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All the other NPCs are there but all shops are empty or there are just random citizens freezing in one place. There is no one to sell anything and no one to buy anything.

Where are all the shop keepers?! Shark has no shop keepers either!

There are also no shopkeepers in Clownsteady. However the trading outpost between Shark and Clownsteady has an "outpost boss" who is able to sell some trading bags and a couple of trade goods. But the medic npc isn't there, and I feel like it's missing a second trader. Eyesocket is also a ghost town (and most the structures have lots of terrain inside of them in that town).

Edit upon further inspection of the world, EVERY town eventually turns to a ghosttown, no guards, shops, or anything.

I have the same issue too. Clownsteady empty, Shark empty. Brink was empty for a time, and I had to Create new game import characters with no buildings two or three times to get them to show back up, will check the outpost.

Edit: Also only have the outpost boss for a shopkeeper, no one else.