With the current state of Towns and Quests, it should be trivial to make enemy towns not necessarily hostile, still allowing you to perform quests and collect rewards, without actually managing its Labors. Capturing it would still be a bonus as it won't spawn dangerous Incursions anymore.
In doing that, a review of Incursion captures would be necessary: a Town wouldn't want to necessarily limits access to Shops and Inns (and the game is already doing this as an ad-hoc necessity for the starting Town). The easiest way to approach this would be to simply not have Incursions capture Locations inside their own territory but that wouldn't solve the ad-hoc situation mentioned.
With the current state of Towns and Quests, it should be trivial to make enemy towns not necessarily hostile, still allowing you to perform quests and collect rewards, without actually managing its Labors. Capturing it would still be a bonus as it won't spawn dangerous Incursions anymore.
In doing that, a review of Incursion captures would be necessary: a Town wouldn't want to necessarily limits access to Shops and Inns (and the game is already doing this as an ad-hoc necessity for the starting Town). The easiest way to approach this would be to simply not have Incursions capture Locations inside their own territory but that wouldn't solve the ad-hoc situation mentioned.