I just think that there would not be many ‘renters’ willing to put in the effort, when they can just buy a cheap parcel off the market and own it/build it up themselves.
The alch is not decaying or anything, either, so whilst it feels nice to ‘do something’ and build a farm… small holders really are not losing anything by not doing that. They can simply hold the land for speculation in the future, or build up their land slowly.
I would love to see the Verse become less of a ‘ghost town’, but I’m not sure that is really done through farming/channelling anyway… because the gotchis come in for 10 seconds, do their thing and are gone. It is nicer seeing more installations throughout, though. But what I’d really like to see is Gotchis themselves hanging out in the verse. I believe that this would help in that regard : Turn Spillover back on using turkey/paampkin smash mechanics