Alternatively, what if instead peaceful towns could be plunder/occupation sieged sans explosions or ability to use cannons from within said town, allowing said town to be sieged for money if the residents attacked someone, but keeping the town from being directly damaged or fully harassed by soldiers as they cannot easily infiltrate said town or do harm to the residents if the residents do not wish to participate

so what your saying is basically just siege a peaceful town with no explosions

also defenders cant use cannons so they are defenceless

so what you are suggesting is that pvp nations loot the entire server of money and people cant use cannons to fight back

Just completely remove peaceful towns

no not everyone can pvp

There are plenty of ways to fight on ccnet, you don't have to use swords and pots, but even if you still don't want to fight and just farm/build the towny server can be accessed by clickeng on the selector at left of nations' one

7, towny is not identical to nations in every way -sieges
while i agree that peaceful claims need to be more heavily penalised, removing them outright rn would not do the server any good. (in my opinion)

Just basic things like "no enchantments", "no potions" would be a step in the right direction

You already have no envhants and no pots, but, due to the simple fact that you can actually have a peaceful and unpeaceful towns really near, those limitations are simply useless

people are abusing it though even during seiges and wars