  One of the major limitations of microlensing observations toward the Large
Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the low rate of event detection. What can be done to
improve this rate? Is it better to invest telescope time in more frequent
observations of the inner high surface-brightness fields, or in covering new,
less populated outer fields? How would a factor 2 improvement in CCD
sensitivity affect the detection efficiency? Would a series of major (factor
2--4) upgrades in telescope aperture, seeing, sky brightness, camera size, and
detector efficiency increase the event rate by a huge factor, or only
marginally? I develop a simplified framework to address these questions. With
observational resources fixed at the level of the MACHO and EROS experiments,
the biggest improvement (factor ~2) would come by reducing the time spent on
the inner ~25 deg^2 and applying it to the outer ~100 deg^2. By combining this
change with the characteristics of a good medium-size telescope (2.5 m mirror,
1" point spread function, thinned CCD chips, 1 deg^2 camera, and dark sky), it
should be possible to increase the detection of LMC events to more than 100 per
year (assuming current estimates of the optical depth apply to the entire LMC).
