[Discuss] taxes & co

[ENDe]

> > Or, make it so the more you send to the realm, the more unhappy the
> > people. Nobody likes to pay taxes... but the effect is made worse
> > when you know that it's not even going back into your own community.
> > In the context of the feudal community, I'd say it'd be a powerful
> > incentive to keep money more localized if sending it to the realm
> > essentially worsened the effect of taxes. Maybe you can support 15%
> > taxes if you send 1% to the realm, but bump it up to 5%, and you
> > better drop your taxes to 11 or 12%. Those are just random numbers
> > pulled out of my, eh, rectum, of course, but it's the principle that
> > matters.
> >
> 
> Hm. I really, really like that suggestion.
> 

A penalty even when only sending 10% of the region income to the realm...
well. Who's the highest liege? Tell me? When the King, Pontifex, Prime
Minister, Chancellor is in a region the moral rises and the people feel
happy. Why? Because this person represents their land, the highest authority
they know and stands for an ensured future. 

And now when they only sent 1/10 of their income to their beloved ruler,
they start to hate him and want to rebel? This makes sense indeed. If you
don't like realms any more, just delete them. We will have dozens of Duchies
and everything will be alright again, or?  No realm, no council, no
problems?

Why do I have still the option to sent gold to the realm when it is punished
soooo heavy that it's like suicide for a region? It burns gold, it's hated
and right now not of much use, so just delete the option and everything is
alright. And when on it, drop the option for Duchy shares as well because
they are also bad for a region. Please don't act as if we have a choice of
how to handle the new taxes, there isn't a real option. If you want working
regions you have to follow the "guidelines"... 

Please, at least give us some sort of buffer, for example you can send 10%
of the regionincome to the realm without penalty and give it an exponential
increase so with 50% realmshare the region will revolt within days. This
would leave 80 to 90% of the gold in the region and even when a region only
earns 100 gold, the realmshare would at least be noteworthy. 

And next time a fair warning would be nice, our region stats keep bouncing
up and down with every new feature implemented. How are we supposed to
rebuild a realm this way, how to wage war? If we march into battle we have
to turn around twice a week to look after the regions again because of such
changes. 

~

In the meantime could you tell us how we are meant to play this game so you
don't need to introduce new "solutions"? To adopt for one new tax system per
week is kind of annoying and what's killing wars right now is the steady
changing environment... 

With best wishes
michi



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