You are in the middle of a vast desert, surrounded by wild beasts and unknown dangers. In old times, what you could do is to build up your own house, set up your own fence for protection. If you are lucky enough, you would find some allies.
Now, Ensemble Online provide you a chance to cooperate with friends, together you build better cities and form stronger alliance.

Since it's an open world real-time MMO game, will it take late comers hours or more to find a place for their own town? My suggestion is to be the aborigines!