many of ya have heard about the '50% tax rate trick'. this trick is to be applied when offline. but ever thought what was the reason this is considered the most effective tax rate. i'll tell ya why!!!!!

Note: This trick is to be applied by people having shortage of gold. for applying this trick ya need to remeber that at least half of your population is idle otherwise it will slow down the city's growth.

here's the concept.......
gold propotional to tax rate propotional to loyalty propotional to population.

all these elements are inter-linked to each in such a way that even if one of the is disturbed it will effect the entire system as a whole.......

gold-tax rate link: the gold tax rate system is a process through which gold can be attained. it is a very direct system because tax rate determies the amount of gold, more the tax rate more the gold.

tax rate-loyalty link: this determines the loyalty of the city. tax rate and loyalty are highly interlinked because tax rate and loyalty comes in perfect numbers or e.g if tax rate is 20% then loyalty will reduce by 20 i.e 80.

loyalty-population link: this is one of the most unknown links in the game. the loyalty of the city determines the population of the city propotional to the population limit for e.g if the loyalty is 80 and the population limit is 1000 the population will at maximum will only touch 80% of the population limit i.e 800.

population-gold link: the most indirect link in the game is the population-gold link. this link determines that higher the population higher the gold collected for eg. if the population limit is 1000 considering loyalty as 80 and tax rate as 20% gold collected will be 160.

(Formula for population: 1000 X 80/100 = population = 800)
(Formula for finding gold: 800 X 20/100 = gold = 160)

Now, since you've got the concept right i'll tell you why the '50% tax rate' is the perfect tax rate........
here's how i'm going to calculate:
100 is the population
10% is the tax rate
now since ya know tax rate affects loyalty,
loyalty is 90
now since ya know loyalty affects population,
population is 90,
now apply the tax rate to this value,
therefore, gold collected is 9.

now lets consider population 100, tax rate varies, loyalty varies and gold collected is the result.

population: 100
tax rate: 0%
loyalty: 100
revised population: 100
gold/hour: 0

population: 100
tax rate: 10%
loyalty: 90
revised population: 90
gold/hour: 9

population: 100
tax rate: 20%
loyalty: 80
revised population: 80
gold/hour: 16

population: 100
tax rate: 30%
loyalty: 70
revised population: 70
gold/hour: 21

population: 100
tax rate: 40%
loyalty: 60
revised population: 60
gold/hour: 24

population: 100
tax rate: 50%
loyalty: 50
revised population: 50
gold/hour: 25

population: 100
tax rate: 60%
loyalty: 40
revised population: 40
gold/hour: 24

so now that ya see why 50% tax rate is the most efficient tax rate, anything below 50% yields low gold and anything above 50% yields low gold.......
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