My experience with small tribes official low pop

So a little background, I have about 500 hours now at this point. I have pretty much played entirely solo and learned everything by myself, except for the shirt 10 hours I played with a friend on a modded server. Which I found I enjoy the slower pace of vanilla. Anyways.......

I've been going day after day testing spots on this low pop lost island server and almost every day I have woken up raided.

Finally I find a spot that lasts me 3 days before anybody finds it. But then on day four half my base is missing but they were not able to get the 1 room that held my safe I think they ran out of explosives the base was stone on the outside and completely metal inside lol

. So I hop on yesterday and wonder if I should move or just patch up and keep going. I decided to patch up. So I start smelting metal and crafting to patch. And as I'm logging for the night with a sealed base 3 guys are raiding me with big ass dinos. All I could do was laugh because I'm sure it was the guys from the other night salty that they got no loot after all the destruction they caused. And we're there to finish the job. But they essentially had to raid the base again through metal just to finish the job. In the end I lost my base but it was a hell of a ride and I'm still laughing at the effort those guys had to put in for the amount of loot they got xDxDxD it was nothing substantial and no good saddles .

Looking forward to getting back in there later and trying again :)

What is everybody else's experience on small tribes?