Since taxes were taken out of factions there should still be a incentive to own towns. Raising the taxes up and down to make bank seemed to be taken into consideration on OSI hence why you could only change the tax rate every 12 hours, which could be changed to once every 24 hours or once every time the sigs are corrupted - Although people are saying this will collapse the economy of the server :roll: It could be changed to "ONLY" faction vendors sell cheaper then then npc vendors in town. This can't be exploited because buying off faction vendors and selling them to NPC vendors would be pointless because of the fix to npc vendors buying for less each time you sell eventually buying for 1gp which would not make you any profit. I and a few others who faithfully play factions believe there needs to be a incentive to camping sigs for 7+ hours and Fighting for them. The whole point of factions getting cheaper prices on faction vendors for regs etc is because factions are constantly losing regs pots and using them more then anyone else so it makes sense why OSI made it that way and Taxes was incorporated for towns they own to gain silver to place guards and vendors. Since Data seems to apparently be important all of a sudden I'll list it below. The Finance Minister may view the city treasury, purchase faction shopkeepers, or set the town's taxation rate. The taxation rate can be set from 1/3 normal price to 3x normal price in increments of thirds. In a town that has a taxation rate other then 0 (normal price), the NPC vendor prices will reflect the increased or decreased prices. A faction may only change shop prices once every 12 hours of real time. http://www.uoguide.com/Publish_8
