[Suggestion] Token rewards other than mob killing.

Correct, it can only go back a maximum of 10 days if you were to stop voting altogether.

As for the topic of this thread, as stated before, it's going to take a bit to come up with any additional token gaining methods that are not OP or farmable. When I mean farmable, I mean you not having to put forth that much effort. With enraged mobs, you are still in danger of dying while fighting, possibly losing your items, etc along the way.

I think the problem with peoples viewing of tokens is that they look at it as a single person.

Please understand that I am building a game here. And my goals for EMC are TEAM play, doing multiple aspects of the server.

Do not look at how many tokens you have personally, but look at the total of you and friends you'll claim outposts together.
Tokens and outpost claiming are intended to be a GROUP EFFORT to earn them together and use them together to claim outpost land. You will pool your tokens together into your Empire to spend on claiming.

If your goal is to play solo and not participate in things like combat, group activity or voting, then you're going to have to take longer to achieve your goals.

Think of it like another game, lets use Skyrim for example.
There is high end armor obtainable by joining the Thieves guild, that you have to steal stuff to earn.
Then theres other high end armor obtainable by joining the Dark Brotherhood and killing people.

Many players choose to not participate in that content of the game (Stealing and Killing people). They are unable to obtain those items.

It's no different here. If you are choosing to not participate in some aspects of the game, then you should not expect to have identical results.

Now, we're a little more friendlier than those games as we're not totally cutting you off, but we can't compromise on the design of the system to tailor to those who are choosing to not participate in multiple parts of the game.

If you're playing in the Frontier, fighting mobs is a key thing... It's the main benefit of Frontier vs Town, to keep the SURVIVAL aspect.

So, it's reasonable to expect those looking to claim settlements in the Frontier to be able to earn tokens through combat and group mining. Group settlement, players playing together, mining together, fighting the mobs they encounter together... etc. If Momentus spawns on your Outpost, you're going to kill it together to get rid of it. Tokens!

If you're just looking to claim a small auto farm, then the bonus earned through Voting should be sufficient...
If you're a Town player, why is this even a discussion? Tokens are primary being focused around Frontier play.

Also, dragon tombs is meant to be a primary source of tokens too, and was intended to come before Outpost claiming but the community voted other wise. So you're going to have to cope with current mechanisms for Outpost claiming.

I do not have the time to add any new major source of tokens before DT or Outpost Claiming.

Now, I can potentially see a new source of consecutive login days like voting streaks give, for active EMC players, but note that tokens are also called CHALLENGE Tokens. They are not to be handed out freely. you need to do something worthwhile to earn them.

I'm sorry if this upsets you, but I'm not compromising on my vision for EMC here.

As said before, we changed the voting system so you never 'start over', worse case scenario is to lose 10 days to catch up, which with high voting activity can be recovered in a week or so.

Not "Give", but you'll be able to specify how many of your tokens your Empire leader can use, so your 'allocating permission' to use your tokens on Empire specific things like Outpost claiming (giving you the power to not let them use ALL of your tokens...)

So no actual transfer happens until they are consumed, then itll distribute spend between everyone.

the leader would not be able to use it on personal things (like avaluancher), only on things thats for the Empire.

Tokens for events are once again balanced based on the challenge. You lose nothing by participating, so why should you be handed thousands of tokens. A lot of thought was put into exactly what it should be worth in a controlled environment such as an event.

I'll just ditto what Aikar said for the rest of it. Sure we can look into alternatives, but overall tokens are meant to be rewards for challenging tasks. Also there are other prizes associated with Mob Arena and Firefloor and the tokens are just an additional gift, not actually the real prize being sought.

Only normal MA would require the loss of any items and the winner takes off with anything others drop in the chests.

Events aren't really held to give out prizes, that's just a bonus. The purpose of events is to provide an atmosphere for the players to have fun and interact with staff in a good way.

We do give out tokens for events that balance out quite well. Most rounds of firefloor and mob arena allow the player to gain anywhere from 200-500 tokens for winning a round. We aren't going to award tokens simply for participation sake for a few reasons. Sending tokens requires SS+ to manually type out the players' names and players would show up and just hang out afk to gain tokens. If you participate in the events for tokens, your time IS better invested mob hunting, but that's how it's supposed to be.