Feature Request: Royal chest and granary

[Foundation]

I was talking to Foundation... your post just got in the way.

Gasp, and here I thought you agreed with me!

[Indirik]

Sometimes, but not this time.

[vonGenf]

Whats wrong with allowing ruler to send a percentage of their income to council members? The old tax system had it and I never understood why it was removed.

Neither do I in fact. Anyone know why it was removed?

[Anaris]

Neither do I in fact. Anyone know why it was removed?

Well, for one thing, the tax system has changed about 375 times since then.

...For another, in most of the intermediate incarnations, in most realms, the Ruler ended up being pretty darn poor. If he split his income to the rest of the Council, he'd have practically nothing.

[Indirik]

Except that now the ruler can just crank up taxes and make as much as he wants. (Or the realm will allow him to get away with.)

[Charles]

Sounds good except it has to be a set percentage, not an actual amount.

Ok, so apparently I need to work on being clearer.  By set amount, I meant set percentage. 

[Penchant]

Well, for one thing, the tax system has changed about 375 times since then.

...For another, in most of the intermediate incarnations, in most realms, the Ruler ended up being pretty darn poor. If he split his income to the rest of the Council, he'd have practically nothing.

If you give the ruler control with no minimum, he simply not pay them if he doesn't want to because it lessens his income too much, though I don't know of any realms that the ruler makes less than 300 gold a week.

[Foundation]

300 with 50 to each council member is only 150, not even a city knight's level. -_-

[Indirik]

Raise taxes!

[Penchant]

Raise taxes!

Or decide they don't all deserve money! Or rotate who gets what each week!

[Foundation]

Rotating is the same as just decreasing to insignificance, like 10 gold per week.

[Penchant]

Rotating is the same as just decreasing to insignificance, like 10 gold per week.

Its not the same, though they would likely get just as much gold.

[Charles]

I would just be selective on who gets a portion.  The banker only needs some if he is able to buy for regions.  The general only needs any if he is seen as a battle front leader and so needs a larger unit than his estate can afford.  I can't actually think of any reason for the judge to get any, other than prestige for having the position.
So it all depends on how the realm functions.

[Foundation]

Its not the same, though they would likely get just as much gold.

That's just pedantic arguing. We are talking about gold amounts, are we not?

[Penchant]

That's just pedantic arguing. We are talking about gold amounts, are we not?

Its not the same because 10 gold a week is pretty useless, but 50 gold when i actually need it can be of value. I don't see that as pedantic. Yes, it might come out to similar amounts, but the larger amount at once give actual usefulness unlike only giving 10-20.