Estate effiency

[Telrunya]

An empty Estate only collects half taxes yes.

I'm a bit confused to what Foundation said, but if I understand it right with Penchant's comment, it still is affected by its efficiency. So a 90% vacant estate would collect 100 * 0.9 (efficiency) * 0.5 (vacancy) = 45 gold, while wildlands would generate 50 gold for the Lord. Is that right? If so, wildlands would generally be more efficient than vacant estates, and never worse. Perhaps vacant Estates should be treated as wildlands, as I erroneously believed was the case.

[Penchant]

If you create an estate with efficiency 100%, even if it is empty, it will still have efficiency 100%. Just the gold produced minus the lord's share is wasted.

An empty Estate only collects half taxes yes.

I'm a bit confused to what Foundation said, but if I understand it right with Penchant's comment, it still is affected by its efficiency. So a 90% vacant estate would collect 100 * 0.9 (efficiency) * 0.5 (vacancy) = 45 gold, while wildlands would generate 50 gold for the Lord. Is that right? If so, wildlands would generally be more efficient than vacant estates, and never worse. Perhaps vacant Estates should be treated as wildlands, as I erroneously believed was the case.

It would be with a 90% vacant estate and 25% lords share, 100 * 0.9 (efficiency) *.25 (lords share)= 22.5 gold based on what Foundation said.

[Telrunya]

No, that doesn't happen. A vacant Estate only collects half taxes, and sends that directly to the Lord. From the game:

"Also, vacant estates will only collect half of the expected tax, but send everything they collect to you directly."

[Penchant]

No, that doesn't happen. A vacant Estate only collects half taxes, and sends that directly to the Lord. From the game:

"Also, vacant estates will only collect half of the expected tax, but send everything they collect to you directly."

I said based on what Foundation said, 22.5 gold is the outcome. I didn't say that is what happens or what the game says.

[Telrunya]

Yeah, I'm just saying that's not how it seems to work.

[Chenier]

half of... what's expected. So is that half of 100%, or half of 90%, of the efficiency of the vacant estate is 90%?

[Foundation]

My previous post was wrong. Rob is correct, half of whatever is collected from an empty estate or wildlands goes to the lord.