Does anyone else feel like this can be exploited? my taxes per week went up 500g after my faction took it. Now, for my first home I’m sitting at 1800g a week, instead of 1300.
I was glad we were getting territory, but now I feel like it just cost too much.
I also think the house tax system is bugged, because I was calculating tax decrease from standing and first home discount on top of the town tax % and it just didn’t add up. was way more than it should have been.
I believe you get the tax discount only for the first payment of your first home, and then it goes to fully-priced tax thereafter (as in, the full default price of the home).
The (tax) prices are indeed a little steep, regardless of faction control.
I haven’t paid my first week yet. Also, others are telling me it’s discounted always for the first purchase home.
There’s also the problem with rival factions jacking the property tax way up to 20% just to be spiteful when they take the territory. That happened on our server when Everfall fell. They knew that the vast majority of houses were syndicate, so they jacked the property tax way up to the extreme 20% since it wouldn’t hurt their own faction. So, taxes are like 2k gold every week. Forget that.
We have a level disparity problem. The Marauders have a lot more level 60s while the syndicates are more casual on the leveling. So, of course, it’s going to be lopsided until more syndicates get to 60.
I hope that’s the case and it was just bugged out for people on my server.
me too.
yeah that’s what happened here too. except im in the same faction and it’s hurting me bad. im pretty sad about how this tax thing works…
Sounds like taxes in real life.
Guy A promises to lower taxes and help out the little guy. Guy A gets into Office. Little guy gets screwed anyway. Way to go Amazon, you’ve recreated American politics.
yeah but i have 52% decrease to my taxes. 20% from faction and 32% from standing, not including first home purchase. with taxes only going up 4% from what the previous faction had it at, and me gaining decrease of house tax by 20%, that i never had before… should it have jumped up over 500g?
I feel like the calculations aren’t being shown correctly by UI or the house-tax system is bugged.
All depends on what everything was set at. 50% of 2 is still only 1. 4% of 100 is 4. So depending on what it was set at, and what it is set at now, it could still potentially increase.
I’m not dedicated enough to crunch the numbers and solve the word problem you’ve laid out for us so I can’t say if that is in fact the situation. Only that it is possible.
okay so at 10% territory tax, as owned by previous faction i was paying 1300 something. I had 30% decreased house-tax at the time. If the town tax is increase to 14.5%, going up 4.5%, and I gain and additional 20% + 2% (i got extra on standing) decrease on home-taxes for my faction owning it, then my taxes should be lowered 17.5% from that 1300, not raised by 38%.
unless im wrong and there’s something im missing, i honestly hope to be corrected so my brain wont scramble anymore. but if im right, this should be fixed asap.
That’s not of percentages work.
The increase in tax is a 45% increase, since 14.5 is 145% of 10.
So a measly 20% discount (and the little +2point of % on territory standing discount) is not going to cut it.
I made quick sheet so if you can read my handwriting you can have more details on that.!
My guess is that the faction control discount is applied on top of the territory standing discount since it would be weird to see percentages additionned with a different name/source.
By the way I assumed your house value is 15000g, which seemed the most logical, but tell me if it’s otherwise.
okay i see what i missed. i wasn’t thinking correctly. time to put myself to bed. zZzz
Oh and lastly it seems there’s a penalty for paying your taxes late, either that or some discounts not working when paying late.
If your taxes are due on Wednesday and you pay them on Thursday, you’re in for quite the sum.
I’m just going to not pay taxes at this point because they put them way up! Hopefully others on my server do the same and they realise the error of their ways. 
Then don’t pay until your faction takes it back.
My faction essentially fell apart. They just gave up one day and now we own no territories. The issue will all be moot soon since I plan to transfer to another server anyway. Preferably a server with 3 solid factions (with capable leaders) that don’t fall apart like a house of cards when the fighting gets real.
This is one reason I love our faction, they do the opposite. The other two factions have steep taxes (Syndicate have maxed out all taxes in their last remaining settlement) but ours almost all set them low. They’ve liberated regions and immediately cut taxes to minimum.
Makes me proud to have chosen them
/sheds tear
