Of course anyone can open a server including me. But I won’t play on a server if I’m an admin.
On top of maintenance, advertising, managing people, dealing with reports and enforcement, I would also have the constant suspicion and accusation of the players that I am biased.
That’s not fun to me. I already work full-time, have a family, volunteer and have other hobbies and interests. I play Conan to unwind and be happy.
Why? I personally would just make sure I had the server rules in place. Any player has to accept them to join the server. And then I can use a mod like PIPPI to periodically check for nonsense going on and clear it. Takes hardly any time.
BUT, I do get you the moment a player has kids thrown into the mix. Nothing like a little two year old reaching up, ‘wanting attention’ and grabbing the keyboard mid-wipe. 
(have cheated a little and pulled in one fo the older ankle-biters to do cursory checks on how players have been building before I have to be involved so I can just enjoy the game playing.)
I set aside half an hour or so on a weekend when I can do some proper chastisement if necessary. My regular players don’t mess about so I only need to check on new players.
This is why
Oh That doesn’t bother me at all. Literally don’t care what they think.
I like playing the game. I also like seeing other players build so I got some servers so I don’t sit about solo. If they leave I miss them kinda, but I lose no sleep.
The Regulars have been on the servers for years. The newbies that don’t like it move on. If their build are nice then the builds stay.
My issue isn’t about my character or how people view me.
It’s regarding the very thing I see on every single private PvP server I have joined or know about.
There is always admin abuse. It may come in varying flavours and shades but it’s still there. Every. Single. Time.
So, my stance is not to play private servers.
It would be disingenuous of me to then make my own server and admin it. Nope.
Also, all the other reasons I mentioned. I don’t have more time to devote and frankly not interested in footing the cost.
Having a private server still doesn’t solve the issue of bombs being the way they are or how raiding is too easy on Officials.
I guess it depends on the Admin abuse definition meant from your side. Either way, playing solo works well too, and you can at least, should you really have to, swap into admin-mode and fix things or not. I know several Streamers that exclusively do Solo for your same reasons so I respect your choice.
The walls we build might as well be made of Doozer blocks in a land of Hungry Fraggles.
The walls that are a part of the permanent terrain are, well, permanent. Indestructible.
Build a base with as many indestructible sides as possible and then put it under a bubble forever.
The vast majority of durable bases are those that are basically inverted snow globes dangling from locations that are extremely well documented by now. This isn’t an exploit. It’s sound tactics. It’s using the building system, religion system, and terrain exactly as intended with no exploits.
There are other bases this one has seen that are very sploity. But this one will not linger on mesh and flight systems other than noting that a bug left in place for long enough will be considered a feature.
With the new siege weapons “I heard that battering rams are coming” it could be a viable option, make the bases more durable
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