find every instance of that sort of thing.