Purity of forageable items

[_Gunnar]

No, I'm referring to anyone weaker than you trying to settle anywhere remotely close to you. You simply can't allow settlements to gain a foothold in your area, you have to wipe them out with extreme prejudice as soon as you find them.

The point is your idea is discouraging peaceful coexistence of players, and what we really need in this game is incentives to be friendly to neighbours.

if boston didnt exist, you would get local newbies foraging for the local power. as it is, doesnt matter where the newbies are in relation to the large town

[DangerousLee]

No, I'm referring to anyone weaker than you trying to settle anywhere remotely close to you. You simply can't allow settlements to gain a foothold in your area, you have to wipe them out with extreme prejudice as soon as you find them.

The point is your idea is discouraging peaceful coexistence of players, and what we really need in this game is incentives to be friendly to neighbours.

I happen to have a superb idea that you may like about this. And the reason for you to want them to settle nearby is a 3 letter word and it starts with "t" and ends with "ax". TAX!. Owning a town would allow you to setup a tax on nearby claims (This idea will be developed in section Towns & Claims in a upcoming post). Thus you would receive money from said noob and that is with your legs crossed on top of your desk, how nice heh?

Now the noob could refuse the tax on his claiming stone, but then I would suggest you go full tilt with your idea.