5K LOW RULES 丨 Growth - Lock 丨 Survival-PvP

Spoofing analysis

• Player count barely moves

  +35 points

  99% of readings repeat the previous value at a median of 154 players. Real populations churn between polls.

• Fills up instantly after restart

  +30 points

  173 restarts repopulated faster than clients can load: 161 players 6 min after a restart (27/min, previous peak 0); 161 players 3 min after a restart (54/min, previous peak 0); 161 players 6 min after a restart (27/min, previous peak 161).

• Repeats on a fixed interval

  +9 points

  The curve repeats itself every ~14 min. Human traffic does not run on a timer.

• Counts snap to a grid

  +5 points

  only 6 distinct values across 700 readings. Real counts land on arbitrary numbers.

Based on 818 readings over 42h, median 154 players. Analysed 2 min ago.

Related servers

Servers that share something measurable with this one. None of this proves a common owner by itself, and the weaker signals only show up when few enough servers share them to mean anything at all.