Taxing - by Houses

[Quorg]

Actually, it's a terrible idea. All it will do is essentially turn house militaries into house-owning pirates. Forcing passerby to pay taxes upon threat of detention or death is exactly what pirates do. If you're in it to bother people and make credits in the process, be a pirate, don't sit on your butt in your Battle Ship outside your capital planet's docking ring.

For some reason there seems to be a lot of animosity towards individuals, especially those who are not already well-established in the server, who simply wish to trade to make a credits to get some decently-equipped characters up and running. And what in the world is this insane banter about "power-trading"? Of course people want to make as much of a profit as possible. What's wrong with that? How is it OORP? In a realistic world, there are many more people out there trying to make a profit than there are fighting and risking their lives for some idea. Don't make it even less realistic by turning Sirius into a place where everyone's out to kill each other.

Not to mention the fact that by further discouraging trading through instituting these so-called "taxes", you will be reducing the number of traders and cutting into the pirate's profit as well.

To use taxes as a mechanism to force traders to join a faction, you are also further discouraging independent RP and making things more difficult for someone who simply wants to trade to make a profit, which is certainly perfectly appropriate RP, considering that most corporations either restrict where a trader can work, what he can fly, or skim off his profits.

If you do institute these taxes, the House militaries in RP should, as a matter of fact, work to protect the interests of the traders whom they are trying to protect. And judging by their performance now, I'm not too optimistic about this prospect. This might even mean-heaven forbid-assisting traders in distress in the border worlds. Like that's ever going to happen...
And how do you enforce this? Would you see house militaries and police blockading against or outright murdering friendly and neutral traders who don't wish to pay? That's realistic.

In RP, I always assumed that all taxes were taken at the bases at which the items were bought and sold.
But I guess just like in real life, it's hard to discourage a government from taking money from the little guy.

Unrealistic, cuts into pirate's profits, discourages free RP, makes it harder for a lot of new players.
Point is, bad idea, however interesting it may be.

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The Midnight Express: A Slaver <strike>who doesn't completely realize what he's doing.</strike> (video)

Quorg, you're officially a moron.

...mongs like Quorg being like a malignant little cancer...

Way to be useless, Quorg.