Lunkster is correct, great game, people like it, it's becoming more popular. I go out of my way to help people so good word of mouth is spread. I also did a few things at the inception of the server to help get it populated: 1. Advertised it on my Facebook gaming account (which has 5,000 friends {don't think there's a lot of crossover potential there, but what the hell}) 2. Googled "top Rust servers", then registered and advertised on the top 3 Rust server listing sites that Google returned. 3. Advertised on the Rust Reddit. 4. Advertised on the relevant Facepunch (Rust's creator) forums. 5. Advertised on a few other Rust gaming sites. Hopefully that helps, over time, to populate the server. The normal period for a map to last is 1 month. Facepunch pushes out an update once a month- first week of the month- which wipes most all servers, so I let the Facepunch wipe be the default map wipe date. So you have ~2 weeks until the new map; why not get in and get the hang of the game in time for the new map? See you in the server. ?