From the pins on discord
Caspian ☁02/03/2018
Hi Folks,There's some question about Guild/Villager tokens. So let me add something to be stickied. Villager / Guild tokens - or really any token system we have, are designed to spread the financial resources among the members of an organization or settlement, rather than requiring all the costs be eaten by the leaders. Or worse, requiring people to send money over the internet to each other.
As a result, there is nothing that can be acquired through tokens that CANNOT be acquired without. The one exception - as we want to encourage the growth of large communities, we may award secondary benefits for having a large number of tokens from a large number of community members. This isn't a result of the tokens themselves, but a result of us adding motivation to encourage you to grow your settlements and organizations.
So as a general rule, never feel the need to acquire tokens for yourself, nor to acquire tokens on multiple accounts to send to yourself. The number of tokens required for the secondary benefits are tailored toward a range of token counts from the smallest to the largest. So - if you want to grow or customize your package, settlement, or organization - obtain EP for yourself. If you want to grow someone else's settlement or organization, give them tokens until you can't give any more. Then switch to EP gifting.