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Posted - 2013.04.06 11:39:00 -
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I think the 80mil cost of invasion will effect the larger corps more than the smaller ones.
A small 16 merc corp that wanted to get into PC was probably only going to be able to take over and hold one district anyway. While a megacorp that had could afford to take over 20 districts before, can now only afford 5 districts.
80 mil is a lot, but it is doable. 16 mercs need to donate 5 mil each in the next 30 days, that's 166,666.67 ISK a day. That is one pub match worth of winnings. If you can't get 16 people to log on and play one or two matches each day, then you wont be able to get them to log on once a day to defend a district under constant attack.
Also a lack of tax and wallet tools are indeed painful. Here is a possible workaround for corps:
If you want to know if your mercs are donating, give each one a number and make them add that to the donated ISK. I'm merc number 16 and I want to donate my 5 mil, thus I donate 5,000,016 ISK. Tell them if they don't add their number then it is considered an anonymous donation. |
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KalOfTheRathi wrote:Taxes are not going to fly for a vast majority of Mercs I suspect. Mercs are actually real people and gamers at that. They play games to relax and one of their favorite things to do is to bend the rules; Of every single aspect of any game.
Don't be surprised when poor recruitment practices don't generate funds to operate PC.
Once taxes can be implemented expect a sudden reduction in membership for the Corp that chooses that option. That might not be true in countries outside of the US. But here, taxes will probably drive more players away than will actually help the Corp.
A system to track donations would make much more sense. That enables pride and bragging rights while taxes inspire revolution on this little piece of Old Earth.
I doubt taxes would reduce member level much if at all. Even a 10% would be barely noticed. So in a match you'll earn, say, 180k instead of 200k. If you donated 10% of your ISK to your corp right now would it affect you much? |