Something I don't understand but maybe someone has worked it out already. How come, if your income level increases your bounty price all the time, that people can still bounty you for less than what your bounty price actually is? I know that successive bounties on the same player increase in value all the time, but how come the first one or two bounties on you are always less than what Kano declare to be your minimum bounty price? Alternatively, if it is not your minimum bounty price then what the heck is it and what is the point of having it???
This thread links with the other one about Kano doing something useful with the 'tax' money instead of just flushing it down the cyber toilet. So how about it Kano guys 'n gals? What's it to be developed into, a lottery, discount at the blacksmith, coins? Come on guys pick this idea up and run with something.
OH, I believe tax should be lifted at least on FB VC. Not sure other games, or should be addressed and changed up from current status the tax is huge now days on bounties. The game has progressed way beyond DEV'S would ever think because of the "lottery" they have introduced. 72 TRILL base bounty is highest FB VC.
The tax stops 100% transfers of gold. If you want it cut or eliminated, I suggest an idea thread where it will get a 1 from some. 10 from others. There are no schools to support but arguably there is garbage pickup in VC ...
The bounty tax is being put towards a Death Star. You'd be surprised how expensive those things are. Actually though, our "cut" was implemented to help with a bunch of issues, the main one, as Kel mentioned, was preventing players from attempting to use the bounty board as a player to player transfer.
So then, having now got that 'tax' in place and it is working just fine, how about developing it a bit more and doing something with that tax money? Judging by the size of some of the bounties the total tax across the board must be quite considerable. Does this raise another issue of there now being a problem of what to do with it if it was made available in the game play somehow? Is it too much to handle or something?
One also has to look at the compounding income effect of empire, when you have income yields, at up to every 42 minutes. New players coming to this older game will never catch up unless there is ... drum roll ... some taxation going on. As to the beneficiary of that taxation, I would suggest it is spent on making new cities and empires available to ... you guessed it ... new players. Closing the system in some storyboard way, I think is the way to keep this as a game. I think if greed rules i.e. the tax is removed, something I see the people who do not list but do hunt are asking for in the main, the money will spiral this game out of whack to new players to try to get into it. The lottery dogs may have already done in it. Add another brick ...
