Author Topic: Have dynamic tax rates instead of hard tax rates  (Read 10295 times)

Indirik

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This seems to be contradictory to the entire idea of light-weight play.

Investing twice as much time should not yield twice as many returns. Or even close to that much.
Lightweight for the player does not necessarily equal lightweight for the character. It's just as easy to log on and follow orders, requiring no more or less time investment on the player's end, than it takes to log on and hold a just court. Same player time investment, but the holding court every turn (or do buro work/police work) allows you to run a higher tax rate. Your character invests more time in the region, and thus can get more out of the region.

So if you want to sit there and babysit your region, you will get more gold out of it. You as a player probably won't be spending any more time at it. But your character will be spending lots of time sitting around doing not much of anything.
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