Fellow creative players, you should be aware of nation-style servers
I am a player who likes to endlessly build, for many years I played exclusively singleplayer creative. I'd build a boat, tank, plane or car, fantasize about being able to use them for something, then went onto the next project.
After my first 1000 hours of this, I wanted to try my builds in multiplayer. My builds would get blown up, I faced a ton of build restrictions/agressive auto-cleanup and in the end the servers were quite lifeless.
After trying a few more servers, I eventually ended up on the dock of a player built city. behind me was a cargo ship, with a massive bridge in the background. The leader of the city happened to be online, and toured me around the city with her car. She refilled at the gas station, showed the boat being built at the drydock and gave me some free materials to start building myself.
I had stumbled on my first nation server. People start nations by making a land claim on a (usually earth-shaped) planet, then build a capital city there. People can't attack claims unless they first declare war on that nation, while the cities give you places to visit (and show off). Grids are manually cleaned up for safety, there's no build restrictions and missing grids are almost always recovered by staff
I can't play any other way anymore. Its so cool building an airfield people will actually land at, or docking at a friendly nation with your ship. Everything you build pays off, and you can always expand more. Its laid back, theres no rules on how or what to build and combat is completely optional. I hope that this post can help spread awareness that these servers exist, and maybe get people just as hooked as I am myself
My current nation server, gas station in a town I bought a 2nd house at
Place I docked at with my ship, free hotel
Big developed city with an iconic duo
Old nation server, military runway and dock
