Five‑day lift ends as Monday drops back to weekday normal
A sharp Monday decline broke the recent run — overall activity fell while one mid‑sized server kept climbing and another vanished from scans.
The five‑day lift has ended: Monday’s average player count slid to 148,669, down 12.7% from Sunday and 3.2% below the seven‑day mean. The drop flattened the recent upward run rather than producing a new network low — peak concurrency held at 230,516, well short of recent peaks. Two server stories stand out: The Islands staged a highly unusual multi‑day climb (avg 353, +1056.1% vs its own 7‑day norm and up five days straight), while SURGE Town effectively disappeared from our scans (avg 2, -97.9% vs its own norm).
The day in players
Average concurrent FiveM players by hour (UTC). Busiest hour: 19:00
Monday reverted the network back toward a weekday profile after a five‑day rise that ended on Sunday. Average concurrent players were 148,669, a clear 12.7% fall from Saturday/Sunday levels (170,269) and 3.2% below the seven‑day average of 153,650 — enough to call the recent run broken but not to signal a new trough. Peak concurrency remained high at 230,516 (the peak was only exceeded one day earlier), so the network did not experience an unusual single‑moment surge or collapse; rather the change is in sustained daily average. The hourly curve was routine: the quietest hour was 08:00 UTC (84,265) and the busiest 19:00 UTC (229,450), showing a normal evening peak. Server capacity and utilisation stayed low — 32,779 servers online on average with 4.5 players per server and an average slot fill of 11.4% — indicating the dip is spread across many servers rather than concentrated on a handful. RedM followed the same pattern: average down to 5,923 (‑11.7% vs yesterday) on 1,835 servers. In short, Monday reset the short run of growth back toward mid‑week norms rather than producing new highs or an ecosystem‑wide crash.
Who moved
Most of yesterday’s meaningful movement was about relative surprise, not scale. The Islands (en‑US) is the day’s most statistically unusual mover: average concurrent players rose to 353 from 149 (+204), but more importantly this is +1056.1% versus its own seven‑day average of 31, and it is up five days straight. That pattern — sustained daily gains rather than a single‑day spike — is the signal developers should watch; a five‑day climb of that magnitude is more likely adoption than noise, and if it holds it will move the server out of ‘mid’ into reliable medium‑size territory. At the other extreme, SURGE Town (ja‑JP) collapsed from 135 to 2 players (‑98.3% day‑on‑day) and sits at an average of 2 versus a seven‑day norm of 109 (‑97.9% vs its own norm). Such near‑complete drops usually indicate a listing outage, wipe or configuration change; confirm availability before reading this as simple player loss. Several large Portuguese‑language servers registered declines (LIGA DAS TROPAS down 229 to 1,111; ✅CIDADE SANTA ROLEPLAY down 227 to 1,165; ✅Nobre RolePlay down 191 to 760). Those moves look sizable in absolute terms but are close to each server’s own recent norms (LIGA DAS TROPAS is +1% vs its 7‑day average, CIDADE SANTA is -2.9%), so they read as routine weekend‑to‑weekday reversion rather than structural loss. SHARK COMMUNITY (th‑TH) is down two days running, a short streak worth watching if it extends. Finally, the leaderboard saw large rank climbs for many servers returning or relisting — Seven Glory Roleplay’s leap to rank 2,595 from 32,604 is the clearest example of a server reappearing at scale (avg 187) rather than a sustained network shift.
Script adoption
Script adoption was broadly flat with small, widespread declines that conform to normal churn. oxmysql lost 170 hosts (now on 29,447 servers, ‑0.6%; 7‑day net ‑58) and pma‑voice lost 161 hosts (now 27,215, ‑0.6%; 7‑day net ‑51). Those moves are routine in size and sit close to each package’s seven‑day averages (oxmysql own 7‑day avg 29,382; pma‑voice own 7‑day avg 27,159). The esx menu and core packages each shed roughly 80–100 servers (es_extended ‑92, esx_menu_list ‑90, esx_menu_default ‑88, esx_menu_dialog ‑95); again, their 7‑day nets (between roughly ‑111 and ‑187) point to modest short‑term churn rather than a mass migration. PolyZone and ox_target both fell by ~100–130 servers; their percentage drops are sub‑1% and match routine volatility. No tracked resource posted a clear adoption spike yesterday: the day’s story is small declines across well‑established scripts, so developers should judge these as normal background movement unless the 7‑day net continues downward.
