50% Tax Plan Vs. 100% Tax Plan
I have done a little bit of analysis of both Zenrax's (50%) and Lord Wellington's (100%) tax plans.
In case you are unfamiliar with these tax plans, I will post links.
Zenrax's 50% Tax Plan
Lord Wellington's 100% Tax Plan
Here's my 2 cents:
These are both great tax plans, however the deciding factor is going to be how much you play on an average 24 hour period.
For both scenarios, lets assume a 10,000 population maximum.
- The 50% percent tax plan will give reach equilibrium at 2500 gold/hr
- The 100% percent tax of course never reaches equilibrium but with constant Disaster Relief comforts you keep your loyalty at 100 you get 10,000 gold/hr minus what you spend on food for disaster relief.
- The 50% plan give you roughly 1/4 of what the 100% tax plan does.
- The 100% plan will not work when you are offline. you must reduce the tax rate to 5-10% when you are offline otherwise you will log on with zero loyalty and population.
So my thought is that make the hours of play the deciding factor of which plan to use.
Point 1:
These plans reach equilibrium (more or less) at 6 hours of game play in a 24 hour period. (they will make you the same amount of gold.)
Less than 6 hrs of game play/day, the 50% tax plan will make more gold.
More than 6 hrs of game play/day the 100% tax plan will make more gold.
Now the next question is it feasible to do both plans. (Switch back and forth)
The answer is that I don't know for sure.
Point 2:
My initial thought is it depends on your max population size. Population doesn't seem to grow on 100% tax rate. Even if your loyalty is to the max. It seems you need to lower your tax rate to get your population to grow to maximum. Letting your population grow to maximum consumes a lot of time where you get minimal tax. Then only to let it decline again when you log off. For small population maximums this is not so much an issue.
Point 3:
You can apply the same principals of the 100% tax plan maintaining a constant 50 loyalty while you are online using disaster relief comforts. Then when you are ready to log off switch back to a 50% tax rate. In fact, this hybrid of both tax plans is probably the most cost effective way to tax your population for those playing an average of 6hrs or less per day.
Point 3:
I would definitely say that anyone going on an extended vacation should use the 50% plan regardless.
There you have it folks.
JAZZ