Make a town with rentable houses/player ran shops#36727

The town would be heavily protected by NPC guards, but could be taken over by anyone brave/strong enough to raid it.

Houses/shops would cost scrap as upkeep.

This would give solo players/smaller teams a fair shot to compete with zergs.

Have the town keep track of every player’s reputation, that way if players living there decided to venture outside the walls, then they would have to think twice about just killing every random person they see on sight, because if they murder, and/or raid someone with a good reputation, then there will be a cooldown for which they won’t be able to return to the town, until it has expired

This could make Rust a more immersive rpg experience, rather than everyone just murdering everything/and blowing everything up in sight.

Although, players will still have the freedom of doing so, of course.

This already exists in the form of player villages which are on like literally every server. All i see coming from this is just exploit after exploit.