So another idea I had for the economy is something I've gotten from Realm of the Mad God, another game I play. The game is a bullet hell mmo sort of like gauntlet where you pick a class like wizard warrior paladin etc. and then you work to max your level, but stats aren't just raised by leveling, as you kill higher level enemies they drop potions that permanently boost your stats.

They have a trading system in the game and all items value is based completely on these stat potions. The reason the economy works is because the potions have their own value and the market is more like a stock market than anything. Prices go up and down with supply and demand and are influenced by how many potions and rare items are brought in.

I said in an earlier post something about emeralds and their flaws and I was basing it off of what I have seen in this game. I think if we picked an item that people would want more than just for a currency and made that the standard it might make the economy more stable, it would also put a limit on the currency as there would only be as much as people found/made. It would also mean that, like Jams idea, the total amount of currency would raise as people joined because they would then work to find/make their own naturally as a part of Minecrafting.

I still think Res' should be limited to just stopping other players if we are going try and raise the difficulty.

I think that other than the boss mobs and fire spread being on, there wasn't anything severely difficult about building except maybe supply gathering on this last map.

I am mainly a building type so I don't really care about the rest. But I haven't touched res this map merely because I don't feel the need to collect a garbage pile of money to res my giant build and then having to collect more of it to keep that res.

Also, I would like to add my suggestion of having some builder ranks so we builders can have it a bit easier in things like res and maybe other stuff. Last few maps haven't really been builder friendly!

Yea, you need to finish those tree things

I really don't think survival should be builder friendly. We had CMP up for months just for the purpose of enjoying your building and showing it off to others. Barely anyone came on CMP.

I disagree on that, there were quite some players on CMP during the time I've been able to moderate it properly, though, after the summer ended and I (and most likely everyone else) had to get back to school and work, it got less visited, which is a shame in my opinion because I think we had something nice besides SMP.
On the other hand, this is our main concern for our player base, we don't really get people from outside, meaning we rely on our own players within the community, who are busy during the non-holiday 'seasons' as you might want to call 'em.

-- I didnt really like the quests, mainly because you had to walk so far, even with speed boost it was far. And the quests were kinda boring as well. --

Maybe we introduce a new game/ event each weekend to keep numbers up. Like a weekly uhc, but it can be like sethbling's building game, or a spleef tourney and implement a donator rank where whomever donates have a special item that helps them in the type of event.

How do you feel about this?

Yeah, exactly as dolf said. The questing language is extremely powerful. If we had people who could create a story and then script some quests it would add a HUGE new element to the game.