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It depends whether your group wants to finish the pack. The 5.10 line is an open beta and the developers say plainly that it cannot be completed, because the Wasteland and Abyss districts are absent along with the endgame gear. If you want a full playthrough, run the last complete release instead. If you want the newest districts and content, the beta is the one.

They are the same pack version, but the DH Edition is the heavier variant the developers used for their trailers, and they warn it needs a powerful computer to run at a playable frame rate. That cost is on your players' machines rather than on the server. Pick whichever your group can actually run, and make sure everybody installs the same one.

8 GB for a group of around six. The pack runs heavier than its mod list suggests because of the city: generating dense custom buildings costs far more per chunk than ordinary terrain, and those buildings are full of blocks, loot containers and mobs that stay loaded while players are inside them. Pregenerating the area around spawn takes a good share of that off the live server.

City generation. Each new district chunk builds detailed structures rather than landscape, so pushing into unexplored city is much more expensive than walking across fields. Add Chunky to the server, pregenerate a decent radius around spawn while nobody is online, and let it finish. Keeping view distance moderate helps too, since loaded city chunks carry a lot more in them than terrain does.

Yes, enough to act on. The pack expects you to start in a medium or large suburb residential district, and its own guidance is to generate a new world if you did not. Progression and the difficulty curve are built around that starting point. Check it before anyone builds, because regenerating the world on day one is free and doing it later is not.

Yes, and it is tied to how long each player has survived rather than to a server-wide clock, so someone who joins late ramps up on their own schedule. The difficulty also rises as the days pass. Practically, that means a long-running server keeps getting more dangerous for the veterans while new players still get a manageable start, which suits a group that plays regularly.