The Empire of the Future - My vision! (Updated: 7/13/18)

The idea of challenge tokens, a new currency, and the ability to teleport to your "Empire" whilst at town or going to town while at your "Empire" is a terrible idea. First off, why do we need a 2nd currency, what's wrong with what we have? And the use of challenge tokens will render buying supporter useless which would slowly kill the Empire if no one buys supporter and instead uses said challenge tokens to buy perks. Now think about the outcome of everyone getting the perk of TNT or multiple residences, widespread use of TNT will be a terrible thing to be giving away, and the multiple residences will fill up our servers faster than before. My next point is how you would add quests without involving mob killing/mining. Minecraft is based off of killing mobs and mining, I just don't really see how you could have a quest without one. Now on to the idea of the cross town "Empire" teleporting. It would completely destroy the economy if everyone can easily get to their farms without wasting any time. Now don't get me wrong, I don't like riding my nether track to my base, but at least I can't easily farm rare items and go back to town to store them away.

Well you can. Just not by teleporting. :-p

As much as I agree with the fact that it works for other servers and such, I think EMC is losing touch with it's roots, in all due respect. I thought that we wanted to be different from other servers, because if we are just falling to the same things as every other server does, what makes EMC so special and worthy of outsiders joining?

We've been saying how we're a different server from the rest for years. We still are, and even with the update we still will be, but why plagiarize? It may sound foolish, but it doesn't seem as cowardish. I know there's a better way to word that, and that it's not getting my point across, but even though integrating small parts of another server seems very small, our main selling point is that we are different. That's what I paid for with my supportership for a while. We're just progressively losing that difference.

Credits =/= Challenge Tokens. Challenge Tokens will be redeemable for items and such, and Credits will go towards perks (I think?). If someone has a 150 day voting streak, that is pretty awesome and I think they totally deserve getting Credits for their contribution. Same for other ways of indirectly supporting EMC without using money.

Then you should reward them with rupees or exclusive items, which EMC is already doing. A second currency just isn't needed

They already are rewarded with that, but why is a second currency so bad? Why force them to get preset rewards when a separate currency system can be used so that the player being rewarded can choose from a variety of items? The overall feature may look like a feature from other servers, but EMC is going to put its own unique twist on it.

Edit: My wording is weird, Aikar did a better job of it up there ^^^

Ya know what, all I have to say anymore is Flying Creeper MiniBoss. That's it I just give up :U

1. No, I would hate being able to teleport 50,000 blocks out. It would ruin the economy (which is already a pile of ashes for all I care) and I would much rather have to sit in a minecart in the nether for a half hour.
2. Yeah, everyone getting TNT would be hectic. However, you stil have to pay to get it. It you have to vote for 18 trillion years to be able to. Both would prove you are a loyal member of the community and won't go grief someone's city (which will be able to be protected).

So not only a second, but a third currency? That is just confusing to a lot of players. "How do I know how much money I have?" "Rupees, Tokens or Credits?" "Well.. the one I can buy things with" "Rupees or Tokens?"

As for the empire teleporting idea, I think it's a bit off as well. Just because someone spent time mining resources, that shouldn't mean that they get a free ride home? As you said, "Frontier Empire Outpost teleporting will not change anything compared to whats already possible with the wastelands," that doesn't make much sense.. you can't "teleport" from any spot in the wastelands in the first place. Also, on a more personal note, I don't see why anybody would be needing to go to town to sell their resources from the wild anyways, because they already have the wastelands available?
->Guy #1 from wild grinder teleports into town, sells his objects, returns to base.
->Guy #1 continues using grinder, teleporting to the town, selling his items, and repeating.
->Guy #2 from wastelands grinder teleports into town through the outpost, sells his objects, returns to mine.
->Guy's #2 grinder gets reset. Can still teleport to town, but doesn't have a 24/7 grinder to teleport to.

See the difference?

If you like player suggested ideas then you should also take in it spawning in ignited TNT, spontaneous explosions, and random Enraged Creeper spawns. That's all I have to say about my new future pet

Perhaps plagiarize isn't the correct term, but there are so many servers that use more than one currency, and it is confusing as magnets. On other servers, you can earn credits. Those credits are used to gain your popularity/item receiving/getting things (in general). The point of this is that we are planning to make a second (or third?) currency that is not meant for trading. It is not meant as an actual currency, but it is meant for giving players things for doing things. That doesn't really help the economy, because there are certain players that will go to hell and back just to get tokens/whatever currency there is, then there are other players who casually enjoy the game not for the competition. Only lately has EMC become extremely competitive, and it is fairly disappointing. The addition of these new coins or WHATEVER the heck they are, will alienate a bunch of players that play for the experience, not the money or the fame.