People seem to disagree with player count requirement to make a settlement in the first suggestion (which is ironic due to settlement being defined as "a place, typically one which has previously been uninhabited, where people establish a community.") ,, so, maybe rank requirement on /rankup would force players to actually learn atleast some mechanics before creating a town, in my opinion i would go pretty high with the requirements so it cant be just grinded up in a day and thus weeds out players who were going to quit anyway, but it can also be as low as Explorer, better than nothing.


Short: Set a rank requirement for town creation.