I have a simple suggestion: make all player-made locations ( tents, bases ) visible for everyone, if they come near it, until the next wipe.
reasons: wasteland is not harsh enough, there is a huge mess with caps right now, people lost all their life savings and became very, very pissed off. the rich have millions and the poor have nothing. poverty, hunger and frustration coused them to search for food, goods and caps all over the wasteland. people became so desperate that now they dare to enter abondoned camps and heavily guarded strongholds.
and yes, this is a serious suggestion. let's try it for some time for the sake of betatesting.
what do you think?