Source: photonengine.com (provides server networking and hosting for tens of millions of daily users on steam and other platforms). Source: over 2 years ago

With Steam you get 70% of the money you make from your game, and it costs $100 to put your game on the platform. But you get stuff like Steam Networking, VAC, Steam Achievements, etc. You might also get more sales if you put your game on Steam. With itch.io however, you get 100% of the money you make, and it's free to put your game on the platform. The problem is you will get less players than if you were to put... Source: over 2 years ago

Daily pop peak is 8-12 so far, feel free to check battlemetrics.com. Source: 7 months ago

The server browser on scum is a mess so battlemetrics.com is the best way to browse servers just sort by population or search for hardcore, vanilla, 10x loot whatever youre looking for. Source: over 1 year ago

Official is littered with cheaters in fact the publisher owner of snail games is known to own a cheater tribe called tea. Go tobattlemetrics.com and search u.s. Servers I recommend a fresh wipe of your server type. Search things like 1/ to get a cluster that just wiped. Source: over 1 year ago

Some handy websites are rustlabs.com and battlemetrics.com. Rustlabs acts as a wiki of sorts for the game and battlemetrics is a better way of finding and joining servers. Source: over 1 year ago

Sometimes a server just doesn't show up in the server list. You can try finding the server in just-wiped.net or battlemetrics.com there is a connect button in these websites that connects you to the server through your steam account. You could also find out if the server is really down from player count in the websites I mentioned. Source: almost 2 years ago