What a bad suggestion,10 residents for claims. I agree people like me make 1 person towns because having 20 residents asking for stuff all the time is annoying also ruins town defences and takes more space. I build big building,I have my own fleets,my autonomies and geopolitics. There should be other encouragements and not ooga booga remove players from town.

Used to have a town with 40 resident and 10 active early n2,they all became dissinterested on the server and went to play League,not my fault the town became ghost town and ever since I've been a nomad

Having residents has very little benefits and they wont stay in town even if u recruit them they will play 3 min and leave. If you recruit them it will take MONTHS to integrate them in the SERVER and WARS which make them interested. The server is built this way that if you recruit newbies they will die in wars ASAP so mayors and kings and whatever other leaders,simply have 0 profit in keeping new players. It's very rare to find golden newbies that grind or actually dont qd in pvp battle or use redstone very well.

Out of all the time I've spent on server I found very few capable people and distributed them to make their own towns,some still play today

Should that matter? 1 guy towns shouldn't be a thing anyways, resident don't have to be good to play, it's a game.

This is a really bad suggestion

honestly, having 1 person base and your own fleet and all that can fit inside someone elses town, i get the problem you see with new people being very much useless, and most of times a burden, but, that is only caused because all the capable people decide to make a town of their own, because you know, they can, who stops them? imagine all the good people staid in your town and simply decided to be in charge of specific thing, like "town staff" , or if you were inside someone elses town and you were "town staff" so you didnt have to worry about recruiting and keeping people happy but you could still have the authority to organise firing-squad zeppelin raids, or ability to make a shop which will be situated in crowded area, no matter how useless newbies might look, they still are willing to grind stuff if they can sell it, i had entire dubs of gunpowder grindned up collectively by new people alone, there is actually no downsides to coming together as a community if it is not gonna be 1 capable person mass recruiting total newbs who might not even have interest in the server, and if they do get interest and learn mechanics a little, they just leave and make their own town, because, now they can be in charge, why not, its that easy.

also, only argument against this i could see is very hard start because you can get raided, maybe it would be better if towns could only make 1 claim untill ther player count is 5, or 10, but since camps basically exist for stuff like that, it maybe wouldnt change anything