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

[Tom Vogt]

LilWolf schrieb:
>> 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.
>
> The thing is, the lords don't seem to care much for the most part. 
> Well, not until the region is 99% ready to rebel. Then they start 
> crying and then it's pretty much too late.

Where is the problem? That loser won't be lord again in that realm, so 
over a bit of time, the capable lords will rise to the top.

> The regions were complaining about taxes hurting production for many 
> turns(in Old Grehk) and very few of the lords actually did anything 
> until the banker ordered them to. I suppose that's because people are 
> used to the lords position being pretty care free. Hopefully it'll 
> change with time, but it is a problem at the moment.
It will change, mostly because once bankers use their taxes properly 
(i.e. to fill the government pockets), local lords will _want_ their 
region fine, because that's what their _own_ tax income depends o n.


> As for finding new nobles, you make it sound so easy, when in fact 
> it's quite difficult. Few people are willing to switch realms just 
> because a lord in another realm offered them a bit more gold(comes to 
> the issue of where the players want to play and no game mechanic will 
> change that). This is even more so true on Beluaterra where every 
> realm can offer quite a nice income for all their nobles.
Wait until you see offers of 50 or 100 gold a week. Some regions can 
afford that.




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