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How? Hundreds of hours of research, development, and crying yourself to sleep over the smallest bug that you're overlooking.
Essentials is good for its purposes, but making an MMO in it isn't a great idea. I'd go with something more advanced and faster such as Unity, Unreal Engine, etc.