Receiving taxes and earning money
I'm currently playing the sim city built it game on iPad and at first I though it was fun, interesting and fascinating. But until I reached a sudden level like 19-20. Many things will pop out and it r...
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I'm afraid you're mistaken @rules. Services like education, transportation, entertainment etc.. do indeed have a huge impact on tax revenue and tax rates are NOT calculated by base population before services.
Try a simple experiment..move a school away from your population and firstly you'll see an immediate drop in city population. Secondly check your city hall and you'll see that your tax revenue has dropped. Taxes are NOT useless :-o
Im not saying that high land value is directly the cause of higher tax rates..but its the prime indicator of higher taxes due to increased happiness and service coverage.
ALL service coverage is essential for healthy tax revenue
Try a simple experiment..move a school away from your population and firstly you'll see an immediate drop in city population. Secondly check your city hall and you'll see that your tax revenue has dropped. Taxes are NOT useless :-o
Im not saying that high land value is directly the cause of higher tax rates..but its the prime indicator of higher taxes due to increased happiness and service coverage.
ALL service coverage is essential for healthy tax revenue
The only reason I posted was because I did try that experiment already and tax did not change at all (unless I moved something e.g. fire that caused my sims to be unhappy or abandon their houses)
And yes, the taxes are useless. The money you get at lower levels is negligible unless you're going to only log in once a week. By the time you get to higher levels, you don't really need it anyway.
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