AU Fresh Start - Primordial - Town Upkeep is Insane and Taxes Are Exceptionally Low

[ShinkawaShouichi]

Serverwide - Town Tax Collection and Upkeep appear bugged. All town upkeeps are insane and every town on the map is losing copious amounts of gold.

• What is your character name in New World: Deaf Gun

• What server/world did you experience your issue on: Primordial (AU)

• Describe the issue you are experiencing: Every single owned territory is earning 3-5k gold in taxes and the upkeep is 25k to 50k per town. The amount of taxes being collected (even in WW and EF) is exceptionally low. Furthermore taxation rates CANNOT be modified.

• Is this a bug? (If this is an exploit, please follow the steps here: BUG

• (if a bug) How did the issue affect your gameplay: Every company on the map is sinking tons of gold into upkeep, no benefit to owning a territory (i.e. its a massive loss)

• (if a bug) Were you able to recover from the issue: No, we are having to fund the gold from our personal wallets to keep the upgrades in place.

• (if a bug) Please include a screenshot or video of the issue that you have experienced:
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• What are the steps to reproduce the issue as you experienced: Broken Game Mechanic. These are just two examples of towns.

• When did this happen? - Since fresh start sever launch last week. Only noticed it now since we are finally seeing the numbers.

[ShinkawaShouichi]

As a further note - taxes seem to be 1/10th (10%) of what they would normally be on main branch servers. I did speak with other town owners/companies and they expressed the same sentiment I have here (taxes low, upkeep high).

[JakeL]

@ShinkawaShouichi

Furthermore taxation rates CANNOT be modified.

This is not a bug, but rather the new tax changes. We’ve been talking about this for a good month now but they don’t seem to think it’s broken. More details here:

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[ShinkawaShouichi]

The devs are actually insane. Sinking that much gold early game is too much for fresh starts. Theres literally no reason to own a territory since the investment isnt worth it anymore and theres not enough gold generation or gold to upgrade the towns to get the money needed. Drops are the meta then…

Main line servers are fine since they already have upgrades and gold. Fresh starts are doomed if they do nothing.

[Prasinos333]

That’s what I keep saying… but there are some who think you should invest hundreds of thousands of coins into a territory just to lose it before you make any of that back. The model is not sustainable and doesn’t work for anything other than the current “Legacy” server economy.

[Mr.Jenx]

This is a major problem on Fresh Start servers.
We are experiencing this too on Jormundgandr, and we are close to a point where simply upgrading is closing in to being impossible, and the economy will go into a stop, because people cant craft what they want / need to craft.

The developers need to fix this NOW.