[Discuss] Experimental taxes - math check pls

[Tom]

On 11/01/2006 06:12 PM, Christopher Clarke wrote:
>> "...for those who really can't resist."
> Local lords need this information to understand the tax system, and
> figure out how to change the settings.

Everything a local lord needs should be in the game.

>> "the game takes care of it and tells you the results where they are 
>> needed"
> No.
> First, militia costs were not included in the results when I wrote the
> original email. (Fixed now.)

On the page where the local lord sets his settings, there is a list to 
the right showing the tax estimate, taking all these factors into 
account in the proper order.


> Second, there is no mention of how much gold regions are sending to
> the duchy, and how this figures in.
That's simply not true:

Status Quo
(estimates, assuming weekly tax collection)
tax income    15 %    186 gold
militia cost        0 gold
maintainance cost        4 gold
net taxes        182 gold
to knights    9 %    16 gold
to duchy    10 %    18 gold
to realm    10 %    18 gold
your share    71 %    130 gold

This is what every region lord sees on his taxes page.


> Also, the "to duchy" part is still unclear. Where does this value go
> in the equation? I'm assuming that it is for all intents and purposes
> added to the city/stronghold tax  collection, and that all equations
> adjust accordingly?
Yes. The above list for a duke shows that to him (I think, I don't have 
a testing duke)