Listing Advantage
 

All servers have their peak times,but the average they maintain (which can change) gives a good idea of establishment.
This example,(collected aug 25,2018) showing servers with an average base of 30+ players, is living proof that your server
doesn't need a list status for players to like it. Keeping you on top just makes you easy to find.

https://image.ibb.co/iv5vv9/average_players.png

Servers get demoted/promoted all the time. I don't have access to all of the backend services as Rogean does so we don't have any automated voting systems that I would like to have in place. It's manually done from time to time

In general, the criteria in green has been roughly 3-6 months uptime with good standing in the community and obviously a population to boot. Reborn obviously looks really good as of late but will probably give it a bit more time to follow the same suite since it literally just launched

I would be interested in reading the parameters involved in how a server gets promoted/demoted, if such exists.

Read Akkadius last comment.

Uptime + Population+scommunity standing

If these numbers mean what I think they mean, I am not unhappy.

I would love to have more, but an average of 30 players is not horrible when you consider that the Max is only 59.

Also, I don't know how far back these stats go but for a few months in 2015 our players online rarely went above 10. And I was 2 of those players.