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Originally Posted by Nightfall
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Originally Posted by Torgon
Answer this question with actual numbers. Why is temporary overtaxing at 200% an effective strategy but temporary taxing at 200% followed by long term overtaxing at 120% not an effective strategy? Obviously, it not as effective if you have to use 10 x 10 GP units plus a 40 GP commander to do it. But if you can do it with a 20 GP unit the math works out pretty well it its favor. You keep saying that its not effective, but I haven't seen any actual numbers illustrating why its not.
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Note that the discussion, from my side, has always been that overtaxing like this is a bad use of Growth 3.
I have not disputed the fact that you can get an extra 1000-1500gp doing it, I actually stated that before you did, but the biggest cost in doing so is the 120 pretender points you have wasted. There are just plain better ways to spend those points if your not going to take advantage of the exponential nature of the Growth scale. |
My point about overtaxing has nothing to do with growth vs. no growth. Its about gold now vs. gold later. The growth is mainly there for MA Man because your crones need it. As I said the math is similar without the growth and just O3P3 scales. Because of the mechanics if you have fewer positive multipliers the value of overtaxing is less. But as long as you have those multipliers the amount of gold you can get early is very significant, leading to a significant force advantage early on. Basically as long as you have fairly positive scales you should overtax if possible (i.e. have a cheap unit with a high patrol value), if you have neutral scales the question is more difficult. With negative scales the calculation starts to tip back in favor of normal tax rates.
If you want another good look at this check out Executor's recent guide for Bogarus. Basically the same idea but it uses Simargls for the patrolling.