The server option for CE are crappy to say the least. In early access everything was peachy.
When the game opened you could not get on a server for hours or days.
So we got a private server. That lasted 3 months, hackers, and kids, and drama oh my!
Since we like the private servers, so we tried a few. For some reason sysops can stop medling with the live server. Last one we were on I worked for 10 days to get one named armorer.
The next day the owners rolled the server back 3 days, making my 11 named total down to 7, and not the ONE I wanted.
So now we are back on an official server. After doing the boring meteors for a week, we got two greater rock noses. Until some nice Japanese folk ran king scorpion 5 miles to kill my two rock beasts. Well I got a key from the dead scorp, cant use it, too low a level at 50.
Now some kids have built right where the major iron deposits are, and they are to stubor take it down.
Great game Funcom, crappy players