Unsure if your response to my post above yours. In my case I bought the 15k home in EV and a 20k home in WW when I was at my peak and logging a lot of hours in game. I like others found the end game loops lacking after putting 1k hours in. Only wanted to play casually at that point to wait on updates. The game wasn’t worth putting in the time to make the payments.
In fairness, 2k isn’t a lot for players who can put in time and effort. However, for casual players, gold incoming is idiocy. I spend fourteen hours a day and I have little to no money to show for it.
I don’t get the magical 10-20k drops for finding rare items. I’m in no position to have items drop from mutated dungeons, because my gear isn’t dropping those level items.
All I seem to do - is spend spend spend, for items out of my reach because those with money, charge prices above and beyond what they should be.
Housing tax is ok for a money sink Devs, but your little bags of juniper berries, are like giving infants money for candy, but those kids, goto the shop, only to find, they can’t actually afford to buy anything.
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Find me one place in the world where 2 months taxes i equivalent to the price ouf the house…
It’s much worst than IRL
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I’m not defending housing taxes in New World. Yes, they’re too dang high. I was just commenting about property taxes being a sort of rent in real life.
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FFS I have mortage payments in RL to pay… Why would I want to do it in a game that is supposed to be fun 
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What you doing today ? Well you know, grinding just to make my weekly payments so I can use my storage, trophies and porting that i already grinded for…
Companies already make more than enough coin from crafting and refining fees…
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I think apart from everything else the amount of taxes should depend on how well the town is maintained.
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It’s actually astonishing to me these guys got on the dev update and said this would be a happy medium. Did they think people were running 20% tax rate before the holiday reduction? No, most companies were running between 8-10% before the holiday reduction and maxed it after AGS started printing gold. This has resulted in the taxes being exactly the same as before, and allowing companies to tax up to 2,000 a week per T4 house. Do they think that is fun gameplay to be taxed up to 6,000 a week to keep your houses that you can’t sell or get rid of? I am starting to think that the people in charge don’t play the game at all.
Bump This topic needs to be addressed because some companies are doing this just to troll people. They are very toxic and some really shady dealings behind the scenes.
Some of these purple regions are owned by sub companies of the main company that came to troll from another server.
I love how people online complain about taxes in a game, but has the exact demographic that votes for high taxes in real life.
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I vote for high taxes for the insanely rich in real life to make the rich a less insanely rich. In New World… I stopped paying taxes because it makes me poor. Thats a big difference
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To me the problem is not that Companies/Carpetbagging low-lifes can set taxes as high as they like - the problem is that the person who laid out cash for a house in that town cannot vote with her/his feet. You can’t sell the house - therefore you don’t own it and the AGS “buy a house… buy THREE!” is a big fat lie.
There will be no balance because AGS is currently treating renters as serfs. Don’t blame the carpetbaggers for being low-life scumbags - it’s their nature - blame AGS.
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PS - The AGS “Make Good” is another lie. It was a “make the rich richer and kick the serfs in the face.” At least that was the effect, regardless of good intentions.
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So, art imitating life? Stop paying your property taxes and you’ll eventually find yourself kicked out of your home… as though you were renting it.
Agreed the rent is too damn high. But, the sky is falling, so I’m not sure it matters.
We should be able to sell the property. In real life the property value goes up over time offsetting the repayments/tax
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That is a catch 22, they use the taxes to the stations in the town. I think they should use the boards to maintain them, as in, you want a better leather working station, we need X people to do X town board quests by the end of the week… It gets people town rep, gives better incentive to do board quests and Companies don’t get to rob us just to fund their PvP gear.
Or, drop the maintenance cost of towns drastically, so that rent can stay low. I would have thought the second one is a no brainer, but even when they dropped the tax down they still just gave Companies X times what we paid them, so they still got rich off it.
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Thank you for listening…
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It’s great that the average player pays less, however, paying the owners 5x times the rent collected is now adding massive money into the game. How is this any different than what you (AGS) did in Nov/Dec? What was learned?
This is going to cause huge inflation and the large territory owners are still going to buy up any thing they need/want and the average player wont be able to afford. I don’t see how this solves anything. It also wont stop certain territory owners from using the revenue for RMT.
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This is a valid concern.
A suggestion that was made during Alpha, was that funds gained by taxes, should only be useable on the town, not distributed into main game.
However, I am greatful they are listening and trying to change things. It gives me hope for the future.
I agree, “Taxes” Are just insanely high, and on top of that, they seriously need to be lowered 50% and NO extra gold given away for free, making gold out of nothing to the owners…
And, 100% SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO EVEN HAVE TO PAY “TAX” if the company does not have 100% upgrades going at all times, I understand that would be really tough on First light or whatever, but when you have experienced no upgrades done for about 2 months on a server, And having to shell our 3500 gold every few days???
Thanks, And THANKS AGS for making my gold worth nothing, and then, take my gold, make it multiply and give it to someone else… I LOVE being a digital slave.
“Sarcasm”
In case you didn’t get that.
They really didn’t change the problem. Companies will still get 5% tax. They will just raise the crafting, refining, and trading post tax to max to compensate the other 5%. They will still print gold. My gold is still given to another player. Tax was never the issue. Its where that tax money goes.
That’s a whole different conversation.
The win is knowing they cut our expenditure on a personal level.
Not everyone has the vasts amounts of money, that high percentages where taking from us. This change helped curb that. It’s a win for casual players.
The next new topic should be “Taxes” in general over all. How do we solve the issues that some companys can sit on Five million gold plus and still not upgrade their towns.