Rate-Lock for Property Tax

[MCtheBoss]

I hear a lot of complaints surrounding property taxes, and all of it seems warranted. Buying a house in a settlement just for it to be taken over and the taxes hiked up seems terrible. My friends decided just to abandon their 10k (paid 5k) house to avoid paying the 2k weekly property tax after an opposing faction took the settlement and maxed out the tax rates.

If the game is going to implement property taxes, they should lock your tax rate in upon purchase for something like 2-4 weeks. That way, people who just bought a house in a settlement aren’t going to get screwed the minute the settlement flips.

For example, if I buy a house in Monarch’s Bluffs and the current property tax rate (ie. 5%), that rate locks in for 4 weeks on that home. Even if the tax rate bumps up to 20%, everyone has some time to figure out the next steps (ie. try to flip the settlement, abandon the house, etc.)

I think adding this will help alleviate a lot of the headache involved with owning a house in New World.

[Goemoe]

Property taxes should be payed monthly anyway. They are way to high, especially with them being linked to the city governing guild. Once the majority of players have done all the major quests, they money on the server will diminish anyway. We’ll see how this major money sink dorado will work by then.