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Hello - i have 6 small towns and am losing something like 1000 gold per turn.
I am not making any money from taxes - anyone know what i need to do to get tax income? Having a hard time figuring out what im doing wrong.
You need tax offices to get money from taxes.
Also, most likely you're losing that much money from roadbuilding. It's currently very expensive to build multiple roads at once.
I still haven't figured out how to build a road.
I built a tax office when it became available. It provides 1 gold/turn... but shouldnt i be earning taxes based on my population total somehow?
Are you building a lot of stuff in those towns at one time? Same thing happened to me in one of my games. As you cue up buildings the cost for them is added up and subtracted from your gold total. You'll notice as a building finishes your income will go back up. Check through your cities and see if you're building a lot at once. If so cancel those buildings and build the most important ones first one at a time and see if this helps.
Military is the biggest money sink out there. So a lot of troops equals huge spending ( IIRC it's something along 1g per single soldier per turn ). Road building is hugely expensive. And each new building you add to the building queue has a cost just like Raven said.
On the plus side town with no garrison and empty building queue should be, and usualy is monetary self sufficient even running a small surplus. Markets, tax offices and banks help to push the income higher. Roads are the real money spinner ( caravans and passive bonuses from connected towns give a lot of income )
aven X is right insofar that it hurts to que buildings up. If you order 4 houses built you pay for them in one single payment. Obviously for the first house this is good because the building starts at once, but for the other 3 houses you pay money and get no returns for a long, long time.
Building one bilding at a time is the way to go, but it is micro-heavy. I would very much prefer it if the money was substraced when the buildings commenced rather than when the building is ordered.
Also would very much prefer it if there was a 'manual labor' resource or something similar so that certain buildings would not cost money. Why would a house be funded by the nation's treasury? Your people should be motivated to build houses for themselves, right?
It doesn't seem too logical that queing buildings would be more expensive than building them one at a time. Unless you are simultaneously building them ...
I guess I figured out what my problem was. Once you make a 6th city your 'city upkeep' costs go sky high afterwards. The fact that population generates no tax income makes it hard to pay the bills. But if you make a 7th and 8th city right now, you will be paying huuuge upkeep costs.
Wonder when taxation will be going in.
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