When they’d reduced the tax on homes, I’d purchased 2 more and gotten my hubby into housing. He now has 3 as well. The sticker shock when I logged back in today was a bit harsh.
Perhaps AGS should factor in how much coin an average player can generate in a week, and adjust this accordingly. The current tax levels mean I’ll probably abandon 2 homes. That seems counterproductive, if the companies want to generate coin from Housing taxes. I think the change takes in-game economy in the wrong direction.
Rent is 50% cheaper than it was before the December/January update, don’t buy houses if you can’t make money?
I own Ebonscale, if property tax is under 5% we literally lose money each week.
You can get 700+g by doing just 3 elite faction quests in mangled heights +u get the corrupted runes and nice drops from the named mobs alone that each day pays my rent you dont even need a group for any of these quests
Taxes just changed today, wait a few days. Some companies probably didnt had time to adjust the taxes just yet.
If it stays up and you are just casually playing with no intend in being a crafter, then abadon your bigger houses and buy the smallest ones in areas with the cheapest taxes (which lay far from each other) to improve your traveling. Sure it might hurt right now, but in the long run it is cheaper to have small ones than pushing through with bigger houses if you play casually.
If you intend to be a crafter and need storage, then you might be trying to flip the area with your company (or join another company trying to flip the area for better taxes).
It should become now also easier for companies to defend against invasions as more people will be better geared or even overgeared for the invasion difficulty. It should become cheaper for companies to manage even areas at the border of the map.
Well if I were to ditch my house in Ebonsacale and move to RS which has all the refining stations I need for half the tax (on my server), well then the high tax landowner would get nothing from me
Enough folks do that, all they can upgrade whatever is low.
Just my two cents… I started grinding RS faction today… when it’s up where it needs to be, the highest taxed house gets dumped.
That’s controversial. OPR is not the key solution for making money unless your group are premades, and are guaranteed a win. 45 mins on the losing side you get like what? 140 gold? Not even worth it… Not even worth farming azoth crystals.
Because if this was true you would have lost Ebon a long time ago. My T4 house in EF (35% tax reduction) went from 260 gold (max tax during Reduction Period) to 549 gold (4.20% tax).
There is no way you suddenly can’t make ends meet if the tax isn’t DOUBLE what you were making the last month or so.
Don’t even “at me” the rest of you. I know for damn sure that if the city doubled your tax IRL, you’d still be pissed even if you’re making six figures and can easily cover the increase.
They didn’t double your tax, your tax has been cut in half.
If you get a 80% mortgage discount for two months IRL and then have to return to paying 50% of what your mortgage was (the price you signed up for when you bought the house), you’re still doing just fine.
Oh, and we make 90k per cycle, 110k of our revenue is property tax - which just got dropped to 28k, so we are still positive - by about 8k.
My tax pre Reduction was 960 gold
My tax during Reduction was 260 gold
My tax post Reduction is now 549 gold
My tax was doubled from what it was.
My tax for the two T1s, which were purchased during the Reduction each cost about 100 gold.
I am now paying more gold for just one home, than I was for three.
Considering I farm out around 100g a day, because I’m not turning this into something that’s ‘unfun’. I can barely afford the house I spent real money on to decorate.
((For reference: Kroclyea’s Ebonscale makes about 144k. The ‘next payment’ is 20k. So unless there’s some UI bug. How are you guys not making money?))
