The Economist ~ Notes on the new region tax system

Day 2,189, 07:54 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Spite313


Dear friends,


Just a few notes on the changes to the game the admins have delightfully given us. First of all I’ll address the Freedom Fighter medal, since it’s the least important. The admins clearly introduced this to try and encourage people to fight against their own allies in an attempt to break up or neuter the power of TWO. However it probably won’t work since 25/50/75 kills aren’t that much, and all a country has to do is win the first three rounds and everyone assumes that the RW will fail, so it doesn’t attract any damage. What they’ve in fact managed is to encourage massive overkill in 77-0 RWs. Well done admin, have an apple.





The new region tax thing however… dear God I flinched away from the screen when I saw that. Surely the admins must realise that if anything they have to make the creation of massive empires harder not easier. What every player wants is a balanced game, where they can win and achieve victories, but when they lose they’re not permanently removed from any sort of relevance for months or years on end. This change simply slaps occupied countries whilst they’re down by reassigning their income to their occupiers. We countries currently on top can smile about it for now, and by all means take advantage, but long term it’s insanity.


PCI = TC * ( CR/OR*80% + BI )


This is typical admin pseudo-science, but basically each country has 20% of the pie to itself, and 80% of the pie to divide between whoever occupies it’s originals. So if you earn 10,000cc, 2000 is definitely yours whatever happens, the other 80% is divided between occupiers. So if you have 10 regions, your income is 10,000cc and 5 of them are occupied, you get (2000+4000)=6000cc and they get 4000cc.


Now the classic example of how badly this can warp the game is the Romania situation, where Romania earned more than Poland yesterday because of it’s occupation of Bulgaria, resulting in 38,000cc of tax being taken from Bulgarian citizens. Consider countries like Croatia, whose originals are occupied but own regions in India. They get a pittance in tax from occupying India, but lose the vast majority of their income to Serbia. This strengthens occupiers and weakens the occupied- yes it gives incentives to fight and conquer, but it kills off the ability to successfully build up a war chest to overthrow an occupation.


My advice to all occupied countries - as soon as you get a congress, drop your taxes as low as possible. It might not be much, but you might as well deny your occupiers tax income. My advice to the “powerful” countries: don’t make deals to let little countries have some regions, because the admins just took your incentive to do that away. My advice to the admins: reverse this ridiculous policy as quickly as possible, and rethink how you want your game to look in six months time.


Iain