| New Tax System Changes | January 6, 2009 |
Tom sent the following message to the Discussion List today. It highlights some very important changes to the tax system soon to be in operation on the testing islands.
tax system change
We are currently preparing a minor, but important change to the tax system.
Instead of the lords deciding how much they give to the duchy or realm, and the dukes how much they pass on to the realm, we will now have a consistent "higher-up decides" system. In other words:
- Lords decide how much taxes the peasants pay to them
- Dukes decide how much taxes each region pays to the duchy
- Rulers/Bankers decide how much taxes each duchy and imperial region pays to the realm
In order to allow this to work as simple as possible, duchy/realm shares are now taken from the local tax income before any knights are paid. That allows the banker/duke to set them from 0% to 100% with no regard for the local distribution.
It is a simple change, but we hope that it creates a lot of power-struggles within realms, and makes lords a little more defensive of their deeds. The important benefit this brings is a way to punish people THROUGH THE HIERARCHY.
So if a knight is not behaving well, the duke can punish that knights lord with a higher tax share, possibly causing the lord to pass on the penalty. That's the future - punishment down the hierarchy, everyone is responsible for the people under him, but he can also decide to defend them, if he wishes to.
Yes, that means that banker fines are probably going to go away sooner or later. But first we need to check whether this system works.
Yes, it DOES create enornemous potential for "evilness". Yes, duke X could decide to take most of the taxes away from all his lords. Which, of course, would cause most of his lords to leave the duchy. Yes, some lords may not be able to (not bordering any other duchy), which would force them to do some low-level diplomacy (e.g. convince another lord to switch as well) first. All that is intentional. We WANT to create more strife and a little more hostility within realms.
The changes will go live on testing with the next code update in a few days.
– Tom
This is a big change to the system which will require some rethinking in the way realms handle gold up and down the hierarchy. |
| -- Indirik |
| "Too Much Peace" Code Active in Testing | January 6, 2009 |
Too Much Peace
New "too much peace" code is active on testing now. Our goal, as always, is to invite you to more war. That means that when your realm is hit by a "too much peace" penalty, drawing back to do region work is the wrong answer and will only make the problem worse. Please keep that in mind.
– Tom
At the latest turn change, many realms received an "empty" Too Much Peace message that had only the title and no content. This means that your realm should not have received the notification at all. (See bug note 4592.) |
| -- Indirik |
| Fixes Live | January 5, 2009 |
| All fixes completed as of the morning of Jan. 5 have been uploaded to testing. |
| -- Danaris |
| More Code Updates | December 19, 2008 |
| Several more fixes have been moved live onto testing islands. One important change, not listed in the bugtracker, is a change to overkill and overcrowding. Overkill and overcrowding have been changed to take into account the size of the combatants. This means that monsters and daimons should receive less of a benefit from overkill against them, and you should be better able to get into combat against them with less overcrowding. |
| -- Indirik |
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| January 6, 2009 |
| Bug 4592 Inappropriate, empty "Too Much Peace" warnings should no longer appear. |
| January 6, 2009 |
| Bug 4583 Archers are firing at enemies engaged in close combat, and while they themselves are engaged in close combat with an enemy |
| January 6, 2009 |
| Bug 4592 Empty "Too Much Peace" warning appears inappropriately. (Fixed) |
| January 6, 2009 |
| Bug 4590 Marshals and Seconds should once more be able to take command of their armies in battle. |
| January 2, 2009 |
| Bug 4473 Rulers can now send orders to their Council and Dukes. |
| January 2, 2009 |
| Bug 4206 Anyone who can send orders to "all of" a particular group should now be able to send orders to "some of" those nobles in the same groups. |
| December 29, 2008 |
| Bug 4575 Recruitment hints has been corrected to properly evaluate unit cost and pay. |
| December 29, 2008 |
| Bug 4444 Judges can no longer send messages to prisoners on the first day of imprisonment. |
| December 29, 2008 |
| Bug 4041 You should now be able to see how many paused members there are in your religion. |
| December 29, 2008 |
| Bug 4382 You should be able to view the region description for all regions on the island. |
| December 29, 2008 |
| Bug 4557 Custom titles have been added to the positions displayed on the realm details page. |
| December 29, 2008 |
| Bug 3982 Copies of Protests you send should now appear in "Message you sent" |
| December 29, 2008 |
| Bug 3384 Regions with no temple are now treated as if they had a "size 0" temple, capable of supporting only a small number of followers without loss of faith. |
| December 26, 2008 |
| Bug 4558 When a lord is removed all existing food Sell orders are canceled, and Buy orders transfer to the new lord. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug N/A (Live on Testing Islands only.) Battle notifications sent to the realm and Huge Battle notifications now report the combatant strength in "men" and not CS. The actual Scribe Note of the battle will report full Combat Strength values. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug 3830 The death of a ruler during a rebellion should now result in a successful rebellion at the next turn change. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug 3709 Units that go past the enemy during battle should no longer continue "advancing" off the battlefield. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug 4570 Tax rates should no longer be inappropriately reported as excessively high. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug 4460 MI should no longer inappropriately leave the fortifications during sieges. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug 3815 Family history should now be correctly updated when elected under new referendum system. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug 4572 Gold from food sales to caravans is added to the trade balance, and not given to the lord as bonds. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug 4561 You will now get a warning if a rogue character is idle more than 7 days, prior to automatic deletion of the character. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug 4541 Secession reports should now be sent to the correct nobles, and not just government members. |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Bug 4114 The Lord who created a food sell order should only get the gold from sales to a trader so long as he is still the Lord. If he is no longer the lord, the gold gets added to the region trade balance. |
| December 12, 2008 |
| Bug 4558 Purchasing food using the new "Sell" orders does not honor the food reserve setting. |
| December 8, 2008 |
| Bug 4255 A new messaging option has been added to religions to allow you to message all priests of your religion. |
| December 5, 2008 |
| Bug 4542 Adventurers are now reported as a separate category from nobles on the realm list. |
| December 5, 2008 |
| Bug 4227 Realm list now sorts properly. (This is active on testing islands. You may need to clear your browser cache to see the proper formatting and colors.) |
| December 5, 2008 |
| Bug 4523 Lord is no longer removed from their position when the region realigns to a new realm while the lord is banned from their current realm. |
| December 5, 2008 |
| Bug 4457 Moving capital no longer objects to unrest in the old capital if it's not part of the realm. |
| December 5, 2008 |
| Bug 4536 Looting shrines and temples should now be possible regardless of diplomacy. |
| December 4, 2008 |
| Bug 3941 Ignore function should now be available while at tournaments and in prison. |
| December 1, 2008 |
| Bug 3993 Position titles, voting settings, and power settings are now not reset when someone new is appointed or elected. |
| December 1, 2008 |
| Bug 4422 Guild members should now be informed when the last guildhouse of a guild closes. |
| December 1, 2008 |
| Bug 4534 Nobles can no longer be captured in battles in which their unit takes part, but at which the noble is not present. |
| December 1, 2008 |
| Bug 4158 Estates in seceded regions should no longer be reset to small/idle. |
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