[Answered] rust server

[kimetsu]

why is the rust server dead, i played it like around 2 months ago and it had full players and I checked recently and the server has like 1/250 people now. Is there anyway to promote it or get the people back on it because that server was pretty fun.

[carrollton]

kimetsu i 100% agree

[gween]

A month or two ago, like many other servers, our server was removed from the server browsing page due to empty servers taking up a large portion of the listings. This caused players who weren't able to find our server go to other servers, which made us lose our regulars. FacePunch has used a temporary "solution" that automatically disables being able to see empty servers. We have plans to revamp the server (soon™), keep your eyes peeled.

[All Ts]

Rust similar to a lot of other games is extremely difficult to populate due to variance from server to server. The other dilemma is that when noone is on a server noone wants to get on which just creates a really apathetic feedback loop. It is shitty what happened though, cause typically when these servers start to catch a wave you can actually keep it going for a decent amount of time & build a community up from it given your staff and player base aren't complete toxic cunts to deal with. 

[Creten]

46 minutes ago, gween said:

A month or two ago, like many other servers, our server was removed from the server browsing page due to empty servers taking up a large portion of the listings. This caused players who weren't able to find our server go to other servers, which made us lose our regulars. FacePunch has used a temporary "solution" that automatically disables being able to see empty servers. We have plans to revamp the server (soon™), keep your eyes peeled.

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43 minutes ago, All Ts said:

Rust similar to a lot of other games is extremely difficult to populate due to variance from server to server. The other dilemma is that when noone is on a server noone wants to get on which just creates a really apathetic feedback loop. It is shitty what happened though, cause typically when these servers start to catch a wave you can actually keep it going for a decent amount of time & build a community up from it given your staff and player base aren't complete toxic cunts to deal with. 

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I'm glad to see that someone joined the forums just to ask this, it gives me a little more hope. To add onto what these two said, most players do not stick to the same server every single wipe. If they don't get a decent wipe one week its basically a 50/50 if they play again. We're working on the problems that were going on while the server was populated and will most likely end up changing the server quite a bit before Summer starts rolling around. Even with the server doing not so good, the staff working behind the scenes are doing their best and working diligently to try and get the server in good shape before Summer starts. We're hoping that when Summer starts we will see a wave of new players and eventually end up building back up to our server being full pop again. It may take some time but I'm hoping that it will all be worth it in the end. If you want to help revive the server to its past population and glory, please consider joining our Rust Discord. When Summer comes around we plan on building up pop like we did when the server first came out. The server came out during most of everyone's Christmas break. This allowed a lot of peoples free time to be used on the Rust server. It slowly built population overtime; we're hoping for history to repeat itself to a certain extent. Like Gween said, expect some major changes to the server soon.

[Dom]

There’s a group of us that usually plays on wipe day (thursday) and the weekend. The more people there are to help us seed the higher the chance we get back to having a stable population : )

[oSen]

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