Tax Rate

[Napoleon I]

What's an ideal tax rate without worrying about loyalty?

[Rota]

Make your taxes whatever you want them to be. Be aware loyalty also affects population.

Loyalty will slowly move toward the equilibrium point.
Equilibrium is 100 - Tax Rate - Grievance = Loyalty
Loyalty will be the percentage of your population capacity that will settle in your city.

Tax rate can be moved instantly, but loyalty and population will slowly trend toward wherever the equilibrium of that equation says they should be.

Population capacity is determined by the number of cottages and their level. To increase population, upgrade or build more cottages. Also, as you build and upgrade resource fields, the population will go work in those fields, thus lowering idle population.


Population cap X Loyalty % = actual population
Actual population - workers needed for resource fields = idle population.

Keep in mind, that idle population is where you draw troops from when you queue troops training.

[Sham]

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i have all my citys sitting with a min of 50million gold, that is enough to keep any heros for ages

[armbarchris]

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i have all my citys sitting with a min of 50million gold, that is enough to keep any heros for ages

If your asking this question, you probably haven't been playing as long as this guy and won't have that much gold yet. So the best for you is 50%. That will give you the absolute maximum gold you can get.

[Napoleon I]

ahh thanks for the help and obviously I don't have the gold or I wouldn't be asking for ideal tax rate so thanks for the common sense chris

[tmann50]

50? no! more like 20% 50 is way to far down you wont have enough people in your town my opinion


20% my answer

[armbarchris]

Do the math. 50% adds up to the absolute maximum tax income you can receive. The only reason NOT to do this early in the game is if 50% loyalty dosn't give you enough workers.

Ohh, and build/upgrade cottages. More people means more tax income. You should have between 9 to 12 cottages.

[mjsyverson]

armbarchris is correct. 50% tax rate is the rate at which you will produce the most gold. However, 0% is the rate that will produce the most idle population, and this is what I recommend. If you want gold, go to your marketplace. Sacrifice some lumber or iron to the marketplace, and you will earn gold VERY quickly. Even on new servers where they are only 0.3 to 0.5 gold per 1 resource, that is still the best way to earn gold.