I’m not sure you want my experiences, because it seems you’re a PVP player, and I’m a PVE-C and PVE player. I’ll share them anyway, they might be of use to someone :wink:

I’ve tried several private servers, but I’ve only stayed for a while on two of them. The rest I tried, but didn’t like, because of the settings and/or the rules. For example, one server I tried had the sprinting cost set to 0, so you could literally sprint indefinitely. Another had a ridiculous harvest multiplier of 10x. These things kill the game for me, so I don’t play on those servers.

The two servers where I’ve actually played for some time were both positive experiences.

One was on a server where, if I’m remembering correctly, @Ramtex was the admin. It was a chill and friendly community. @Ramtex is insanely good at building, and he put those skills to good use, adding content to the server that everyone could have fun with.

Sadly, I realized after a while that I couldn’t continue playing there, because the server was in a different region and my ping was always 300 or more, which made the game unplayable for me. That was not the fault of the admin in any way. I knew the server was in Oceania, and I knew my ping would be high, but I had never tried playing with such a high ping before, so I didn’t know how bad the game would be :slight_smile:

The second was a server where I spent much longer, and the admin was @Larathiel. I had tons of fun on that server. Again, great community and a great admin. He was always willing to help and, with a game like Conan Exiles, a lot of help might be necessary to deal with problems like the purge not spawning correctly or bugging out :wink:

Eventually, Siptah early access started and I didn’t want to miss a single day of that, so I stopped playing on the private server. Again, no fault of the admin at all. It’s just that every time an update comes out, private servers have to deal with the mods not needing an update or not working correctly. That’s not something admins – or even modders – can solve.

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