People can just always move to a different dungeon. ML faction is hardly boring. I see no one doing the morning sermons, or asking people to pray in order to receive blessings. All I see if a few dawnbringers going "we r dawnbringers" letting god knows what fly inside the church, and generally just standing next to an archway pretending to be a tree. A base is only as interesting as you make it, there is nothing saying that the Dawnbringers must stay at the church, hell, there's a wood of shadows literally 3 areas trans away from you, there's another abandoned fort 4-5 trans away from the church. The encounters and RP are there to be had. There is also nothing stopping people from holding events in-town, or even trying to clear the neuri out during the night so that the stragglers might live. The only reason stagnation exists, is if you let it. The DMs and aMPCs can only sdo so much, sometimes the players have to get off their arses and make something happen themselves.