

But it is utterly ridiculous that the game just doesn't have servers you can play on. So far we've been plying with no problems on a persistent game that saves. We went ahead and rented a server from for a month to see how it goes. Seems like the general price for a >8 man server is roughly $8/mo or $50-60/6mo if you don't rent comm servers with it or get additional people.

Or you have to rent a server from a server site. To do this you have to buy another copy of the game of course to run as the server. So to make a persistent game that doesn't go away or turn into a single player game the next time you have to either create a dedicated server that someone has to host themselves on a computer. Which seems ridiculous for a game in 2018.

Well from my research this is just the way the game handles multiplayer without having to go out of your way to set up a dedicated server.
