Events on civilization

Being a newer player to the server(with donor kits), I think the pressure plate freebies are pretty awesome, obviously reasons given above including surviving the night and being able to get further than a few hundred blocks from spawn, but it may allow people to explore mods they might otherwise ignore because they cost too many resources.....I know I am just now exploring the fun points of botania because I am not spending hours undergound with boring stone under me(granted my reason is donor kits..but still)

 

also it takes time to get the stuff and (as long as there isnt shiny involved) players will play for longer because they will have base ores but would not of come across shiny and other such ores as they were mining meaning they will have to go mining still which sort of makes this system fair and possibly expand game play