I am all for an independent tax system however the devs already posted to the effect that they dont want one mainly because of the micro aspects if I understand things correctly. I firmly disagree with that position however. I believe it will add a nice layer of depth to the title.

I believe its a poorly simulated tax system that shouldnt be implemented in a serious game.

I also believe that revolts are purely the job of the Advent and the Insurgent research, no use in making it even more common.
besides, god knows EVERYONE would crank it to the max and only drop it when people start whining about it, and with all the rest thats going on in the game THAT would be too much.

if they want to do something more serious, than that makes sense. but not some half-baked "lets tax-em more" idea.

I thought culture already boosted tax income by 10%.

While the problem with little no macro is it makes the game simply too .. well simple if it's going to be on a real-time scale.

Rather than about clicking, it becomes about who can pump more into one area at once while praying to the gaming gods they'll win. I don't want to lose simply because my enemy has a planet extra, and can produce more units than me.

Or that he colony rushed early on so gained more resources, when I decided to go for a slower approach and build up my empire properly.

Ultimatly I find the combat , the economic and planet growth system thin - I know it's just beta but they do want opinions. This simpy might because I'm fighting the AI, but I can just send my fleet into an area and that's it i've won, With a few extra clicks and monitoring my ships to make sure nothing stupid happens I can confirm a victory if I outnumer the enemy.

The building system isn't much indepth, it's pretty much the same for every planet with slight differences for each it's very rinse and repeat rather than strategical. I do love the elements of a huge system, where I can scout the enemy, ambush him at his weak spots and send fleets upon fleets of ships towards him.

Supreme commander is an example of how not to do a strategical game, Supcom is glorious but it simply puts so much onto the players plate that he can't do anything that smart - it becomes about building and clicking then fighting, From playing lots of MP of supcom I've not really once seen a master tactic which overwhelmed me or something which I really thought " That was smart". It was simply someone who's managed to fire off a nuke faster than you built your anti-nukes, or spam you with an experimental, or catch you off guard early on.

There wasn't any epic ambush tactics or anything like that, mainly due to the simple time it took to construct everything and the fact you had to baby sit all your forces. But saying that - supcom still is a good game.

just because it has never happened doesn't mean it never will, what Im saying is it would spice up gameplay, but there has been revolts over other things, like the UK revolting over the petrol prices, even though it was short lived, and didn't change anything, but we are talking on a planet scale not a country, so I say again, just because it has never happened doesn't mean it never will,

I was not directly advocating the current tax system. I was promoting the idea of a more robust system other then a simple flat tax one. Hopefully one that incorporates several dimensions and is tied into other game system mechanics.

A proper tax system would add a LOT of pointless micromanaging. I don't want a game where I spend 1/6 of my time adjusting tax rates on each of my planets to the level just below a revolt (BORING!).

Besides, since the ONLY intelligent move to make would be to raise the tax levels as high as you can before suffering a revolt, why not just automatically have the taxes adjust themselves to that point?

Of course, if you allow the tax system to adjust itself automatically, you have to ask yourself why even bother having it in the first place.


I would prefer a game where the winner was decided by careful civic development, wise research, intelligent fleet composition, smart fleet deployment, and good tactical sense.

Yay!

tax management is made for games like simcity...

while fighting a war against Multianna I don't want to be worried about a revolt on planet X because my taxes were .001% too high...

I like the way Total War handles taxes; you can let them AI controlled to be the highest possible before the population rebels, have them kept in the middle or lowest all the time for population growth. Than the AI calculates them corresponding to the "happyness" structure, law structures etc. built in the city.