I've played ark, mainly did solo, small team.
Was looking at jumping into atlas and joining a large guild.
I honestly don't know much about it outside of a few trailers. Which I remember ark trailers and the actual game didn't look at all like the trailers.
I'm not sure on server size as this was advertised as an mmo, and I don't consider anything with small player count caps like ark an mmo by any means.
External link →I'm playing solo and having fun. Some of the issues I had before seem better now. Also a lot of other issues are still prevalent too :P
I definitely wouldn't give it a "you'll have fun" guarantee. You might, but there are plenty of mechanics the devs still have to work out and current systems that may get changed or tossed again so people should consider their progress potentially temporary.
Also if the game dies off in a similar manner to Dark and Light (another game with the same engine made by the same people) then the game will die off completely in 6 months to a year from now.
Here's a current player count checking tool
https://atlas.hgn.hu/grid/na/pvp
We're not the team that made Dark & Light. The only other IP this team has worked on was ARK right through until the release of the TLC 1 patch
devtrackers.gg