Taxing and Patrolling... is it worth it?

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by iRFNA

The manual says that overtaxing kills 0.1% of the population per 3% tax and increases unrest by 1 per 5% tax. So no matter the province size, 18% tax is going to kill more than 3G can replenish, and that isn't even considering the pop loss from patrolling down the unrest. Did the % pop kill get removed, cause otherwise it seems iffy to do this for more than a few turns, regardless of scales.

I would take anything the manual says with a large dose of salt until tested. That said, I haven't actually taxed long term because of the free troop requirement, so i can neither confirm nor deny that overtaxing actively kills population or at what rate it does so. The type of analysis I did is the type you'd want to do, so long as you could account for all the factors, whatever they may be.