Welcome to the Empire Startsphere. =D As I'm sure you've already found out, we're pretty darn friendly here so if you have questions feel free to ask and if you can't find the answer to your questions you might find them on the wiki here -> https://empireminecraft.com/wiki/index/ or you can find a staff typre person by doing /staff. That'll tell ya were to find one of us in game.
First off, Welcome to EMC! I've noticed based on my cash history you've been buying some stuff from me, and I'm glad you show interest in a currently struggling market. Oh heh, SMP8 you say? Well seeing as you've been a member for a little while, you probably know about the "quirks" over there. But all jokes aside, there's alot of friendly people on SMP8 who you will get to be buddies with most likely.