I think are a lot of newcomers, even on 1.23. However in this time with these routers there is a decreasing amount of people that are being able to host. In the time I could host for example ( between 1 year and 6 months ago) when I hosted a game there would be arround 10 people after a while, they are just waiting for a server to come online. (Maybe we should make a battle server V2.