Quote Originally Posted by shadowfire omega View Post
Having a high tax rate lowers the loyalty, having lower loyalty is less work to drive the loyalty down, thus making it that much easier to take the loyalty to 0.
Very true, but AT THE BEGINNING you have only 1 city so having low loyalty will not hurt even if you are on a more developed server, most people won't waste the food to 0 loy a nooblet city, not enough res there to bother with it