+1 It's a great idea. I do not know how feasible it is but could be really fun and a great addition to ECC

 

The only issue I can see from this is placing a nether portal in the nether and having the game create a new portal in the rising world might cause grief in a protected region. Otherwise if it's possible, I'm all for linking the rising overworld with a nether.

 

I don't think we need to change how the nether portals currently work for this idea to function. We could still only have the one nether portal that leads to this version of the nether, and then we just utilize warp applications like we have been.

 

+1 I could get so much fucking quartz this way :D

 

What if we have two nether worlds, one that never resets (and has the same feature usage as rising) and one that resets monthly (like we currently have). We had a legacy and rising world in the past on one server, so it is possible.

+1 I like the idea, although I don't think many people would actually create towns here if I'm being honest

 

Seems like it would be cool, provided that there aren't resource drops in the wild regions of the world.

 

That’s a good point. Maybe if we do make a second world for towns within a server, you would still need the survivor rank to enter the towns, or maybe code it that people without the survivor rank cannot even enter the wild regions (although that might be tough to code)

 

Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't you add a -g nonmembers entry DENY flag to __global__ (or another effectively global region) and add everyone with the survivor rank as a member using g:survivor?

 

This seems a little overkill honestly, I don't see a reason for it. I mean, yeah, people could "bypass" survivor with towns, but 85k+ towns vs 20k survivor doesn't seem like a big deal

 

Here is a good discussion on this topic: https://ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/2-0-would-you-like-a-non-reseting-nether.210812/

My response in that thread was this:
This idea is similar to the old 'aether' / 'sky islands' world we used to have. While the reformed Nether may attract attention in the beginning, I suspect many players will quickly lose motivation for their build projects and the world will just sit rather empty and abandoned much like the aether of old. I could see a small number of users working on projects in the nether but to me that does not justify a new world, especially when considering the confusion for new players surrounding our current worlds and their resets as they currently are.

In short - we have had a unique world similar to this in the past and it failed, history doesn't need to repeat itself. -1

 

There is really no need to make such a major change that would quite frankly require rewriting a million things we have set in place throughout our near 11 years of running on the system we have. Not even going to think it through in the slightest, as the first 30 seconds have already given me a headache.