: The biggest issue is the immediate "bait and switch." A player joins expecting a 40-person roleplay environment but finds only 2 real people. This usually results in an instant disconnect and a permanent loss of that player's trust.

Cfx.re has explicitly banned "artificial player inflation." It violates their Terms of Service as .

: Some developers use utilities like txAdmin-playerGen to populate the txAdmin web panel player list for testing purposes. It is important to note that this specific tool does not affect the public FiveM server list.