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

[Mark Moss]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 18:27 +0300, LilWolf wrote:
> Tom Vogt wrote:
> > Wait until you see offers of 50 or 100 gold a week. Some regions can 
> > afford that.
> >
> 
> On Beluaterra no one is going to accept an oath that's 50 gold because 
> people are used to getting at least 70-100 gold in taxes. My character 
> offered oaths worth about 70-80 gold and still had a tough time finding 
> knights. My other character has an oath that brings her about 90 gold if 
> the region gets a full 100% production week.
> 
> Of course, that puts some rural regions in a very tough spot since they 
> can't afford to make offers that anyone would accept and there aren't 
> enough people on Beluaterra to make people think of smaller offers 
> because the wealthy regions can provide for most if not all.

Either:

1. These rural regions all go rogue due to neglect and lack of nobles to
tend to them, or

2. The realm decides the region is imporant enough (due to resources,
strategic location, etc.) to subsidise its maintenance.

Mark Moss



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