Cash Problems

[Fatherwow]

So long term.. I always seem to run out of money.. even with taxes in effect. There is a event that gives you 3000 gold but even if u take the 1500... to save happiness it still bites you in the ass later on. Paying your people every-time they bring in a resource seems really silly.. the payment for doing jobs like mining etc is bad enough but paying them for each thing they harvest is just stupid.. and your cant even turn off collections. Games like Oxygen not included and others don't make you pay your guys for resources harvested.

[BNY]

For me the same... The menu is quite complicated. Maybe add some basic options and hide the full options under 'expert menu'

[Alastair]

Just fix your taxes.

I make it so if a Rat have more than 400 gold it gets taxed. You can chose what you tax and how much you tax it.

I also give the rats that have less than 200 gold subsidies, every day. 100 gold for now, but I am only early game.

i don't understand how you can have cash problems, when you can tax them all their money.

[DragynDance]

Here's a super basic, easy way to redistribute wealth amongst your citizens and yourself. Set a daily tax of like ~15% of their total wealth. Set a bathroom tax of a decent fixed amount, like ~50 or so, since they have to use the outhouse at least once a day usually. Set a welfare option where if anyone falls below 200 gold, they get 500 gold. What tends to happen is all the entertainment workers will have tons of money, and everyone else will be broke. This redistributes wealth to your poorer laborers whilst keeping the majority of the mint yourself. Nobody becomes too broke to not be able to support themselves, and you don't run out of gold. Later on, I also like to set an additional tax that only hits middle class + upper class for 5% more, and then a third additional tax that only hits upper class for another 5%.

[Impos]

lost 3 games coz ot of gold...this tax so hard for me atm..need learn more but later

[Gerbah]

It honestly feels like the tax collector at the moment just... doesn't ever collect taxes? I've never seen them do it, I never seem to get any money and I have to just collect it all myself anyway regardless. I think something is bugged or there's a big problem somewhere

[Graknorke]

Money only outright leaves your city by trading (and maybe the wealth of a ratizen is lost when they die? not sure), if your coffers are empty it's because your followers are lining their pockets. As monarch it is your right and duty to take it back (set harsh wealth taxes).

[FreedomFighter]

Originally posted by Gerbah:

It honestly feels like the tax collector at the moment just... doesn't ever collect taxes? I've never seen them do it, I never seem to get any money and I have to just collect it all myself anyway regardless. I think something is bugged or there's a big problem somewhere

They don't go out and collect tax. They collect it through working at their table. Once the work cycle is completed, a ratizen with overdue tax will magically got their Pia suck into your treasury.

[Flavalicious]

The rat i have performing at the circus is sitting on 12k of the 20k total gold in my city lol.

So i set daily wealth tax (25% of total wealth), then i set a toilet service fee of 50g. And then a wellfare benefit for 50g. And what ends up happening is everyone is broke, they get paid enough from the state so they can use the washroom once a day (and then are gifted 50g for the next days visit), and that money eventually funnels into the performer and i tax it. Everyone stays more or less happy because even have 1g puts them in like the 70% margin for richest citizens.

Takes some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around to figure out, but its not as bad as it first seems. Focus on the toilet tax, and a system so your unemployed people get given enough cash to visit the washroom. Early game thats all you need.

[Ulthar]

I would love to see rat society evolve, so that a blackmarket appears, and the rats start forming their own guild.