Actually, I think that it's a matter of hour/day of the week combination. You see, CTE is played by a quite low number of people (unluckily) and right now it's morning in Europe and middle of the night in America. Basically, two regions with the most CTE players are not really active at the moment. In that case I am pretty sure that CTE servers simply ARE empty at the moment.
I guess that the number of players should go up around evening.
But as said in my original post, I have tried different times a day, from the morning to the afternoon.
But I might as well just check once in a while...
Well, I still think that it's a matter of lack of people... and when they actually gather, it usually happens in a flash. Back when I was in CTE (had to give up on it at one point) it was good when 10 people gathered during evenings (for Europe)... when people have gathered, they usually were Americans who played around 2-3 AM CET.
Also, I suppose that keeping an eye on CTE subreddit could help when it comes to finding these... maybe. Can't really guarantee it. One reason that makes people gather on servers a bit more often is checking some particular game aspects, so that's why I think it might help.
