you must have never afked in a town
I have, in matter of fact quite a lot, i was always able to defend myself and most of the times nobody bothered to attack me at all ( talking rarely is an option anyway ), as well it got real boring fast. Why do you need to afk in a town anyway?
Now think how is that possible, i have some friends, and i usually play with a character that can defend himself.
You talk about controlling while the ape-faction way to control is to leave the town empty. How can you control the town if you have no members inside?
How can anyone else control the town, if nobody else is in town? Someone else must come, reclaim the leadership of the town and convince the locals they are fit to do that. Use your imagination, the locals are loyal until someone else shows up.
But the thing is, these projects falloutdude speaks about are made out of pure goodwill. They provide interaction unlik any other, but are incredibly vulnerable due to the fact they aren't playing like ape factions. As you know ape faction has 24/7 war face on and kills everything that isn't a friend just in case.
I think players need to adapt to that, but seriously. Do something about it. Relying on 20 npc's that will do the job for you, is no solution at all.
You talk about controlling while the ape-faction way to control is to leave the town empty. How can you control the town if you have no members inside?
Apes don't socialize, it's their choice, how they want to play the game and not how someone thinks it has to be played.
