Taxing and Patrolling... is it worth it?

[krpeters]

Originally Posted by Kobal2

However, it is still very puzzling to me that G3 makes overtaxing less (relatively) effective, when you'd expect the pop regrowth would mitigate the pop loss from overtaxing and thus keep the overtaxing gravy train going a bit longer.

You're looking at this backwards... look at it from a long term vs. short term perspective.

The purpose of overtaxing is to improve your short term at the expense of the long term. With a growth scale, your overtaxing is hurting a really good long term, so the short term gain comes at a high long term cost and hits breakeven quickly. With a death scale, your long term sucks anyway, so you're sacrificing little for what you gain, so breakeven occurs later.