Valten21 wrote:a personal claim can be destroyed by a village claim.
Between this and access to crossroads, I think the OP has the answer he's looking for. If you play regularly, keeping the authority up on a VClaim isn't that hard. I was keeping 500k filled just by myself during w5. The trick is pushing more Charisma and Intelligence if you want a bigger claim. Make sure you log out wearing your +cha, +int items as well so when you log in, you get the authority bonus.
One downside to having just a Vclaim: animals still spawn on it, so make sure you and your friend at least have a good enough buffer area for personal claims so you don't log in staring down a bear or boar. Nothing like getting the UI to come up and active and finding your character laying on the ground KO or dead.

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