Iād wager the vast majority of people in the game did not know this for the simple fact that the vast majority normally does not come to the forums or read patch notes. Iād wager that Amazon got a ton of in game bug reports the last two days on tax costs by a horde of very surprised people.
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Revert The Taxes back, I am guilds are not budging on the extreme Tax rate and I am not paying. This makes the game so much less enjoyable
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Well said imo and I m sure the majority thinks similarly.
I cant remember a comment of mods or even devs here in the forum to this issue. Many companies, which made millions out of AGS mistake and 90% tax refund, behave like aristocrats. Well, they dont have palasts, but they have loads of legendary stuff with perfect perks, because they dont care to spend our taxes.
An argument of the rich is, the ālower classā can use the infrastructure of the towns. But crafters dont earn money until they are high lvl or even 200. Therefore crafters not only spend enormous sums of money for the mats, but also using stations or buying materials. We pay so much tax before we can earn a cent by selling high lvl crafted items (unless it is junk). The rich have multiple income though. They get taxes (companies) x2, can easily craft with best conditions and sell legendary stuff, house taxes and they can afford (former) expensive expeditions to get best loot also.
What do devs and/or mods think about this system? Did AGS recognize, whats going on within the community? Do they even bother our problems? Or do they insist arguing, this system is good and no changes are needed or intended? What is the point keeping a product as it is, although the consumers are more than unhappy with it? Taxes are one of the most polarizing issues in NW. There are 5%, who reap benefits and 95% suffer. Well balanced? Fair chances? Well designed?
Itās a freaking game! The discusion about taxes and poverty really shouldnāt happend here ever. Change my mind.
10% is abusive, after 2 month paying 300$ then now jumping to 1300g per houses, it jumps to 3000Gold per week, 12k per month to pay our rent taxes. This is abusive.
Also when we think of the toxic companies thatās own territories that keep to 10%. (morrow)
This will unfortunately make quit many players that find the game was already a hard grind, not everyone can make 12k per month to pay houses just for trophy and storage.
So far I noticed the game giving us a gift with the right hand and taking a part from it with the left hand.
With that said I hope Amazon gaming will read this tread and will action something to keep more players in the game.
Regards
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I asked in Global chat yesterday, if any of the territory owners could explain why they were taking the 10%, only one send me a DM, he said:
We are taking the max because the other towns are, and we have Ebonscale Reach, the town is not well populated, but the upkeep is the same as if we had Windsward.
We had a longer talkā¦ And today i logged in to see this in Ebonscale Reach:
I then looked at the map, for the other areas, Windsward, Everfall, Cutlass, Mourningdale, they all went down to 2.5% Housing Taxes also, the rest are between 5%-10%, i have not see this before, they have always while i have been on the server, charged max what they could get.
Was it really all it took for one Faction to change the taxes, for the other to go along, like in the beginning all it took was one Faction to charge the 20%, and every one just followed?
I do not hope it will be short living.
What all this is showing is how toxic house tax is and how much the majority of people hate this systemā¦its driving lots of people away.
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There has been nothing good for the majority that has come from this territory control system. It has been obvious since before the game went live. AGS is just stuck on stupid trying to hold onto it as a core feature.
Territory control should be just for show, bragging rights for the PvPers. In no way should it give them any power over the majority of players. Taxes and azoth costs should be set prices across the board and all the coin goes to some NPCs. All crafting stations set to max with no chance of change from invasionās.
Once that is done AGS can just focus on making actual fun content to play, instead of content that is done out of greed or to avoid loss of crafting station levels. Maybe besides just individual reward for wining wars and invasions there could be some cosmetic rewards that can add to the towns look, but that should be it.
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As someone had said earlier I enjoy the crafting side to this game.before the change I could do my running and pay my taxes. With this change I will have to devote a day to farming and selling to pay taxes. Would be nice to be able to play the game the way I like. That being said I enjoy the houses I have and the benefits they give to me. My company owned 2 towns before mergers so I have been on both sides of the fence. I can say my company used the gold for town upgrades only as far as I could tell. To me maybe the town boards could be an effective way to give the controlling company gold while at the same time also paying the person doing the quests instead of the taxes. Since companies dont tend to use people outside their company for wars and invasions they could earn gold that way for themselves and a equal amount would go into the treasury. Another thought would be allowing the community to do town boards in great cleave, sm and such to upgrade the crafting stations there chosen by npc? Eatherway Iām stuck with this new reality unless something changes as I still enjoy playing the game.
good for you but it wouldnāt work for me since the companies on my server dont even want to talk about it
Taxes must be lower cause 3 house is needed by game design!
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Hehe, well my taxes are due in one of the towns, and they are back at 10% did not last many days, and they just made it to 10% the day i need to pay tax lol.
Those are the towns i got houses in. (only 1 of them i need to pay within 1 day)
So do i want to continue playing, or do i just take a break again hmm.
I just think, when you buy a house, if the tax is 4% that day, you should then pay 4% for ever, no matter if the taxes go down or up, you bought the house at that time, there for agreed that 4% was fineā¦
abandoned all of my houses when taxes shot up, guess, I have to quit now because I have no trophies and I refuse to pay the greedy 1% I tried to keep things low only buying 1 t1 house and 2 t2 houses
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I like to decorate the houses, there for I went out and bought the 20k ones.
It is not that I cant afford the taxes, I can just buy a Gen and Laz orb every week, from the faction vendors, also crafting them its not that hard, but it is more the system I āprotestā, I do not like to work for anyone any more.
After all there are a lot of games out there, why play a game that you are some what frustrated with, then a break may be in order, after all we can all just pop pack again when ever we feel like it, or when changes happens.
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So if you can get the stars to align and everything perfect maybe you can possibly have a chance. This tunnel vision ācan-doā attitude is as nauseating as it is naive.
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Good luck! 
This will change when they make the tax a fixed rate and companies no longer can use the gold to buy personal items like BiS gear and such. Give it time they will change it and the toxic companies will leave.
Yesterday I had to pay like 500-700 per houseā¦ Thanks AGSā¦ 
But who will be left by then, game has seen people leave in droves already. Things like this just make it decline faster, good luck in getting them back after they have left.
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