Retention tips for mid-rate servers in 2026

What keeps players past week two on mid-rate (XP 20-50x) without a donation treadmill? Things that worked for us: weekly mini-raids, transparent ban logs, and a public roadmap board.

Thanks for posting this - matching client/server protocol builds fixed it for us.

We hit the same issue after a module update.

Can you paste the exact engine commit hash?

Try a clean OTC profile before changing server code.

Thanks for posting this - matching client/server protocol builds fixed it for us.