Taxing and Patrolling... is it worth it?

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by Kobal2

I get that, but it's still quite counter-intuitive that the scales which make population re-grow actually end up making a net loss faster than the scales that kill pop even faster.

Net loss? Wow, I think you are interpreting it a bit wrong. It makes the overtaxing tactic less effective quicker. Because if you didn't overtax the pop that doesn't disappear would also grow quicker and raise your income quicker.

Say at turn 40 without growth the 100% cumulative income is 3000gold. But with growth 3 it is 4000k. Of course the point where the overtax would give less than these values comes earlier when the end number is higher.