My wife and I look for servers that run 25-50 players usually. We like populated servers but we have noticed that performance gets worse with each Alpha release. It's to the point that servers have to restart VERY frequently to clear out whatever memory leaks and junk that piles up on the servers. I just don't think that 7D2D is going to see any kind of "Golden Age" with multiplayer because it gets further away from it as time goes on. If they are thinking of improving it, TFP is really shooting themselves in the foot right now because of the backlog of issues they are creating.