You can use optifine if you dislike the rain and other features of vanilla minecraft. We have a pretty solid block logging system, so not having a town to protect your home should not be an issue. Also, the economy isn't meant to be anything like every other server out there. It's not supposed to be easy to make boatloads of cash in a short period of time. From past experience, having an easy economy ruins the point of having one in the first place. /wild can be changed to allow a larger radius of teleportation so you don't end up at someone elses home. There's also a teleportation system (/tpa <player>) That's not lag, most likely our anti cheating plugin thinking you're breaking blocks too fast because you have a high ping to the server. It can be adjusted to compensate for players like you, just needs to be brought to our attention.