Elytras in SMP server

IMO, no.

Trains are cool, yes, but if you just need to travel a certain amount of distance where walking is too much and taking trains is too inconvenient, what do you do?

It sounds like a sure way to ensure you continuously lose players

And doing this discourages exploring. What if the player wants to check out a new part of the world that doesn’t have the train system? Do they walk there?

that might have been a good argument
if we forget horses exist
if we forget boats exist
if we forget happy ghasts exist
if we forget that some limitations are not as annoying as you imagine them to be

you can work with SO MANY alternative travel methods it's insane

hell, you can even give saddles and horse armor attribute bonuses for things like speed

Yea

I considered making stuff faster

The trains mentioned above for example

+ i noticed that tectonic tends to make big rivers that stretch across multiple biomes

So the player can use boats

Aaaaand

There is the trident

With that flying enchant

Forgot its name

riptide

That’s just a pathetic counter argument

Seriously, who’s getting to their stables, taking a horse out, riding 500 blocks through terrain, arriving at a random place, and digging a hole for it?

Boats are cool, but if you want them to be viable (for non water based travels), ice paths are needed. So why that when create train tracks are easier to build?

Happy ghasts? Right, but op is running create on fabric, meaning they don’t have access to these (create fabric only goes up to 1.20.1 last time I checked)

These limitations aren’t annoying? Try it yourself

What you are describing is like a scenario where someone thinks cars are cooler than planes, so they outlaw air travel entirely

Also remember all of these can coexist. Being able to fly around with an elytra doesn’t mean nobody would build ice boat tracks if the destination is far.

The only way I can think of to “force” people to use the alternatives might be to nerf the durability of elytras (or speed up durability drain)

Also since op mentioned large rivers, horses? Really?

My point is that you have to cater to all sorts of personalities. If there are train enthusiasts, they might take trains over elytra, but other members who are not into trains all that much might use alternative travel methods that make sense to them.

Try it yourself

I have been playing with the end off for years now

I don't preach what I don't practice

bold of you to assume I’ve never tried riding a horse to travel back to where I died… 3k blocks away

I use create fly which is updated to the latest versions