Taxes on shops

Hi

The idea is simple to help filling the treasury in the town and help people stimulate construct their town completely.

Charge taxes (xx%) on the goods you buy in the shop (general store, gunsmith, tailor) which will be put in the treasury of the town.
Peeps will not have to donate money from their own to the town anymore. Ofcourse more expensive things will yield more, so a full-build shop will bring in more money.

grtz

Allmar

Rarely anyone buys stuff from town stores so money brought into town treasury trough such taxes would be low. Taxes paid in the bank bring enough money to treasury already and if that is not enough people will gladly contribute with some cash in order to build up town or donate money for fort digging.

While its not a bad idea you are proposing, the problem is revenue trough shops would be low imho.

If the idea is aimed at filling town treasury, its not needed. Half of your bank fees goes to town treasury.

For a large town with many members, thats a whole lot of money. Considering the town treasury funds are only needed for building up the town and calling fort battles, the treasury fills up faster than you can spend it.

Except on newest server, Most town treasuries hold more money than the sum total of the towns' players' banks.

If the idea is aimed at taking out money from the game, the town shop items aren't much in demand other than by the collectors. The set items available in tombola are much better clothes for quests/duels/forts.

For a town with quite some members, yes it is not needed.
But like Red Falcon proposed to found a town from a certain level, 1 man towns can use this money good I think! It'll help them construct it.

Most of the high demand items are any new sets available and fort guns/ named items and town stores aren't used much nowadays. Town treasuries do fill up a lot quicker than you think, if you want more money in the town treasury just tell all your townies to donate a bit to the treasury straight.

Realistic but useless. most money comes from banking fees , this tax would add money to the treasury but it would be a 1 time boost and nothing more. banks work just fine, our treasury has 2.5mill in it and no one has donated a dollar to it in years.

Allmar said:

For a town with quite some members, yes it is not needed.
But like Red Falcon proposed to found a town from a certain level, 1 man towns can use this money good I think! It'll help them construct it.

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Well 1 man towns make their own choice to make the game difficult for themselves. also who would buy things from them , it would be madness to pay 5 or 10 more for things you could get cheaper on the market or from Mobile trader .

taxes, bah, we have enuff of those in real life.