Re: High tax rates in Vga Planets

From: simons@plains.NoDak.edu (C. Patrick Simons)

Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:30:50 +0000

In article <C17rxu.GKt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ptm57791@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Patrick T. Murzyn) writes:
>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?)
>
>Well, if you only lowered it 7%, then they won't quit for quite awhile.
>To get them back to calm as quickly as possible, I lower my tax rate to
>0% after a few turns at 100%.  It takes about 3 or 4 turns for them to
>return to calm after they had been rioting, and at least twice that
>amount of time (depending on how long you've had it at 100%) to get them
>back to normal after civil war had broken out.  Another factor is the
>amount of colonists you have there to keep the natives in line (should
>you have chosen to opress the natives).  So, you have to make the decision:
>do you want the cash quick, or do you want to keep the people on your
>planet alive...
>
>Patrick
>

An alternate method of regaining the home planet is to have some colonists in
orbit.  when it rebells, transport them back down(i.e. colonize you home
base).  You'll regain it, at norm state (I believe.  the one time I tried
this, it worked, but I haven't explored this further).

-=Chuck

References

High tax rates in Vga Planets
khuber@ub.d.umn.edu (Kevin Huber)
Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:15:26 +0000
Re: High tax rates in Vga Planets
ptm57791@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Patrick T. Murzyn)
Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:15:29 +0000

Referenced By

High tax rates in Vga Planets
khuber@ub.d.umn.edu (Kevin Huber)
Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:15:26 +0000
Re: High tax rates in Vga Planets
ptm57791@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Patrick T. Murzyn)
Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:15:29 +0000