Well, to a point. If someone asks you about a server that's one thing, but if your empire is just a sign with an IP and you are telling people to join for an IP then we will probably still ban the heck out of you.
The donation system in empires is separate from the rest of the server. Empires costs a lot of money monthly to maintain, so monthly payments are really the only valid option for sustaining it.
When will Empires be back up? and I dont see anything about Donating somewhere... How much do we need to pay monethly?
Woah woah woah, wait hold on let me get this clear, if I for example buy the premium thingy for the empire we have to pay monthly too?!?!?
The server maintains itself with the donations from ranks; Empires can't do that. As you probably have seen it's 80$ monthly or around there for the final Empire. That means if we gave it to a timeless for free, in 3 months we'd start to lose money and eventually go into the negative. Yes. All payments are made as subscriptions. These Empires cost a lot monthly to sustain which is why we charge subscriptions instead of single payments.
It depends on how many pluggins / player slots you want available on your Empire, if you want the End/Nether, etc.. The prices can be found here: https://empires.buycraft.net/ Edit: Yes @Hasan
I don't see Minetime being able to sustain this. I mean you don't even get an IP. If at all you may be able to at the start but after a few months people won't renew their plans. $80 a month is a lot. Not trying to be mean I want it to work but i don't see it happening Goodluck though