What tax rate is the best?
The best tax rate when you’re not online and playing the game is 50%. Putting tax rate at 50% the population will be stable at 50% of maximum, and they will each pay 50% tax. The stable population number is your loyalty times your max population, and loyalty will be stable at 100% minus your tax rate. This is why it’s so dangerou to put tax rate at 100% and leave your computer for a long time, cause then both your loyalty and population will go down to 0, you will have riots and loose lots of resources.
When you’re planning to stay online for a few hours, first set the tax rate to 0% so that your population goes up. You can use population increase or disaster relief to speed this up. When loyalty and population is at 100% you set your tax rate to 100%. This will earn you a massive income, all you have to do to keep your population from going down is to use disaster relief every 15-20 minutes. If you run out of food, just buy it at the market, food is cheap compared to all the fold you make using the method. This trick will keep loyalty at 100 even with 100% tax rate. Before you log off make sure you change tax rate back to 50%.
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At 100% tax your pop will tick down as loyalty drops, but never back up again, you can farm more gold at 99% tax, because your pop will return as you boost your loyalty. More pop to tax equals more cash. I never use 100% tax.
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Sicarian
18 May 09 at 9:31 am
what title do i need to control 2 cities?. and what is the ratio of infrastructure in a city in your best reccomendation. for example…
2 sawmill, 4 quarry, 5 ironmine. like that. and what are the list of title… i really need it. and how to conquer a strong player city….. effectively
mysole
24 May 09 at 5:00 pm
Just a tip to anyone trying this… MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE THE TAX RATE BACK DOWN BEFORE LEAVING GAME!!!
I know it says this in the post but I made the mistake of forgetting and after about 12 hrs away from the game came back to my fairly successfull city which had been decimated by riots – population 0 – no production – I’m in the VERY slow process of rebuilding now from nothing.
Samedi
31 May 09 at 11:09 pm
Yeah, don’t forget, no fun loosing all population, production and loyalty
Iwind
31 May 09 at 11:55 pm