10 Players at the begining for the builders and Terraforming only, From there to 80 players to 100 players.
I’ve used dedicated ovh boxes, it’s worth the hassle down the road if your server were to grow and you also have complete control. There’s a few tutorials on youtube on how to configure them but eventually you should get the hang of things.
Actually a server is priced on 1. How long the hamster can survive and 2. The wheel of which server power comes from. So if you want to mak a good server, feed the hamster and be wary of bots becoming aware. (Cough) Pivillean will take over and rule ECC (Cough)