Of course my reply was: "non"
Then from the same person: "That's not what I heard. The reason I asked was because we never get defenders in our *place*"
I very much believe that is exactly what you "head". Keep in mind that there are some players that have dim view of life in NS4 that goes something like this: "I have never seen that many defenders in our place so **they** have to be using exploits."
I stayed rather polite and matter-of-fact while in tell with this individual. However, I am now willing reveal to all exactly how the exploit works so that all can have as many epic defender as we get in Sleeth (AO Faction). I will give fair warning. Be very careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
So here we go:
First; get Zing to take every other faction's relic cradle out of the nice little temples, building or caves. Have him set it in the middle of town. So that when you get raided the attackers can take out guards at their leisure because the guards epic or otherwise are so spread out and are not crowded into a tight little area, like a small chamber, cave or room. Plus you have the added feature of them being so spread out and if you know what your doing, you can kill them off without getting swarmed. Not only that, with your cradle sitting in the middle of town there would be no more small and tight camp spots that can be jammed with multiple summons and spammed with all kinds of area effect spells to nail attackers.
Second; get Zing to take away all your jobs so that your character's have no boost to skills or stats advantage over any character coming out of Sleeth. You would be "just like us".
Third have Zing set up the teleport penalty the same as it is in Sleeth. Where, if your defending character(s) are parked within a 2 zone radius of the cradle they stand an extremely good chance of getting ported way out of town, slowed and in a fight just to get back to defend. Now the two zone area would include just about anyplace you stay inside the city, all bind points, shops, inns, temples, guild hall and the next zone over in any direction like our Dragon's eye, the Ancient Gate, the Feeding Grounds and the Slave Pits. So in order to park safely you have to be well outside the city. Oh and don't forget what happens to you guild mules if you happen to log in during a raid. Long walk back to safety with a level 1 slow moving pc.
And there you have it. Get all those conditions set and you too will have a ton of epic guards... sometimes.. and that's the -Slave- exploit. Straight up and straight forward.
Just think of the odds of spawning many epic defends with the cradle sitting in the middle of your own town. Every time you go in and out of a shop, temple, guild hall, the city itself, bind points etc, you respawn the zone. Unlike those poor poor factions that have their cradle inside a temple, cave, or room where the spawn gets triggered only when someone enters the area and where you have a mess of choke points that can be used to your advantage when you defend.
Now if our great exploit in Sleeth is not to your liking and your able to read, I suggest you have a look at a thread just 9 or 10 down from this one. Or use this handy shortcut to it
http://www.nsrealm.com/public/ns4/viewtopic.php?t=7837
and read what has been said, what was explained by Zing himself.
Just in closing. Feel absolutely free to demand from Zing the exact same conditions that are in Sleeth so that your faction too can exploit away to get more than 1 epic defender. In fact and speaking for every member of the Ancient Ones WE demand that you Demand that Zing set the same conditions in your own faction as described above so you too can have all those wonderful epic defenders. We really don't like it when we have such a great advantage over you.
My only request was to make them only spawn where I could actually reach them. Man, those guys take a long time to kill when they're up on a wall... 
Could you explain how this would work, Apokriphos?
