I have been looking myself, but honestly I’m thinking of starting one myself. I wanted to quit this game, but there just isn’t a better alternative on the market ATM. ARK is better from a cheating perspective, but still not great, but the theming is all wrong for me.
If I start a server it’s going to be Vanilla with Sprinkles: very slightly modded to address of the issues I’ve seen with the core game:
- Demolition Derby PvP (Current Phase. I’m almost done with the 1st mod (about 8hr in). I’m thinking my server would run bombs, arrows and orbs at about 1/10th siege strength–equating in a 2.5m raid time for a T1 shack and 26-30m raid time for a T3 shack (as opposed to 10m on official strength). Still debating what the best option for raid times would be. With a 30m raid time for a 2 layered T3 wall, I think 6 hours (official length) should still suffice, but if I reduced the siege damage more (raising the time to breach TTB even more, then I think it might make sense to do 24/7 raid). Still contemplating this.
- Unreliable, Unclear and/or Unreasonable building rules (Probably going to work on a land claim mod that limits the number of bases/total land mass of clan territory.)
- No reason to Raid Other than Loot/Personal Vendetta (thinking of having unique items that only 1 person/clan can have at a time that will be balanced, but worth having and holding onto), and/or implementing a scoring system to declare winners for a “Season”.
- Huge clan sizes, but no clan management system.
I’m already working on my first mod, which will give server owners granular control over bomb, arrow, and orb siege damage. All of the mods will be modular and usable by all private owners in discrete chunks.
Server isn’t ready yet, but if anyone might be interested in checking it out when it goes live, DM me and I’ll let you know when its ready. Sad truth is that most Private Servers don’t cater well to the PvP crowd and Public servers are too prone to cheats.
EDIT:
For those of you concerned about mods: I’m only using Pippi and Mods that I have made myself (so that I can maintain them for the life of the server and am not at the mercy of other modders maintaining their mods) and am planning a no-wipe policy.
Also. Server is live and is called “Better Conan”. Info: 69.169.52.137:28060. (Server Thread: Looking for Players! Brandon's Better Conan: A Better Alternative to Official Servers) I am slowly adding all Official PvP servers to the server transfer whitelist, so feel free to bring over your characters from officials! EDIT: Apparently server transfer whitelist is broken, so I can’t allow free transfers in -_-. In the meantime, I’m setting up a controlled system to allow peeps to transfer in.