There are so many dead towns taking up the majority of decent land in the server, many of which don't even serve much of a purpose other than to claimblock or just because the mayor doesn't want their town to fall. Unfortunately this means that there is almost zero opportunity for people to create new towns without either paying ridiculously high prices for existing towns or fighting a full blown claim-war over a recently-fallen town. Because of this, new nations struggle greatly and new players don't learn much about how to use the Towny plugin.

To address this, I propose that towns should start having increases in their upkeep in gradual increments. Something like 20% more upkeep if the mayor is inactive for over 2 weeks, 50% for 4 weeks, 100% for 6 or more weeks. This is to make nations prioritize active members as mayors and also to reduce some of the absurdly high hyperinflation that this server suffers from.

I do, however, think that forts should not have these penalties as forts are required for nations to exist and giving a fort to an active player can be a death sentence if they decide they don't like that nation for whatever reason.