I am definitely interested. I've had an itch for a multiplayer semi realistic civbuilding game since I started playing in the stoneworks Minecraft server. I've searched everywhere but I've never encountered a Minecraft server that satisfied the itch. This doesn't necessarily seem like it will go in a civbuilding direction but it still might scratch the itch anyway.
I've tried hosting a vintage story server on an sbc before and I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere in the command line the game going something like "no players are online, stopping clock". I'm sure it wasn't worded anywhere near like that but you get the idea, the game could already be doing the stopping time when no one is online thing by default.
Sorry for the formatting, I'm on my phone while taking a shit