Prvate vs public town doesn't affect ai on override?

[RWild311]

On having narkos trap be taken over by skeletons once world condtions were met I could not get the town residents to not attack me if I went past the gates unless I first changed the original narkos trap to public.
I change the type from town_military to town_town and set it to public and that worked fine but until I change the original narkos trap to public the ai doesn't seem to recongize this. So is the is public setting not able to carry over on override or is there something else I needed to do different here?