After I decided to get more "friendly" with people, I decide to start on new players because I have not emotionally scarred them yet. I have done /newplspawn every time and they never spawn there... where do they spawn?
wait they automatically get a residence? Won't that create problems, such as the new player wishing to have a residence near their friends? And then they have no idea how to unclaim the residence, or so?
http://empireminecraft.com/threads/misc-updates-2-23-14.36545/ There is the update thread regarding it, your concerns might be best left there.