I've been thinking this through, and I made some changes to my "ideal system:"
While the spawn is protected, unclaimed land is not. However, ores still do not spawn in he main world but rather in a seperate mining world, reset to a different seed on a schedule. If an area of land in the main world starts looking terrible, it is reset. The nether is the nether. It's not there to look good, so there is no need for it to be wiped. There are no advantages to certain groups.
Please, stop now and save some of your dignity.
Your "ideal world" is not realistic. Sure, it may sound good and all but sounding good on paper is completely different from it actually working in the game.
There is a reason we have the current add-ons/mods that we do right now. It is because they work. Wooty knows they work well, they are reliable, the towny creators are very committed and constantly release updates and are very efficient in updating towny quickly when minecraft has new versions/updates.
The mods that you suggested, although they likely do exist, they are probably not anywhere near the level of towny in terms of very few bugs, and not harming the server that it is implemented on. Most mods have negative effects on a server.
Wooty has found a system that works, and i think that everyone here can contest that it works damn well.
This whole post is about why your "ideal world" is in general bad for t9k. What I am still wondering, however, is how this has ANYTHING to do with whether or not we wipe the world. Even in your picture perfect minecraft world, you still can't update an already rendered map with new biomes in an update without running serious risk of messing a lot of stuff up. The map that you care about would be the one that people build on. It doesn't matter if there are no ores in the world to mine for, you still can't update the map with major biome changes without rendering a completely new map. Your perfect world can not possibly solve the problem of wiping maps for major updates. Therefore it has nothing to do with server wipes, so just stop...we have all heard enough about your suggestion.
Your suggestion does not belong in this thread. You should make your own thread in the minecraft survival suggestions forum.
https://uploads.team9000.net/survival/
. Just a warning though:
