As i think most of us know, as of now the only way to get more residences it by buying gold or diamond "status". I think it would be really cool if regular players where allowed to earn 1 res by purchasing them with empire credits, or from being on the server x number of hours. I also think, to be fair to people who have gold or diamond, if gold and diamond can each earn one more res. Of course you could only earn one res, if you could earn as many as you wanted, that would be crazy. This would also help with the amount of unclaimed reses. At the moment smp6 has 15 unclaimed reses, and many more that the people have been off for weeks. The newly claimed residences could also help make the live map look much happier.
No. Daily, I would estimate 25-100 new members joining the empire. Each one of them needing at least one residence because everyone is given the ability to claim one residence when they join. Of those people that join some of them will become supporters and end up claiming 2-4 residences. At that rate those 15 free residences will be needed so that new members could claim them. If you don't think that you can get much done in 1 residence look at terrydaterrorist and coffee_bullet. They both SHARE a res and I believe coffee is atleast a millionaire atm. This idea has been brought up before and this is one of the many points of why we can't have this.
No. people could just afk as much as they want and get "hours" in for an extra res. maybe the empire credits idea, for like 6 months of voting... it cant be easy then why would you donate?
