The server matches typically range from 30 minutes to two hours. Goonstation is the first and most populated type of server, typically ranging from around 50+ players out of 450. Each server follows one of currently four types: Baystation, /tg/station, Colonial Marines, and Goonstation.

There are three forms of server structure for space station 13. Now, there are around 300 players playing on average at all times, and the game's mechanics are becoming more and more robust. Bay12games also created Baystation around this time, and the three codebases that each server runs on are all publicly available for download, and this has caused even more servers to crop up based around those codebases. In 2010, player numbers peaked at 50 and 4chan's /tg/ caught wind of the game, spawning what is known as /tg/station. Throughout the years, the game slowly gained popularity, and more servers and more maps began to crop up.

In 2007, Space Station 13 gained some attention from communities like Penny Arcade, and around this time, the player numbers peaked at 18, with new maps being created, and a new backstory being made, with Nanotrasen (the company running Space Station 13) being fully aware that their space stations are 'nonsensical metal death traps masquerading as space stations,' but they don't do anything about it, because the cost-cutting measures they use are simply too effective.

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