Trickster mentioned to me that currently sv_pure 2 is not possible without a huge performance hit, but that will change in 2.25. It possible to a have some official clarification on that? Also I would like to see that the mod it self enforce sv_pure 2 like Zombie!Panic. to protect players from material cheating.
As far as I know, sv_pure 2 cannot be used because Empires is not distributed on Steam. You can use sv_pure 1, but it will take a while to hash all the files when you start the server. When Empires is on Steam, the files will be pre-hashed for quick server booting.
