Two‑day rebound continues; regional shares keep shifting
Average players rose for a second day running but remain below the week’s mean, while en‑US and several regional rooms grabbed noticeably more share.
The platform rose for a second consecutive day but has not yet recovered to the seven‑day average. en‑US player share climbed from 12% to 16.3%, and a handful of regional rooms — notably a Thai cluster and several root‑AQ entries — did the heavy lifting. At the same time VGZ Community posted one of the day’s most abnormal gains while SPACE TOWN reversed course and dropped sharply.
The day in players
Average concurrent FiveM players by hour (UTC). Busiest hour: 20:00
Yesterday was broadly ordinary in headline numbers: average concurrent players nudged up to 144,517 (+0.4% vs yesterday) but remain below the seven‑day mean (−1.3%). Peak concurrency reached 203,607, a high that sits well inside the recent range (a higher peak was recorded four days earlier). The day’s quietest point was 82,238 and the daily curve followed the familiar pattern of a low in the early morning and a steady climb into a 20:00 UTC peak. Server count moved down slightly to 32,214 (−1.9%), which means the small rise in average players came with fewer servers online — a redistribution rather than clear platform growth. Players per server stayed low at 4.5 and slot fill held at 12.2%, underscoring ongoing fragmentation: large numbers of small rooms continue to divide the audience rather than concentrate it. Busiest and quietest hours were the usual ones (20:00 and 08:00 UTC respectively), so the day’s lift was temporal rather than structural.
Who moved
The most unusual single mover yesterday was VGZ Community (th‑TH). It jumped to an average of 437 from 232 (+204), sitting +275.7% versus its own seven‑day norm and marking a two‑day run higher. That combination — a large absolute increase plus a very large multiple of the server’s normal — is precisely the kind of discovery event that can seed continued attention in a region. Vision RP (root‑AQ) behaved similarly in percentage terms: an increase from a seven‑day average of 8 to 63 (+489.4% vs its norm) and a three‑day ascent that pushed it into the day’s rank climbers. default FXServer also reappeared from near‑zero to 51 players (its best 30+‑day rank), but its raw size is still small; treat it as a local recovery rather than platform‑level growth. On the negative side, SPACE TOWN reversed the multi‑day run we flagged last week and fell by 213 players to 465 (−31.4%), now below its own seven‑day average. That decline is the clearest single reversal of the day and suggests the Thai cluster’s internal balance is shifting: some Thai rooms surged while a previously hot room cooled. Other notable moves include Skyline City, which collapsed to an average of 8 (down from 54) and has been falling for three days straight — a classic local retreat rather than systemic churn. Overall the movers list reads as regional reallocation: a few rooms absorbed attention while other, previously large rooms gave it back.
Script adoption
The script story yesterday was not about sudden adoption but steady attrition among several widely used core modules. oxmysql lost 565 installs (now on 29,060 servers), pma‑voice dropped 515 (26,918), and bob74_ipl lost 509 (24,770); each of the top libraries has been declining for multiple days and shows a negative seven‑day net in the fact sheet. ox_lib, screenshot‑basic and ox_target also recorded daily falls and are part of a run of three to four days of losses for many ox‑prefixed resources. The declines are modest in percentage terms (roughly 1.7–2.5% day over day) but consistent: this is not a single outlier sweep but a slow bleed across the dependency stack. For script authors that matters because sustained small losses are how install baselines shift — a continued trend would be visible in next week’s 7d nets. If these drops reverse in the next two scans it looks like short‑term churn; if they persist, it will be a material migration signal worth investigating.
Losing servers
| Resource | Servers | Day | 7-day net | Streak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| oxmysql | 29,060 | -565-1.9% | -606 |
Around the ecosystem
New servers continued to appear across a wide range of locales. The biggest first‑timer by reach was 👑COMPLEXOOOOO👑 (pt‑BR) with an average of 243 and a peak of 362, which is notable for a newcomer in the Brazilian cluster. Other fresh rooms arrived in Poland, India and Israel, showing the usual geographic diversity of new launches. On the locale front the mix moved decisively: en‑US share climbed from 12% a week ago to 16.3% today, pt‑BR rose to 19.9% (from 18.6%) and th‑TH moved to 13.5% (from 10.1%). Root‑AQ and fr‑FR also advanced their shares. Those shifts are uneven and driven by a handful of active rooms in each region rather than broad, simultaneous growth everywhere — again, redistribution within the global audience rather than wholesale expansion.
New arrivals
| # | Server | Avg. players | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 243 | 362 | |
| 2 | 65 | 184 | |
| 3 | 47 | 160 |
What it means
Put simply: yesterday continued the small rebound we’ve seen over two scans but it is not an inflection. The platform’s average is up for a second day yet still below the seven‑day norm, peak concurrency is inside the recent range, and server count is slightly lower — a picture of redistribution. The most actionable items for teams are regional and dependency signals. Regionally, en‑US and several non‑Portuguese clusters picked up share; server owners in those locales should watch whether the gains hold through the weekend or collapse back once local events end. On dependencies, the slow, multi‑day declines in oxmysql, pma‑voice, bob74_ipl and several ox‑prefixed libraries are the clearer multi‑day trend in the data: it’s small but persistent, and if it continues it will change the baseline for many resource authors. Finally, the Thai cluster remains volatile — rooms that were high this month can fall fast and vice versa — so a single server’s swing (SPACE TOWN) does not yet indicate systemic weakness. Over the next 72 hours watch two things: whether en‑US share consolidates (confirming a genuine regional pivot) and whether the core script losses either stop or accelerate (which would tell you if this is transient churn or a migration in progress).
The biggest servers that day
| # | Server | Avg. players | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,577 | 1,928 | |
| 2 | 1,263 | 1,591 | |
| 3 | 1,055 | 1,999 | |
| 4 | 946 | 1,577 | |
| 5 |
RedM
| # | Server | Avg. players | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 262 | 499 | |
| 2 | 253 | 407 | |
| 3 |
What to take away
- Average players rose for a second consecutive day to 144,517 but remain below the seven‑day mean.
- en‑US player share climbed from 12% to 16.3%, while pt‑BR and th‑TH also increased their shares.
- VGZ Community surged to 437 players, sitting +275.7% versus its own seven‑day norm and up two days straight.
- SPACE TOWN reversed a recent run and dropped 213 players, now below its seven‑day average.
- Core modules (oxmysql, pma‑voice, bob74_ipl and others) recorded multi‑day declines — small daily losses but consistent.
- New arrivals included a high‑reaching Portuguese first‑timer (COMPLEXOOOOO) and several regionally focused launches.