Economic node mayor monopoly

I don't know if this has been discussed already or if there's a system that i don't know of, but my question is if the economic node mayor collects taxes and sets taxes and the economic node's mayor is determined by highest bidder. How will you stop the monopoly?

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daveywavey

Group together to outbid them, raise an army to burn their node down, or maybe attack all their caravans to damage their money gain?

Warth

@BVerse a Mayor can't pocket the taxes himself. They do not help him to get reelected.

maouw

@Warth
That also applies to many positions of real-world government but they all find ways to dip their hands into taxes. I very much doubt it will be different in-game.

BobzUrUncle

maouw wrote: »

@Warth
That also applies to many positions of real-world government but they all find ways to dip their hands into taxes. I very much doubt it will be different in-game.

Not sure how you mean this. You mean that the programmers are going to really put in a way for mayors to skim? Why would they do that? Verra is not the real world. The only way to do that would for the developers to decide to allow it.

Warth

maouw wrote: »

@Warth
That also applies to many positions of real-world government but they all find ways to dip their hands into taxes. I very much doubt it will be different in-game.

lmao, you should go outside more frequently when you can't differentiate between real life and ingame anymore. That's certainly not healthy and very worrysome if you can't differentiate between closed designed by unaffected Developers and the cesspool that's called your government.

daveywavey

maouw wrote: »

That also applies to many positions of real-world government but they all find ways to dip their hands into taxes. I very much doubt it will be different in-game.

There's no reason a Castle owner couldn't share out some of the tax money to keep their servant node's Mayors sweet, so that they encourage their citizens to help defend the castle each month!

BMellow

Personally I think there should be some opportunity for mayors to be corrupt and line their own pockets. Makes it more realistic and would add to the political drama. Also it would make the difference between good and bad node leadership more pronounced.

Warth

realism isn't always a good thing.

maouw

I don't mean pay for things using the taxes.

The Mayor could invest the funds into perks that favours themselves economically, or an oligarchy could form where they all invest into keeping 1 person in power to make decisions beneficial to the oligarchy.
This means that as a citizen of the node, literally your taxes are being used to help the mayor get richer.

daveywavey

maouw wrote: »

an oligarchy could form where they all invest into keeping 1 person in power to make decisions beneficial to the oligarchy.

I can easily see that happening.

Nagash

Just have to make sure the mayor can buy the protection fees if they want to stay in power

Voidwalkers

maouw wrote: »

I don't mean pay for things using the taxes.

The Mayor could invest the funds into perks that favours themselves economically, or an oligarchy could form where they all invest into keeping 1 person in power to make decisions beneficial to the oligarchy.

But, that sounds exactly like things that *should* happen in an economy node set in a middle-age-ish fantasy world

No worries, node-siege's always there to help ...

maouw

Which is why the node system is so cool!

Nagash

maouw wrote: »

Which is why the node system is so cool!

yeah, the whole game revolves around the nodes so I cant wait to see what happens

Voidwalkers

Nagash wrote: »

maouw wrote: »

Which is why the node system is so cool!

yeah, the whole game revolves around the nodes so I cant wait to see what happens

Sudden thought, let's come up with alternative names for Ashes which center around nodes:

- World of Nodecraft
- Node Wars
- Nodes and Fantasy
- Nodes Online

Should I start another thread for this?

daveywavey

Voidwalkers wrote: »

Sudden thought, let's come up with alternative names for Ashes which center around nodes:

- World of Nodecraft
- Node Wars
- Nodes and Fantasy
- Nodes Online

Should I start another thread for this?

Probably.....

winner909098

Voidwalkers wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

maouw wrote: »

Which is why the node system is so cool!

yeah, the whole game revolves around the nodes so I cant wait to see what happens

Sudden thought, let's come up with alternative names for Ashes which center around nodes:

- World of Nodecraft
- Node Wars
- Nodes and Fantasy
- Nodes Online

Should I start another thread for this?

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yes

thanks to damocles for the image

Damokles

Voidwalkers wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

maouw wrote: »

Which is why the node system is so cool!

yeah, the whole game revolves around the nodes so I cant wait to see what happens

Sudden thought, let's come up with alternative names for Ashes which center around nodes:

- World of Nodecraft
- Node Wars
- Nodes and Fantasy
- Nodes Online

Should I start another thread for this?

Nodes & Dragons
Lord of the Node - Fellowship of the Node/The Two Nodes/Return of the Node
Nodes - The Reckoning
Total Node War
Sins of a Node Empire
Node 4 Dead
Half-Node
Among Nodes
Dark Nodes
Nodes must die
Node: Medieval Warfare

@winner909098 No problem my dude ;D

daveywavey

Voidwalkers wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

maouw wrote: »

Which is why the node system is so cool!

yeah, the whole game revolves around the nodes so I cant wait to see what happens

Sudden thought, let's come up with alternative names for Ashes which center around nodes:

- World of Nodecraft
- Node Wars
- Nodes and Fantasy
- Nodes Online

Should I start another thread for this?

Node Theft Auto? For when the node sieges become far too regular...

winner909098

daveywavey wrote: »

Voidwalkers wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

maouw wrote: »

Which is why the node system is so cool!

yeah, the whole game revolves around the nodes so I cant wait to see what happens

Sudden thought, let's come up with alternative names for Ashes which center around nodes:

- World of Nodecraft
- Node Wars
- Nodes and Fantasy
- Nodes Online

Should I start another thread for this?

Node Theft Auto? For when the node sieges become far too regular...

nodeblox? (Its for when everywhere has levels and is designed)

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