I'm a long-time player who has spent over a decade playing on Hard difficulty. But Very Hard continues to be a challenge.
My current city has room for 320+ immigrants, except that nobody is immigrating and it's been that way for a couple of in-game years. The problem, it seems, is that my taxes are too high.
"So lower your taxes!" you (quite reasonably) say.
I don't wanna.
At least, that's not the problem I'm trying to solve.
I want to understand why my tax rate is causing this problem. Lowering my tax rate may solve my immediate crisis, but it will not increase my understanding of how to avoid it in the future, nor how to better manage it in the future.
I also want to understand how I can manage the mood of my citizens to get them to accept this tax rate. I have held two lavish festivals so far, but it has not altered the mood of my citizens. What are my other options for managing their mood?
Is lowering taxes the ONLY way to improve their sentiment?
Are they upset because I started taxing them too early, when their houses were still at the meager shanty stage? If I wait until the houses are more developed, are my citizens more likely to accept the tax rate?
If I lower the rate enough to get immigrants again, will they just start leaving later on if I raise the rate back to its current level?
If I overpay my citizens vs. the kingdom wage rate, will that improve their sentiment and make them more likely to stay?
My current city has room for 320+ immigrants, except that nobody is immigrating and it's been that way for a couple of in-game years. The problem, it seems, is that my taxes are too high.
"So lower your taxes!" you (quite reasonably) say.
I don't wanna.
At least, that's not the problem I'm trying to solve.
I want to understand why my tax rate is causing this problem. Lowering my tax rate may solve my immediate crisis, but it will not increase my understanding of how to avoid it in the future, nor how to better manage it in the future.
I also want to understand how I can manage the mood of my citizens to get them to accept this tax rate. I have held two lavish festivals so far, but it has not altered the mood of my citizens. What are my other options for managing their mood?
Is lowering taxes the ONLY way to improve their sentiment?
Are they upset because I started taxing them too early, when their houses were still at the meager shanty stage? If I wait until the houses are more developed, are my citizens more likely to accept the tax rate?
If I lower the rate enough to get immigrants again, will they just start leaving later on if I raise the rate back to its current level?
If I overpay my citizens vs. the kingdom wage rate, will that improve their sentiment and make them more likely to stay?
[This message has been edited by Afterburner (edited 06-17-2018 @ 00:06 AM).]