Ares, I agree with most of these conclusions! I think the work is great and you’ve put a ton of effort, but there are some I dot agree with, mainly being phantoms and Warp Shops from Mall.
Warp Shop from Mall
Making a warp shop teleport from inside the mall is plain useless, there is already a warp totem right next to spawn which can be accessed by anyone with /spawn. This is just taking away from the already small number of mall shops <100.
Phantoms
I like the idea of phantom eggs because I feel that it wouldn’t cause as much lag as the thunderstorm idea. With an SMP server being up almost 24/7 there must be a couple of thunderstorms that people just miss because they are busy doing something else. This is going to cause a lot of lag due to the phantoms spawn rates and the number of players on at all times 50-80. I feel they would have to lower the cap of phantoms more if they wanted to implement this idea.