Ares wrote:
The houses out of town zones will keep the 1% tax rate for now. We've been debating this as well, and are undecided.. Boris is for 0 tax, I'm for 1%. Call it a maintenance fee or whatever. I'm just worried that if we make houses outside of towns free, they'll become much more desirable than living in a city.
I belive that should be an option for those houses in the middle of nowhere with no lights or roads to have 0 taxes but instead try to make the upgrades in cities more desirable.
I can think of plenty of things the taxes can be spent on.
I think it would be good to have maintenance things in the bigger cities such as lights and roads.
Upgrade guards with more damage/health
Archer guards
Battlemage guards ( With alot higher maintenance )
Cheaper to buy goods in the city for its citizens
Faster restock for the vendors in the city
Banners and flags to place by the roads and on buildings. Maybe with the color of the guild owning the city.
Benches, flowers, tables, anvils, ovens, fountains, hitching posts, lamps, shields, statues and so on. Which can be colored for a price.
Increased defense, Longer siege time ( I also think there should be a way to make the siege faster for the attacker. Maybe bring a cannon or other siege weapon to the city stone )
A town crier to spread news and propaganda of the guild owning the city, maybe some lines decided from the leader in the guild owning it and some lines from the mayor of the city.
A very expensive special regeant vendor that sells just to the cities citizens
Portal vendor
Extra normal vendors
Special colored clothes for the citizens to proudly show which city they belong to
Town defense training to increase the damage the citizens deal to the enemies attacking their home or simply increase the armor citizens have in and around their city
I think you should try include as many houses as possible with this system aswell as add more town stones to the smaller villages there is out there.
Oh, and it would be fun if normal guilds also would be able to take over cities and just not religions but that is somthing for later.