I've seen it as well. I've heard it refered to as "death by shopping" and it can take your taxes over 100 and put you out if you're really off the ball.
JMS
In a message dated Fri, 26 Oct 2001 2:39:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Aaruman" <aaruman@orions.net> writes:
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You have to be carefull when purchasing commodities. If you bought too much, your tax
rate will go up to support that. I don't know if that was the case for you, but it
seems like the only way for your taxes to rise automatically if you have a surplus.Mike
>-----Original Message-----
>From: oysteint@ifi.uio.no [mailto:oysteint@ifi.uio.no]
>Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:08 PM
>To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [mepbmlist] Economic question.
>
>
>Hmm, got a situation/question.
>
>In one game I have a 20k surplus on my income (60k income, 40k
>expences), but am being plagued by thieves, so at the end of the
>previous turn, I had 0 gold because I bought goods to sell for
>money, to recoup some of the stealings.
>
>However, on my next turn, my taxrate was increased to keep from
>going bankrupt, while I still had a 20k surplus(!). Is this right? I
>thought the only thing you had to make sure, is that you have enough
>gold to cover your deficit(sp?), but as long as you're showing a
>profit you had nothing to worry about.
>
>So is this correct, or should I contact Clint and ask it to be fixed?
>
>Oystein
>
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