I respect your opinion, but I strongly disagree the echest is a very powerful and strategic tool, but the chest has the same effect camping wise. Thank you for your time, but i believe that this message was unnecessary and poorly thought through. ~Ender
Believe me, this is nothing like the chest. A chest means you can store gear at your own base (or any other unoccupied base), accessible to anyone (and therefore can be blown up by anyone in battle with TNT, or they can just take the gear for themselves).
With an enderchest you can midcamp and farm as many diamonds as you can, and if you are close to death, you pop an enderchest, store your diamonds in it, then die and respawn at base having lost nothing. Nothing. Try doing that with a chest, your enemy will just pick it up, and you also won't have anything waiting for you at your base.
They are NOT the same thing unfortunately.
Please apologise for this, quite frankly, offensive suggestion. Eggwars gurus like Karma and myself mean no harm, but we violently object to your current views.