Taxing and Patrolling... is it worth it?

[TheDemon]

Originally Posted by Kobal2

Uh ? How come Growth 0 is more overtax profitable than Growth 3 ?

It's only relative profitability. Growth will always be more profitable in the absolute sense. But like I was saying earlier, growth isnt any sort of 'counter' for overtax losses.

Exactly. I didn't set my spreadsheet up to do comparisons because I was looking for the breakeven point. If you copy the whole thing to a new sheet, I'm sure you can set up a comparison column.

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid

The Demon: that's turns until the turn income is higher without overtaxing, yes? What about cumulative income? How long until the *total* income collected in the province is higher if you just let it go? (I'd check myself, but strangely enough i don't have excel on this computer - maybe i'll look tonight)

I mentioned both.

For 30k pop:

At Growth 0, Growth 3, and Death 3, the last turn the income for 150% tax is greater than the income for 100% tax is turn 20, 19 and 21 respectively.

This is per turn income.

At Growth 0, the last turn the total income for 150% tax is greater than the total for 100% tax is turn 42.
At Growth 3, the last turn the total income for 150% tax is greater than the total for 100% tax is turn 39.
At Death 3, the last turn the total income for 150% tax is greater than the total for 100% tax is turn 45.

Total income = cumulative income