You live down the road from an amazon office.
AGS seems to like this toxic tax system. I have a new one for them. Implement a poll in each territory. Every week each player that owns a house in that town can vote. If players that owns a house there like how its being run they can vote positive. If they don’t they can vote negative. These votes will add a scale to the territory upkeep.
Scale is set at the normal amount. If equal positive and negative votes the scale remains at zero and the current normal cost is the upkeep. More positive votes move the upkeep down 10%. More negative votes moves the cost of upkeep 10% higher. Withdrawel is now automatic. If the company owner doesn’t have enough to cover the cost of the upkeep then it is equally removed from every company member until its paid. Still not enough? The company is removed from the territory ownership.
Toxic right back at ya.
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Yep. I don’t have a house because of taxes and won’t get one until it is lowered to reasonable levels. 1000+ per week is too much when I am struggling already to pay for expeditions and repairs and I don’t want to spend time doing boring grinds, just to be able to afford a house.
AGS have basically created a socialist hell-hole in New World, where the few get rich by taxing the shit out of the many.
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this is simply abusive for the casual player, they will never be able to buy a house or do anything in the game… it is like you spend 8 hours at your work then we get to your home and start your second-time job (+4 to 6 hours) gathering, crafting and selling to keep your stuff in-game and then… all over again…
AGS, please I know you want to keep players on your game, but this is not the way… bring fun stuff, content, and stuff alike, time-consuming stuff should be rewarding and not punitive.
I want to farm without the obligation to have to spend more than a half of it, also, try to consider the player level and possessions, it is insane for you to tax the same price of the end gamers with 1Million gold in their pocket.
I just reach 10k, barely 5 weeks in the game… how am I supposed to pay a 1.4k tax per week… I’m sorry, but if things keep on going this way… I will sadly have to drop… don’t get me wrong, I’m a father, worker, and don’t have this kind of time to spend on your game… Casual means this… spending some time to have fun… not paying taxes (even worst if you think that I’m paying for someone else’s war… I don’t even care for that).
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You do realize that after they start fresh servers the game would have cut left player base in half or even more? Noone who dumped into just cutting trees >300 h would sign up for the same shit again. Good luck with restarts.
If you have something to propose at least do it with a grain of sense.
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Except then they will max all taxes - so you will end up paying anyway.
The tax on my t4 house in windsward is only 354, only 120 more than prepatch. 164 standing with 42% housing tax reduction.
Not really. They would be better off spending to buy people votes then trying to raise taxes. Every 10% against vote would hit them pretty hard,
Honestly, you just sound salty. The fact that y’all flagged my post as “spam” just means y’all can’t accept that the information was out there and you didn’t want to take the time to inform yourselves. That’s pretty sad and y’all just sound salty.
I’m done entertaining replies to the comment, though. Stay safe and covid free.
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That is a good contrast to my experience, t4 house in WW, 700+, but my own territorial standing is 69, rather than 164, so 95 additional TS is just going to cut my taxes by 1/2? Hell no.
Welcome to the NW forums!
I feel your pain, and agree that the taxes need to be set back to the 90% discount we had over the holidays, until a better system (that MUST include a way for casual players to achieve housing tax exempt status) can be coded in.
Well said. If I can ask, how much time can you pry away per week to actually be able to play?
Company controls the taxes, maybe you should move out if they squish you way too hard? It would save you money in the long run. It is everyones fault that you build and live only in WW and EF
Well im not terribly IT literate - but I don’t think I’ve flagged your post as spam - I just gave a counter view and questioned our understanding of transparent. As a rule - I don’t answer Spam 
Stay safe and COVID free too
Wait for a DEV response. doubt it will happen.
Best thing to do is completely remove player influence from Settlements.
Solves this issue, and a lot of other issues and exploits immediately.
Better PvP by completely separating player influence over Settlements - Game Feedback / Game Feedback - New World Forums
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I was mistaken about my original comment being flagged. Someone responded something about how 10% shouldn’t be allowed so I commented back that percentages were irrelevant to my first comment.
It wasn’t spammed, but people flagged it anyway and I’m not entirely sure why. When I read the email, I thought my original comment was the one that was hidden, not the one about the irrelevant comment.
People will try to hide or block anything that doesn’t agree or support their narrative of views. It’s pretty sad.
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They (AGS) have not put it to 10. they allow a corridor which’s max is 10. it’s a company decision to maximize the amount they can squeeze out of the house owners…
I agree the territorial ownership has to go in it’s current form, but before that takes place, what about my idea up thread?
Hang on a min.
Housing taxes has been in the game since the start. Even before the winter event, we already had those taxes. It’s really unfortunate that the governing company had raised the tax limit high but that isn’t on the devs fault is it.
I’m not dismissing your grievances though, it’s hard to play an mmo that has some of its core mechanics under player control. But don’t spread stuff like AGS increased the taxes back up when all they did was revert back the taxes and even lowered it.
What AGS don’t realize is that most guilds who own WW/Everfall are already hated by the majority of players so they’re not going to reduce the taxes because someone is complaining about it on the chat.
“Move to a different city then”
If you could have a refund on the money you used to buy your house you could this easily and City Owners would be more careful with taxation.