The Fall Of Dustpeaks

Many towns fall to ruin, but the majority of towns that do only do so because of inactive players. Dustpeaks is a very interesting scenario where a town collapsed despite having an active player base.
== Capitalistic Mindset ==
From the very start, Dustpeaks was a very capitalistic town. It's owners, XSweety and Jacob, were very good in business strategies and were able to make the town a financial power house on the server. However, this money mindset would eventually lead to fall of the town. Dustpeaks valued profit above all else and many of it's players adopted ruthless business strategies. Such as buying out other store's stock so they were the only ones selling a certain item, relentless end raiding so that they had full control of the elytra monopoly, bullying newer players into bad deals, threatening to kick citizens out of the town for selling an item to compete with the owner, etc. This made other towns view Dustpeaks negatively and many players grew resentful of the town, including its own citizens
== Bad Culture and Infrastructure ==
Despite being one of the wealthiest and populated towns, it's culture and actual infrastructure was really bad. Very few citizens were actually active. The town had very little farms and most of them we're outdated and inefficient. Utilities and farms like the casino were broken for weeks and the owners seemingly didn't care. Lower class citizens ended up having to build new farms. Meanwhile the wealthy owners would build giant diamond structures to flex their wealth. The town had very little restrictions on building so many people just built whatever they wanted. Many buildings barely resembled western architecture at all; It wasn't a very good looking town. The players were jerks, mainly Sodajar and the two owners. Sodajar practiced reselling and bullying new players. Applejuices was threatened to be kicked out of the town because he sold totems of undying at a cheaper price then Jacob.
==Location==
Dustpeaks' location was also bad. Being located in a mesa biome surrounded by ocean and desert, there wasn't immediate access to other biomes without having to fly very far. Dustpeaks was also the furthest from spawn at -7000. This made it difficult to live there since players would have to fly really far to get places. This issue was compounded by the fact that the town had very little farms, making it necessary to leave the town often to get supplies. Being this far out also made it hard to get foot traffic and Dustpeaks saw a decline in business when other towns that were closer to spawn had better deals. 
==Inactivity and Death ==
Around late August both xSweety and Jacob had gone totally inactive. Sodajar was banned from the server for reselling. The seemingly only active players, 3EyedFish, Applejuices, HungrySoviet, and bad_gamer all announced they were leaving the town. HungrySoviet and bad_gamer would join Summerhall while 3EyedFish and Applejuices would go solo. Ever since then Dustpeaks has been inactive. Not considered a ruin but not considered a town either.