I see that you're all making a big deal about this server feature. But, I'm not excited like almost everyone else is. Other than being mythical and multi-delayed: What are The Empires about? Where can players utilize this future feature? ( When skipped; software development time varies a lot ) Why are the Empires so important to many long-time EMC players? How ... ? - My personal focus is more on Mojang's MC 1.12 update, which has started being wrapped-up for its full release, according to Dinnerbone. I'll recommend expecting 1.12 on EMC to be delayed. I don't know how complicated of a system Aikar and his team just got themselves into. (The patience has not grayed-out, yet, for this builder.)
1.11.2 won't be delayed caused of empires 2nd Empires is a "permanent" group which will allow multiple permisions/features to be added. Now friend list, won't need to be your "build" list, as khixan calls it. Importance? is a step closer to land claiming. How? Supporting aikar to code faster =P
I am looking forward to seeing all this brings to our outposts myself. I think it will be great for my interests.
Empires is not related to DT. However, once Empires is done, progress on DT will be started (probably after a few quality of life updates), so Empires progress will eventually lead to DT.
The community voted for Empires and Outposts to be our next major features to be developed. Empires is the precursor to Outposts, a huge part of EMC. Empires will be used for far more than Frontier Outposts, they will be your "Official Group". They will even have forum profiles / mini sites eventually. Frontier Outposts are not owned by a "user", they are owned by an Empire. So in order to have an Empire to assign the Outpost to, we have to create Empires first. Empires dev will be paused once 1.12 is to the point I should begin working on it. Dragon Tombs comes after Outposts.
So correct me if I am wrong, but this is my understanding... This is kinda like Factions? Like you have to create the group (aka Empire) first, then you can claim (assign the Outpost) for the group?
Not sure what to think of this, but as it's just a loose sentence in a post about a broader subject, I probably shouldn't worry about it for now.
Like 50 times. Probably is very similar, but more so towards Towny. But I don't use those plugins / check on other servers, so I don't know. I'm designing it the way I think it should be designed to provide players control and an experience that fits my vision for EMC.
Please tell me that individual Empires will have to meet the Outpost restrictions. I would hate for EMC to end up like one of those terrible faction servers where every block within 15k of spawn is claimed by an abandoned faction. :I
