Brazil keeps gaining share as several small servers spike
Average players slipped from Friday’s bounce but Brazil and a clutch of rising servers drove the day; core resources continue a slow decline.
FiveM’s average fell 7% from Friday’s bounce to 153,694 players but remained 2.5% above the seven‑day mean. pt‑BR rose to 21% of players, continuing the regional shift we’ve tracked over the last week. At the same time a handful of previously tiny servers climbed to career‑best leaderboard positions, while core resources continue a slow, measurable decline.
The day in players
Average concurrent FiveM players by hour (UTC). Busiest hour: 20:00
Yesterday was not a directional day for the platform — the single‑day bounce on 22 May gave back ground but the broader week has no clear trend. Average concurrent players dropped to 153,694, down 7% on Thursday’s spike (165,199) but still 2.5% above the seven‑day average (149,886). Peak concurrency reached 222,423 and the busiest hour was the usual 20:00 UTC; the day’s quietest point was 79,778 at the late morning trough. Server capacity was effectively unchanged: average servers online were 32,849 (a 0.4% decline from yesterday), so the fall in players was driven by lower slot‑fill rather than fewer servers. Players per server sat at 4.7 and average slot fill remained low at 19.9%, underlining that higher peaks earlier in the week were driven by fuller servers rather than added capacity. The hourly curve stayed familiar — a steady climb through the European evening into the 20:00 UTC peak — and nothing in the shape of the curve suggests an event‑scale anomaly. In short: Friday’s bounce proved temporary; the platform cooled but remained slightly above its recent average.
Who moved
What mattered yesterday was redistribution: several small or previously quiet servers registered large, unusual gains relative to their own norms. ProdigyRP’s public and allowlist instances stand out — ProdigyRP Public West jumped to an average of 214 (from 4) and ProdigyRP Allowlist rose to 224 (from 34), and the allowlist build has now run four days straight above its baseline. Both moves are very large compared with those servers’ seven‑day norms and are worth watching for persistence. #PGUN YENİ SEZON also reappeared from zero to 126 and is four days into a run; its percentage change is extreme because the baseline was nil, so confirm over a full week before treating it as sustained growth. In Southeast Asia and Brazil, a few incumbents continued to strengthen: 💕 PASSION COMMUNITY 💕 rose to 127 (up from 2) and KERP climbed to 296, each running multiple days above recent norms. On the flipside, several medium‑size French and German servers trimmed back; FlashBack FA and DIAMOND CITY FR each lost roughly a fifth of their players, and a cluster of FR/DE servers ran notably below their seven‑day averages. That pullback, combined with the gains from smaller new or returning servers, produced most of the day’s leaderboard churn rather than movement from the very largest hosts. The leaderboard itself shows the effect: a string of previously tiny servers —桃源郷GTA Season2 and Solaris Roleplay among them— made massive rank gains and several servers (including Narco City and 💕 PASSION COMMUNITY 💕) registered their best ranks in 30+ days. Those rank jumps are significant because they reflect large relative changes on tiny baselines; treat them as potential breakout signals but not yet confirmation of long‑term growth.
Biggest gains
| Server | Avg. players | Change | vs. own norm |
|---|
Script adoption
Core resources recorded modest but consistent declines yesterday. oxmysql fell by 417 servers to 29,731 (a 7‑day net of ‑420), pma‑voice dropped 386 (to 27,712, 7‑day net ‑370) and ox_lib lost 323 instances (to 26,771, 7‑day net ‑279). bob74_ipl and screenshot‑basic also trimmed several hundred servers each. Those are not single‑day catastrophes; they mirror the slow bleed we’ve been tracking for core libs and tools over the last week. The 7‑day net figures make this clearer: oxmysql’s 7‑day net is ‑420 and pma‑voice is ‑370, indicating the platform is shedding a few hundred reported installs of these packages across the last seven days rather than a one‑off data blip. For script authors and server engineers this matters because it changes the denominator for integrations and adoption rates: a measured decline in core dependencies reduces the reachable install base for add‑ons and voice/DB tooling. There were no large one‑day adoptions to counterbalance the drop; the resource picture yesterday is best read as steady, incremental attrition rather than a migration event.
Losing servers
| Resource | Servers | Day | 7-day net | Streak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| oxmysql | 29,731 | -417-1.4% | -420 | — |
Around the ecosystem
New entries yesterday were geographically varied: first‑time servers included 9Kings V2 (en‑GB), Freeline (fi‑FI), ROX GUN 1.0 (tr‑TR) and Respect Night CFW (ar‑SA). The arrival list tilts heavily toward small averages (many under 60 concurrent), which is typical for first appearances and requires several days’ confirmation to evaluate retention. Locale shares continued to shift: pt‑BR expanded to 21% of players (from 15.8% a week ago), en‑US rose to 16.9% (from 12.4%) and th‑TH reached 13.3% (from 10%). That regional drift is not new this week but it is persistent — Brazilian and Thai servers are contributing a larger slice of evening capacity than they were a week ago, and pockets labelled root‑AQ also increased their share to 6.5% (from 5.1%). The geographic mix yesterday therefore reinforced the longer move toward more diverse, non‑Western regional weightings rather than signalling a sudden re‑centralisation around the largest EU/NA hosts.
New arrivals
| # | Server | Avg. players | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52 | 121 | |
| 2 |
What it means
Where this day sits: after a four‑day slide earlier in the week, Friday’s sharp bounce looked like an interruption; Saturday’s data shows a partial reversion rather than a fresh direction. Average players remain roughly in the same band they’ve occupied for the last two weeks, and the hourly curve shows no out‑of‑pattern event. The actionable items are simple. For server owners: watch the ProdigyRP instances and #PGUN over the next three to seven days — both are running multiple days above tiny baselines, and sustained retention there would convert rank spikes into meaningful capacity. For community managers in Brazil and Thailand, the growth in regional share is now multi‑day and worth planning around; those locales account for a non‑trivial portion of evening peak capacity and will affect matchmaking and streaming strategy. For script developers: the small but steady 7‑day losses in core packages (oxmysql, pma‑voice, ox_lib) deserve attention; if those drops continue at the same rate they will materially shrink the install base for add‑ons over a month. Confirm both readings — server retention on the new spikes, and further declines in core resources — over the next 72–168 hours. If the new servers hold their gains they change where you target outreach; if core resource losses accelerate, they suggest either reporting differences or a real migration that will affect compatibility planning. Neither outcome is certain from one day’s data, but both are now worth watching closely.
The biggest servers that day
| # | Server | Avg. players | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,506 | 1,815 | |
| 2 | 1,391 | 1,916 | |
| 3 | 1,161 | 1,650 | |
| 4 | 1,008 | 1,701 | |
| 5 | 983 |
RedM
| # | Server | Avg. players | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 345 | 505 | |
| 2 | 160 | 300 | |
| 3 |
What to take away
- FiveM average fell 7% from Friday to 153,694 players but stayed 2.5% above the seven‑day mean.
- pt‑BR rose to 21% of players, continuing a multi‑day regional shift toward Brazilian servers.
- Several small or previously quiet servers posted large relative gains and a handful hit career‑best leaderboard ranks.
- Core resources (oxmysql, pma‑voice, ox_lib) each lost a few hundred installs and show a measurable 7‑day net decline.
- The platform’s hourly curve was normal — 20:00 UTC remained the busiest hour — so the day looks like redistribution, not an event spike.
- Watch whether ProdigyRP’s instances and #PGUN sustain their multi‑day runs; confirmation requires several more days of above‑baseline traffic.