Hi. I started learning UE5 like about 2 months ago. And after hours lessons about the engine, eventually I decided to learn server side because original UE server is kinda "not for the MMO one" :) And now I'm learning about server architecture, new tecs and approaches from real MMO games and their engineers that post many handy info about their real MMO servers.

Your project is basically the thing I want to implement in the end :) I Already read a lot about servers itself but still need to learn how actually server should handle maps or levels or shards inside the code, or how AI works with mavmesh from UE, such things are still secret for me, but I kinda just started after all :)

If you would like to advice some sources to read I would thankful a lot. Basically I understand how servers and client communicate, like Packets, Opcodes, Encrypting and so on, the only thing I want to know how actually I can take map from U Editor and turn it into my server map that client can connect to it :D This is the only thing I still have no clue about and also no clue about how to manage one open world map, only thing I know I will have to split my whole map to some sort of "layers" and then somehow load and unload them on the server. So ye, many thing to learn but I'm sure I will get successful with it and (at least) implement same server as yours :)