Low player count per servers.

[Chief Tok-Tok]

I know there's people playing this game over 30k at times, but I can't seam seem to find many servers over 60 players... Maybe 3 or 4 and the rest are 30 players or so...

[KitsuneShiro]

Too many players leads to lag.

Battlemetrics site will let you sort by population

[Chief Tok-Tok]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Too many players leads to lag.

Battlemetrics site will let you sort by population

Yeah that's what I'm looking at, the in game browser doesn't even show anything half the time.

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by Chief Tok-Tok:

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Too many players leads to lag.

Battlemetrics site will let you sort by population

Yeah that's what I'm looking at, the in game browser doesn't even show anything half the time.

Cross reference player numbers with server numbers.... ~30k players, 38,473 servers.
Makes for low numbers across the board with small pockets of moderate numbers.

[Toooni]

Each one is hosting its own server instead of joining existing ones. Thats the reason for the low player count.

I already suggested to wildcard in the beginning --> Make dedicated servers no more for free. Let us buy a licence !

Result of a licence --> Server hosters can't offer the servers as cheap as at the moment --> not each kid will be able to make its own servers --> less servers --> more players per server

BTW: I'm owning 6 servers...and anyway i wanna see the licence :)

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by Toooni:

Each one is hosting its own server instead of joining existing ones. Thats the reason for the low player count.

I already suggested to wildcard in the beginning --> Make dedicated servers no more for free. Let us buy a licence !

Result of a licence --> Server hosters can't offer the servers as cheap as at the moment --> not each kid will be able to make its own servers --> less servers --> more players per server

BTW: I'm owning 6 servers...and anyway i wanna see the licence :)

I'm afraid I'd really have to disagree with this. Most of my multiplayer time in this game was on a private server for just myself and a few friends, and personally I much prefer it that way. I have no desire to play PvP and have everything wiped out every time I log, having to start from scratch every play session, and in PvE I much prefer having the whole map to ourselves and being able to build/gather resources/explore wherever and whenever we want.

On the general topic of the thread though - don't underestimate the number of players who play solo. Most of my game time has been on my own, so while I would count to the 'current player number' stat, I wouldn't appear in popular servers.

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by Toooni:

Result of a licence --> Playerbase is wiped out entirely over night because nobody likes the mod selections or the rates or the admins on these very select group of servers

[KitsuneShiro]

With so many options for settings and mods, most unofficial communities are very unique.

Plus some people prefer low population, especially for PvE. Lots of Nitrado 10 slot servers.

[Unicorn]

Alot are clusters, so they might be the same comunnity just on seperate maps with players jumping around, i know on our we have about 120ish on nights and weekends for the cluster, but thats spread with people bouncing around the 4 maps
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