Losing servers
| Resource | Servers | Day | 7-day net | Streak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Around the ecosystem
New listings continue to be concentrated in Arabic and Portuguese locales. First‑time servers yesterday included AERO RF (ar‑DZ, avg 36, peak 53), KAOS (es‑PE, avg 28, peak 76) and Viena RP (pt‑BR, avg 9, peak 24). Those arrivals are modest in size but consistent with the past week’s broader regional shift: pt‑BR, en‑US, th‑TH and ar‑SA remain the largest shares of players. There was no single large launch yesterday that altered the locale mix; instead the day’s additions reinforce the ongoing geographic diversification we’ve tracked over recent weeks. If any of the new launches post steady growth over the next several days they will be the ones to name; for now they are small, localised entries.
What it means
Yesterday is best read as a reset. The five‑day lift that took averages up into the high 160ks and 170ks has ended: Monday’s average (148,669) returns the network toward the mid‑150k weekday norm we saw earlier in the fortnight. That pattern — a short burst over the weekend followed by a weekday reversion — is normal; the key questions are whether the reversion holds and which servers, if any, convert weekend interest into sustained growth. The Islands is the only clear candidate so far: a five‑day climb and a +1056.1% deviation from its seven‑day norm is the kind of momentum that can persist. Conversely, SURGE Town’s near‑disappearance is the clearest short‑term outlier and should be checked for outage or delisting. For server owners the practical takeaway is predictable: expect weekday reversion but use this week to test retention tactics that convert weekend peaks into midweek averages. For script developers, the broad single‑day losses in core packages are small and within normal 7‑day volatility; continued monitoring of 7‑day net figures will distinguish routine churn from a genuine trend. Watch The Islands over the next 3–7 days — if it stays elevated, it’s a signal of real adoption; if SURGE Town returns to prior levels, yesterday reads as a transient outage rather than a collapse. Finally, the strong, continued presence of Portuguese, Arabic and Thai locales suggests regional growth remains the primary driver of network shifts rather than a single large global launch.
The biggest servers that day
| # | Server | Avg. players | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  SHARK COMMUNITY | 1,413 | 1,930 |
| 2 |  🌴 Baylife 🌴 Roleplay avec contenu exclusif → discord.gg/baylife | 1,353 | 1,744 |
| 3 |  ✅CIDADE SANTA ROLEPLAY #WIPE ONTEM! | 1,165 | 1,870 |
| 4 | LIGA DAS TROPAS —> .gg/ligadastropas | 1,111 | 2,025 |
| 5 |  Boleto County | مقاطعة بوليتو |
RedM
| # | Server | Avg. players | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Syn County Roleplay 18+ | 264 | 436 |
| 2 | NAWA SIAM SRP | 221 | 449 |
| 3 |
What to take away
- FiveM’s average fell to 148,669, down 12.7% vs Sunday and 3.2% below the seven‑day mean.
- The Islands posted a statistically extreme climb — avg 353, +1056.1% vs its own seven‑day norm — and is up five days straight.
- SURGE Town dropped to an average of 2 players (‑97.9% vs its own seven‑day norm), consistent with an outage or delist.
- Core scripts saw small, widespread losses (oxmysql ‑170 hosts; pma‑voice ‑161), amounts that match routine churn rather than a platform shift.
- Portugal/Brazil remains the largest single locale share (pt‑BR 20.9%), and new first‑time servers continue to appear in Arabic and Portuguese markets.
- Yesterday broke the short run of daily growth rather than producing a new network high or low; monitor 3–7 day persistence for confirmation.
