Re: High tax rates in Vga Planets

From: nowakowsky@JANUS.ARC.AB.CA

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1993 00:38:38 +0000

In article <1jlbheINN8d5@ub.d.umn.edu>, khuber@ub.d.umn.edu (Kevin Huber) writes:
>Hello,
>   Recently someone suggested that by raising taxes to 100% for ~2 turns
>one could generate a lot of megacredits in VGA Planets.
>   This is true.  However my home planet is now RIOTING and they are NOT
>stopping even though I returned the tax rate to 7%.
>   Does anyone know how I can fix the problem or am I just going to have
>to scrap my home planet?
>   Has anyone had any experience with this problem (i.e. will it quit in
>a few more turns or so?)
>
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>| >>>Kevin Huber<<<                                  <khuber@ub.d.umn.edu> |

Taxing your planets heavily is a BAD idea with one exception.  If you
are going to lose the planet then set the tax rate at 100.  This will cause
rioting that rolls over to the new "owner".  It is annoying but not
exceptionally troublesome on conqoured planets.  The level of unrest on a
planet ranges from - Happy, Calm, Unhappy, Rioting, and Civil War.  At Rioting
and Civil War you start losing Factories, Mines, Defense, and Colonist, but you
do get lots of Money :-).  I usually leave my tax rate such that the people are
indifferent but if I need money I will set the tax rate such that the people
are angry.  I keep that up until the population turn Unhappy.  I then set the
tax rate to a lower level.  This gives you a good spurt of money.

PS - Build a second Starbase as soon as possible.  Preferably on a world with
Native so you can tax them.  You can allways ship in the minerals.

References

High tax rates in Vga Planets
khuber@ub.d.umn.edu (Kevin Huber)
Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:15:26 +0000