NationStates Jolt Archive

God we've got to get better ways (or more effective issues) to control our tax rates.

My ITR reached 30% about 6 months after I started playing (back when there were only 20 different issues) which was incredibly realistic concidering the way I had answered my issues. Most experienced NSers will remember the old "citizens struggle under tax burden" issue.

Then we introduced custom issues, which I might add have been a great improvement to the game. However, all these new issues give us great new ways to spend our budgets (and subsequently raise out tax) but flood the issues line up and drown out the important issues that control tax rates, political freedoms etc.

My tax rate hit 50% around a month ago and I started dismissing all issues waiting for a tax lowering chance. My ITR however has climbed higher and higher and is now sitting above 70%. That’s ridiculous for any nation and I can't do a thing about it and haven’t seen a tax lowering issue in around a year!

What to do, what to do?

Any suggestions for SLIGHT game changes?

There aren't going to be any re-writes of the core code of the game, so the best advice I can give to you is to go write an issue about it yourself.

have tried, got it knocked back

have tried, got it knocked back
Well, if you submitted it any time after the first month or so they were accepting them*, it might not have been seen yet (there is a huge backlog on issues, and only 2 or 3 mods work on them).

*That's a guess, I can tell you for sure that about 900 issues have been considered (and obviously most were deleted) based on the mod olympics thread, and I remember hearing numbers in the several thousands a few months after they opened the submissions.

My taxes have been 100% for almost a month and my citizens are still the happiest in the region. I don't see a problem with the system.