War Tax?

[Freenhult]

War Tax: $0

Just wondering...What does this do. Or should it be ignored or removed?

[The Beatles]

Check it while making an attack.

[Freenhult]

It only shows up while attacking or doing an action. You can't see it from the status screen. I copy and pasted from there too.

EDIT: I mean while I foraged for 200 turns..it was 0. Just like after I attacked someone.

[The Beatles]

When you actually make an attack, for those 2 turns, does it change from 0? Or does it not show up under the turns summary?

[Freenhult]

It stays as 0... It never increases or decreases. It is always 0. No matter what I do.

[prog frog]

perhaps you should actually be at war the person you are attacking. maybe if you declare war there is a tax to compensate the extra attacks you can make.

[Freenhult]

*laughs* Necromanced. WHAT DOES IT DO?!?!1/ I QUIT FAF.

No really. What -does- it do? It might be broke.

[Devari]

NOT ANOTHER QUITTING THREAD

[Freenhult]

Seriously. What does it do?

[Devari]

Ohhh... War Tax was pretty negligible, if I remember correctly, so the $0 could very well be /something/... Just not something particularly big.

[The Beatles]

OK, the wartax calculation seems to have unaccountably disappeared from the code.

We'll find a way to put it back in, though.

[Freenhult]

I'm moving this to bugs. Kinda needs a fix still.

[Slasher]

Hmm I was going to suggest maybe it has something to do with the scaling and it's costing $0.0001 but maybe not...

[Freenhult]

I FOUND IT IN THE CODE. War tax is in /lib/status.php

It looks like its called if the warbands is at war.

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function calcExpenses() {
	global $users, $urace, $expbonus, $warflag, $config;
	
	$loanpayed = round($users[loan] / 200);
	$expenses = 0;
	foreach($config[troop] as $num => $mktcost) {
  $expenses += $users[troop][$num] * ($config[troop][$num] / $config[troop][0]);
  $expenses += $config['market_upkeep'] * ($users[pubmarket][$num] * ($config[troop][$num] / $config[troop][0])) / 3;
  $expenses += ($users[troop_res][$num] * ($config[troop][$num] / $config[troop][0])) / 3;
	}
  
	$expenses += ($users[land] * 8) + ($users[wizards] * .5);
	$expenses = round($expenses);
	$expbonus = round($expenses * ($urace[costs] - ($users[barracks] / ($users[land]+1))));
	if ($expbonus > $expenses / 2) // expenses bonus limit
  $expbonus = round($expenses / 2);
	$expenses -= $expbonus;
	
	$wartax = 0;
	if ($warflag) // war tax?
  $wartax = $networth / 1000; 
	return round($expenses + $loanpayed + $wartax);
}

This -may- be a way to balance personal war. Specifically, set the initial amount to be something like 10mil, and force the the tax to increase per turn spent. This way, the longer a person is at war (with the minimum requirement), the more they pay. Hopefully, it can bank-rupt people majorly and perhaps cause them to lose the war. Also, I think that perhaps a surrender in the war options might be useful. This would end the war regardless of any limit and give the winner a set amount of resources. The loser can only surrender if they have the requirements. Maybe its cop-out but if its steep enough it could be worth it.

[The Beatles]

I think the surrendering might be a good idea, but probably an overcomplication. But setting the personal war tax to be steep is a really good idea!