Port Royal is a default spawned villager town converted! So no! And those people need to be active all the time, like constantly working on it, as a team, Keep working on it @CrazyPirate1, maybe convert the houses to your own design, but a town means, someone travels there for a reason. I think the closet we have to a town was Reptarias city, they had a lot of active players at one point, now its a ghost town.
Comment if you think Port Royal should be a town. Spleef arena, Port, Cathedral, BOTM mansion, suburbs, market, fort, watch tower, houses, Embassys and all.