Getting these newer blocks to be compatible with town masteries is definitely something that I would like to see at some point soon. With Minecraft adding all kinds of new stuff every single update, it's very important to keep this all up to date.
I think I agree with Crypt on this one. You shouldn't just be able to spam level your town up using a block that happens to give a really high leveling reward. Fixing stuff that doesn't currently level your town up is definitely moreso the direction to go with this.
I would agree with you, but isn't this the case for most everything else? Towns like Sandsete are inevitably going to have much higher building and excavation levels than a town like Euphoria or Astro that focuses mostly on PvP. It's also why they aren't capped at 50, but rather 100. Level 25 towns aren't supposed to be a common occurrence either, but rather an achievement. With the new Rivina updates, I would suggest you take a tile on there and convince other smaller towns with lower PvP levels to have some fun conquest with you. It's 10v10 which is still extremely doable without huge recruitment wars needed. With battlegrounds being readded, this should also help with town leveling.
town levels are impossibly hard to get by just playing minecraft. I cant imagine how you would get things like engineering levels without crafting thousands of jukeboxes or getting cooking levels without having to craft a million shulkers of bread. If people knew what types of things would get them levels, I'm sure more people would be encouraged to go out and spend some time leveling up their town.
I mean once the newer features of the game get fixed in town levels there really isn't a reason to tell people what exactly levels their town because pretty much everything will then level their town.
You're right. My quibble is that the difficulty of PVP leveling is a hard cap that forces you to adopt a PVP heavy playstyle, and that's not for many people, myself included.
I know I talked with FoxyBearGames about this. This is why I think there needs to be new levels added to towns with new rewards. If you add more levels to towns then there is more drive for people to log onto Loka for times other than PVP. I don't see a reason for towns to even necessarily be capped at levels. Why not let towns keep leveling up. This would be so cool if you could keep leveling up and for each level you get a percentage boost to your industries for example, or new buffs that make grinding towns worth it. Have benchmark levels that are goals for towns and when they hit it they get major additions to their town, for example an increased cap of hoppers or another town portal. These also have to be balanced so that players still have to grind.
The ideas that are currently in mind will definitely deliver on a lot of what you're saying here. To an extent some of this does exist already. For example, if you get any mastery level to 100 the tools in that industry don't get consumed. Now obviously that doesn't happen very often on the server as after a certain point leveling your town gets very hard, however it does exist. The idea that is in mind for modernizing this is essentially to be able to get small buffs and other cool little features for your town overtime as you accumulate levels above 25, which is quite similar to what you described. You do have to keep in mind this is all quite far off but I still think it's definitely worth talking about.
The problem with what is already implemented like the level 100 thing is with the difficulty reaching that milestone the reward is not significant enough. No singular town is past level 100 on anything. So it doesn't make sense that such a difficult thing to achieve would only give a town such a small reward.