With Essentials finaly having a non-cutting edge build that supports UUIDs, the servers are entering the final phases before launch. Probably tommarow advertizing will begin for the Creative and Survival aspects of the proxy, with Kit and Factions comming soon enough.
The shear size of the survival server brings about some concern however. As has been noted multible times in this thread by several people, the lack of the old RuneCraft teleports has a serious impact on being able to visit others. There is spawn in the menu and there is /home, but these still limit you to where you live and a community center. Akalabeth is working on the rail and JC and Mongoose have helped donate, but the size is still prohibitive to being able to get around even if the rail was finished in some reasonable amount of time.
This will end up being a serious problem when new players arrive. This is not a PvP server, there is no reason to limit mobility as heavily. On the other hand it is survival, so teleporting anywhere for free is out of the question. So I propose an idea that I'd like to run past the people who have played on this server for a while.
Players capable of buying warps.
Being survival I do not want to ruin a perfectly good server with a horrible economy plugin, and I do not want to pull from your limited resources by asking for gold or anything like it. And forget paying money, that would never go over well. Instead, players would use things called "Warp Tokens".
Players would earn said tokens by playing on the server. Once every half hour, an announcement runs that lets players know they can use the /menu to claim some tokens. The amount is not dertermined yet. These tokens would be used to have access to the warp menu, which would allow players to pay the price of the warp to go there instantly. Some places *cough*sandwich'sisland*cough* would cost more than others.
Players would also be able to buy slots on the warp list with the token. A large number of them to encourage playing on the server, but within reason. Players may be limited in the number of warps they can buy, but it would certainly be more than one. Players would be allowed to chose the name (within reason) and the item to represent it (assuming that item works) as well as a small description. Moving warps will be cheaper, but not free.
There would of course be a command to tell you how many tokens you have in reserve.
I still encourage the rail and would like to see it used, but sometimes it isn't enough as you've all expressed. This is not Runecraft, and it's not something you can spam. Nor is it something that would be limited to the richest players. I think this would allow for a fair way to move around faster as needed without taking too much away from the survival aspect.
So what do you guys think? I would give each of you at least one warp to start everyone off, but after that it's fair game for everyone.