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There are 2 major changes implemented today:

1. Redistribution of tax collected from occupied regions to the occupier

2. New medals and gold for resistance fighters

I won’t go into too much detail on the changes themselves as you can read about them here.

Redistribution of tax income

Currently when a country is occupied the country market stays open and tax collection from work tax, import tax and VAT still goes to the country treasury. This changes means that a part of the tax collected from the country market will be redistributed to the treasury of any country that occupies original regions of that country. While 20% of tax collection (considered base taxes) will go to the original country 80% will be redistributed. Because the market is national and not calculated for specific regions the tax collected is averaged across all regions.

For example if eAus, which has 7 original regions, loses a single region to eIndo, 80% of 1/7th of tax revenue will go to eIndo’s treasury. In dollar terms based on average current daily tax revenue (about $2800) that’s about $320 per region per day.

Clearly this makes it much more attractive to conquer regions. Previously the economic attraction was securing resource bonuses, now conquerors can also plunder their subjects’ tax collections as well.

New Medals and Gold for Resistance Fighters

Admin has implemented a new set of medals and associated gold rewards for those who fight in successful resistance wars. This is similar to the Mercenary Medal but the rewards are far higher in terms of the number of kills required.

These rewards make it much more attractive for individuals to fight on the Resistance Force side of any battle and will make it more difficult (and expensive) for conquerors to hold occupied regions.

What does this mean?

The changes make it more attractive for countries to attack others and for resistance fighters to free regions, so obviously the plan here is to increase the importance (and difficulty) of conquering other nations. In isolation either of these changes have contrary effects and are designed to balance each other; how the balance changes over time will be interesting to watch.

For eAus the big risk is, as always, the increased attraction of large neighbours occupying our regions. We have few opportunities to benefit from plundering other nations’ territories. The advantage of getting more gold from resistance wars is conditional on those resistance wars being successful.

A ‘friendly’ war where 2 nations agree to set NE and take turns conquering and freeing each other’s original regions becomes quite an attractive proposition provided it can be well coordinated though we have a chequered history with training wars that makes such a strategy somewhat risky.

What are your thoughts on the changes? Have I missed any important points? I’d appreciate to hear from you.