Well 10am gmt+2 is like 3am for americans. Americans make up alot of toribash. 6pm is like 10am for americans as well. Also, player count no longer judges how many players you will get. You dont know if its newbies from steam thats on or if theres high experienced betters on.

Only reason i could see why your servers failed, based on what you said, is the time.

Though i may be wrong, i dont host to often.