Sounds about right
I appreciate all the feedback

Since this will be the only server they will play on, they already understand and have no interest in playing on other servers.
This is just a coop venture with my friends and I, on one server.

If this is not possible then I will have to live with the updates...

thanks for the replies

I am only interested in having friends play on the server, not open to the public

I have not set up a server in years, and I was a big fan of ES, and until today did not know ES was no longer supported (sad) However, the issue I used to run into was the constant updates, which caused the server not to function. It became a pain in then butt trying to replace or substitute good sc...