What am I getting for my money?

[Gablak]

What? Braziers dont react on the crimes done on a town claim?

they do

Phew got worried there.

[Glennfinnan]

Griefing protection - that pretty much sums it up.
All the other things, like vchat are not really necessary to have.
And I'd rather sink some massive amount of silver into a claim without any daily drains any day if it was only safe from declaiming.

[Sevenless]

Unless it got fixed, braziers will be controlled by the townclaim first. So if you tick off the town claim, the braziers on a personal claim will go after you, even if that's your claim. The town claim will also drain you right through Pclaim.

These were all reported in pre-com though. I'm sure at least some have been fixed. The upkeep of a non-expanded town claim is quite manageable for an active player.

[staxjax]

Now that the crime has changed, different claims also give you seperate crime debuffs. If you have a village claim, all of the crimes committed will stack on a single debuff. A raider could hit up multiple personal claims, and split his crime debuffs so they wont last nearly as long.