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In my opinion, one man tribes are more of a griefing mechanic than a feature. It's begging for people to troll other tribes. Once again, in the future, this may not be much of a problem, but right now it is. If someone wants to troll you, they can just put their totem over nearby resources and make them completely worthless to you. For example, say you see a scrap pile, but you don't want your totem on top of it so you can have more open land to build on. So you put your totem in the field beside it. Then another tribe decides to troll you by putting their totem in the middle of a scrap pile and terraforms the entire thing. Now the resource hub that used to be a scrap pile generating thousands of materials an hour is a virtual desert.
Both of these have been testing thoroughly by my guild and we have confirmed and bug reported all of them. Assuming this is fixed by the next patch, this still doesn't prevent tribes from setting up right near your land and trolling you in some way, shape or form. .