That's because Unixmad paid certain staff which caused them to work more. I'm fairly certain the developers- Alpho and the other guy who I forgot the name of, definitely got paid which is why they they have some really high quality features.
Things that most staff wouldn't dedicate their time to as it takes a lot of time and effort todo- unless of course they were being paid.

"Well why doesn't unixmad pay era scripters so they can have good content like west"

Because era is already a functioning server, and doesn't need it to increase its playerbase. West was a new server which is why money was put into the developers to get quality content to attract more players. Obviously in the long run it hasn't really worked out as well but it still boosted their server on for awhile when it first game out.


If you think west is better, then go play west. Nothing is restricting you to play one server, if everyone shares your mindset then west would be the server that has all the players and not era.