Generous taxes from newly TOed regions

[JPierreD]

Luria Nova recently TOed some regions, among them Aveston. With 725 peasants out of 8300 possible, almost starving, at 'Stopped' production with no knights nor lord, it produced 488 gold for the Duke. A little too good to be true, right?

[Chenier]

Luria Nova recently TOed some regions, among them Aveston. With 725 peasants out of 8300 possible, almost starving, at 'Stopped' production with no knights nor lord, it produced 488 gold for the Duke. A little too good to be true, right?

The first tax. That's gold that had accumulated over a potentially large period of time. Happens sometimes with regions just TOed, especially on Dwilight.

[JPierreD]

The first tax. That's gold that had accumulated over a potentially large period of time. Happens sometimes with regions just TOed, especially on Dwilight.

Won't complain then.  ;D

[Shizzle]

The first tax. That's gold that had accumulated over a potentially large period of time. Happens sometimes with regions just TOed, especially on Dwilight.

If the region was rogue, who the hell would have collected those taxes? Apparently the "minor nobility" that was there didn't do a very good job (minimal production), so I don't think they would. And if they would have done so, they would certainly not have kept all that gold stored, ready to be picked up by a realm that seizes power in their region.

[Phellan]

If the region was rogue, who the hell would have collected those taxes? Apparently the "minor nobility" that was there didn't do a very good job (minimal production), so I don't think they would. And if they would have done so, they would certainly not have kept all that gold stored, ready to be picked up by a realm that seizes power in their region.

I always had the image of the tax collectors coming around and just. . .taking the savings of the peasants :D  Cause they haven't been paying taxes so the collectors just go "Oh hey. . .you shouldnt really have this much money as a peasant."

[Chenier]

The peasant commune collected voluntary contributions from every peasants as a freedom fund.
The nobles just confiscated it all when they arrived.

Think of it as you like. Without this mechanic, colonization in Dwilight would have been a lot harder. It was hard enough already.

[Bedwyr]

This is one of the reasons people so jealously guarded colonization and expansion rights.  If someone else did a colony in a city you wanted, you miss out on a lot of accumulated gold when you go for it later.

[Shizzle]

Wow, I didn't know any of that. This really makes a lot of sense now :) Damn.

(I would have had my character denounce the validity of region claims if I had known that!)