Community & Growth Guides
Find players, keep them and grow your server.
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Community & Growth Guides
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How to Promote Your Game Server and Find Players
The in-game server list will not bring you players. Build your own presence with a Discord and website, list on server ranking sites, and post where the game's community gathers, while staying inside the publisher's rules.
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How to Promote Your Conan Exiles Server
Get players onto your Conan Exiles server: the browser filters players use, a clear server name and Discord, server listing sites, and the Funcom forum and subreddit where Conan players look for servers.
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How to Promote Your ARK: Survival Evolved Server
Get players onto your ARK: Survival Evolved server: a session name people can search for, a Discord to send them to, server tracking and voting sites, and the forums and subreddits where ARK players look for servers.
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Tips for Streaming Your Gameplay and Building an Audience
Streaming your game server is a good way to grow both a following and your community. These seven tips cover engaging your chat, planning, sponsorships, consistency and staying positive.
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How to Make Your Game Server Pay for Itself
Many server owners turn a monthly cost into a hobby that covers its own bills, or earns a little extra. Here are the main ways to monetise a game server, and the rules to check first.
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How to Keep Your Game Server Players Active and Engaged
Growing a player base is only half the job. These five habits help you keep the players you have: be present, involve your community, hold events, stay fair and deal with toxic behaviour quickly.
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How to Keep Your Game Server Fresh Between Updates
Players burn through new game content far faster than developers can make it. Use mods, community votes, events and planned wipes to keep your server interesting between patches.
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How to Build a Thriving Game Server Community: 9 Steps
Finding players is the hardest part of running a game server. These nine steps cover how to prepare, where to advertise, and how to turn a handful of players into a community that lasts.