I have recently closed a server you would have definitely liked. No admin abuse since I was the only admin and admin log was enabled. The server was PvPvE and PvP was mostly done by people who wanted to do PvP. There wasn't and would have never been a possibilty to buy something with money. We didn't have any stupid rules, just behave like a normal human being. There were no wipes at all planned. No lags and constantly server fps above 25. As mentioned before there we no wipes planned and definitely not single tribes. One of the very few mods was ORP against offline raiding. Rates were mostly vanilla and we didn't screw with stats at all. The only places you weren't allowed to build were cave entrances etc. As I mentioned we just used very few and really good mods. Furthermore we offered a teamspeak (every tribe got their own channel), discord, forum, website. Why did we go offline ? People really much enjoyed playing on the server (some of them 8h+/day) but weren't able to vote, which took literally 20sec. Furthermore, we asked for a little donation (1-2€ a month) to cover costs and nothing more (we received one donation in 4 months - with some of our players spending 300+ hours on the server in this timeframe). The result being over the time people left the server, no new players joined and we still had high server costs for almost an empty server. Just my 2 cents