[Discuss] Re: Regional Tax Rate in the New System

[Eric Kenseth]

On 7/2/07, Jonathon Taylor <jonathon.its.never.enough at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 02/07/07, LilWolf <bmdiscuss at lilwolf.biz> wrote:
> > Chuong Huynh wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/1/07, *Gias Kay Lee*
> <gsklee.at.battlemaster at gmail.com
> > > <mailto: gsklee.at.battlemaster at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     More interestingly, this recent implementation is rapidly ripping
> some
> > >     big realms apart; I've seen fringe regions of huge realms are
> > >     collapsing even at a regional tax rate of 5% only. Is this an
> > >     intentional design to eliminate empires?
> > >
> > >
> > > Examples?
> >
> > Old Grehk.
> >
> > Though I think it's partly due to a bug that was reported as fixed in
> > the bugtracker(Tom was looking for feedback whether it's actually
> > fixed). Still, the regions are getting hit very badly due to a
> > combination of not having estates(not enough players in the realm to
> > fill them all) and the lords not getting around to fixing the tax
> > rate(it seems buggy because it complains highly on a tax rate that was
> > just fine before the new system came along).
>
> It's harsh, but if a realm doesn't have enough nobles to run all its regions
> with estates. It's not the games fault, it's the realms fault.
> There are a plentiful of ways to get more nobles into a realm without having
> to rely on new players.

An idea comes to mind: Let the region lords take care of it. Its their
plot of land, they have to be the ones to find their knights. There
are plenty of places to look, Tournaments and Battlefields being some
of the better ones.

If there isn't enough nobles, then its each noble for themself. Lords
have to find the amount of tax that they'll have to give to get the
work they need, and the wise noble will play the field and see which
region will pay the best. And I'm not just saying in their own realm
anymore. There were a decent number of region lords at the Irombro
tournament, and I thought about seeing how much they would pay.

The food system never comes to discussion because the islands all
produce much more food then they consume. Well, knights  are the food
that will make a region thrive, and if you don't have enough, prepare
to pay or lose.


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