I've noticed empires has not been working for a very very long time can anybody give me some information on what is going on with empires?
There was an error with empires. Since the developer of the plugin is busy with his own server, there is nothing much that can be done. Although I have heard that it is planned to be repaired in the future.
Since the developer of Empires is working on his own server, there hasn't been any improvement to the Empires server. If you expect for Empires to be fixed, don't count on it. It will most likely be replaced by minigames that @Tyler has been working on...