Can a GM remove unused hearth fires?

[bluefuzz]

My problem is we've already got our village going, palisade and everything, and within the last couple weeks have had 30-40 new characters spawn in our claim. Tried helping them out at first but its gotten out of hand. I thought maybe they were spawning off of a HS, so had everyone change theirs and destroyed all the Hearthfires. Next day, 5 more hearths. I can take care of them no problem, but if its new players spawning I feel pretty bad for them.

[Stormfeather]

Um, re: the starting area in the wiki:

"The trapdoor will allow you to, if any are availible, spawn at a Charter Stone of a Village. "

So it sounds like they're spawning there BECAUSE it's a village, and they're new.

[bluefuzz]

Don't have a charter stone yet, no copper, and even before the village claim was up they were spawning in the personal claim.