Will the new Gems system have staking rewards to vote on content? If not is their purpose moving forward to pay for premium features and to act as a donation token?
As for getting new users onto Hive please consider adding support for @hiveonboard's Open Standard for a Hive Account Referral System. This will allow new users to take advantage of Hive rewards instantly while rewarding users for referring more people to Hive.
Side note: The link for 'Tier 3 Premium Membership' takes me to a 500 page.
Alright, let's see if I can answer all of these: