Again, this lobby system is made for Epic’s Maps and popular maps only, as far as multiplayer is concerned, you are completely dependent on discovery.
The only recourse is focusing hard on satisfying solo players cause even with discovery, you will need 200+ ccu to gain momentum with this sort of lobby system and really for lobbies to fill you will need 500+ ccu.
This is a massive flaw, or it is a feature.
I am leaning towards a feature at this point because they have only been bolstering this with other very anti-creator features.
When a player joins your map, they see a number beside the map, they expect those players in your map, that is never the case so they will leave unless you satisfy them with single player content.
This has only been helped along now as search is heavily manipulated now to show numbers that don’t even exist, Search now shows players when there are none and haven’t even been any.
Stop this deceptive design. It is obvious to anyone with half a brain.
Stop faking player count on lower player maps. Stop forcing regions, that only helps the elitists here. Between this and the XP system as well as many other “features” it is obvious what is going on.