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None of those things addressed inflation, though. In fact they made things worse. The only thing that made inflation somewhat controlled was the gold cap (players couldn't have more than 500k, guilds I forget but it was like 1-2 million at first or something)
The taxes you paid went directly to the guild that controlled the town and when the game came out, the guild set the tax rate. House taxes were stupidly expensive and if you weren't in a town owning guild, it became hard to afford without constant farming. When the game was in its prime, I remember our towns pulling in millions every week, which the leaders then split with the guild. Some weeks I'd get hundreds of thousands of gold in pay because we were pulling in so much gold
The taxes you paid went directly to the guild that controlled the town and when the game came out, the guild set the tax rate. House taxes were stupidly expensive and if you weren't in a town owning guild, it became hard to afford without constant farming. When the game was in its prime, I remember our towns pulling in millions every week, which the leaders then split with the guild. Some weeks I'd get hundreds of thousands of gold in pay because we were pulling in so much gold
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Gold cap doesnt mean shit because all your guild, or people for that matter, have to do is invest in some rare commodities and turn that gold into "stuff" to be used in whatever or just sold later when the gold dries up or you need some. Yeah, storage would be a consideration. But there are ways around this as well like alt accounts and other shit.
Inflation is just inevitably going to happen in games like these where gold and mats and even items are just made out of thin air every time someone kills something or a chest is opened or whatever. Taxes would have been a way to curtail this to a point IF it wasnt some grand wealth redistribution like it was in this game, especially at launch, not sure where it went. But yeah usually one guild was controlling the "central hub" of the cities, where all the trade and primo properties were. And the gold just redistributed from others right to their hands.
Taxes should have been the opposite, give the players that control the city(s) some other perks but tax the shit out of them for owning the city. The way they had it was the rich just got richer, while the plebs could not keep up. It became a thing, even back then, where the top guild could afford to basically outfit the entire army with primo gear through funding the crafting and gathering so that there was a tipping point of power that basically no one could overcome.
It was just a poorly thought out system. Games like these basically need an "Economist" to set up economy that will work. So many moving parts. And like I said, gold just created out of thin air? You might laugh, but yeah, games NEED someone that understands economies better and help set up ones in game.
Inflation is just inevitably going to happen in games like these where gold and mats and even items are just made out of thin air every time someone kills something or a chest is opened or whatever. Taxes would have been a way to curtail this to a point IF it wasnt some grand wealth redistribution like it was in this game, especially at launch, not sure where it went. But yeah usually one guild was controlling the "central hub" of the cities, where all the trade and primo properties were. And the gold just redistributed from others right to their hands.
Taxes should have been the opposite, give the players that control the city(s) some other perks but tax the shit out of them for owning the city. The way they had it was the rich just got richer, while the plebs could not keep up. It became a thing, even back then, where the top guild could afford to basically outfit the entire army with primo gear through funding the crafting and gathering so that there was a tipping point of power that basically no one could overcome.
It was just a poorly thought out system. Games like these basically need an "Economist" to set up economy that will work. So many moving parts. And like I said, gold just created out of thin air? You might laugh, but yeah, games NEED someone that understands economies better and help set up ones in game.
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