B Team
Red and Silver Hand
Amarr Empire
1
   |
Posted - 2013.04.09 20:40:00 -
[1] - Quote
CCP Nullarbor wrote:There has been a bit of discussion about corporation taxes after our dev blog update to Planetary Conquest so I wanted to start a thread specifically on that.
1. Are you in favour of having a corporation tax system, allowing directors to specify a % percentage of all income earned by mercenaries to be taxed and delivered to the corporation wallet?
2. Should this be the same tax value that is used in EVE for mixed corporations?
3. Should we set tax on NPC corporations as well to encourage players to find player corporations that may have a cheaper tax rate? What would the default tax rate be?
Cheers-
All of this is IMO, and I'm not very experienced yet, but it seems to me that applying a tax to players to work for you seems counter-intuitive to the whole idea of mercenaries. So...
1. No. All other questions rendered moot.
The ISK a player gets from a battle should depend on the whim of the corp. X per battle + Y per kill, Z per revive, N per objective capture, etc, and perhaps even a negative modifier for clone replacement. To make it easier for mercs to choose their battles.. have a "base" value offered by NPC corps and allow corps to just modify the base if they want (base x2, base x0.5, etc) or do a custom payment schedule. Corps may offer different payment schedules for their own members/alliance members/unaffiliated mercs.
The loot a player gets from a battle should go to the corp sponsoring his/her presence there, and the bulk of the Dust ISK market should be made up of this loot, with CCP backstopping it at unreasonably high prices for when no corp has a particular item on offer. This would suggest much higher loot scavenging rates, but lower level loot would be acceptable then, because it gets resold to Dust players, hopefully at a profit for the corp.
Thus the bulk of the ISK generation in Dust comes from planet owning corps, and not from CCP sponsored play. |
B Team
Red and Silver Hand
Amarr Empire
1
|
Posted - 2013.04.10 01:47:00 -
[2] - Quote
Thrillhouse Van Houten wrote: As I pointed out before, I'm sure many "real" Merc bands had their individual shares reduced by ridiculous amounts by greedy leadership and quite often.
You might want to actually look at what happens rather than just being "sure". Most mercenary corporations these days give set wages + bonus, not take some sort of tithe from the group.
Over history, not paying the mercenary corps you hired was a good way to find yourself having to fight them. Didn't happen often, and certainly not more than once by anybody. |