[MoE] City and Resident

Day 3,468, 11:59 Published in Canada Canada by Utat


Howdy Canada 😁

New shit starting day 3468. You can now choose a "Resident" and be able to benefit from better house both in terms of durability, energy pool size and energy recovery for the time period you spend in that city.

Benefits

The residents will benefit from increased energy recovery speed and the extra energy pool as long as they stay in the city of residence according to the chart below



Choose your residence wisely - when traveling away from the city of residence, the recoverable energy bonus is not available and the extra energy pool is only active for 30 minutes from the moment of departure.
Once a citizen becomes a resident of a city, they can no longer turn back to their “nomad” status. The houses they have active in the cities will benefit of the durability bonus. The houses usage of a resident citizen will no longer have the option to be paused.



City size

The cities are grouped in 5 tiers based on the number of citizens who are residents of the city. Their size not only influences the values of residential tax and the property tax but it also affects the durability bonus of the inhabited houses in the city as per the table below.





Establishing a residence

In order to establish a residence in a city, a citizen needs to travel to the city, apply for a residential permit and pay the one time residential tax and the prorata property tax (if they have active houses).
The residential permit is approved automatically and the active houses will be transferred to the new city if the citizen can pay the above taxes.






Local Taxes

The municipality can levy taxes to fund the city budget

The residential tax - depends of the size of the city and is collected when a citizen establishes their residence in a city
The property tax- is collected for each house based on its global market price and the actual (remaining) durability of the house. It is paid when a citizen moves in a house in their resident city. While the property tax will initially have an universal value, in the future it will be set by the mayor and the city council.



City Budget

The city budget is founded by the currency collected from the local taxes and a subsidy from the taxes collected at the government level.
The current subsidy is 10% of the country income and divided equally between all the cities of the country. In the future the congress will be able to increase the value of the subsidy
The mayor and city council are the ones who decide on how to use the money in the local budget.



Local elections

The local elections module will be added as the next step in the following weeks.

Update

I asked to eRep stuff lots of questions. Still waiting for the anwers and will update my articles as soon as posible.