Questions regarding bloackade and tax effectiveness - and a bonus question!

ThaHoward · May 28, 2014

Hi! I got two questions:

1: When I blockade coastal provinces, do one ship do as much blockading as any number of ships? Or is the blockade more serious/harmful the bigger the fleet is, or the better the ships are?

2: Let us say I am taxing my pops at 30% and have an efficieny at 10%. Do that mean that the pops pay 30% in taxes and I only get 10% of them, or do they actually only pay 10%?

Thanks for your time

And a bonus question: I'm having a great war against UK, what kind of peace would be historical plausible? Like would it be plausible to realease Ireland, or to just take Suez and perhaps Singapore?

1anrs · May 28, 2014

I'm pretty sure the answer to 2 is that they only pay 10%, that is why it is safe to tax them at 80+ % at the beginning as they only pay about 40-50%

Don't know the answer to the other two, but my guess at 1 is that the blockade is important, not the number of ships involved.

ThaHoward · May 28, 2014

1anrs said:
I'm pretty sure the answer to 2 is that they only pay 10%, that is why it is safe to tax them at 80+ % at the beginning as they only pay about 40-50%

Don't know the answer to the other two, but my guess at 1 is that the blockade is important, not the number of ships involved.

Thanks! Would been more interesting if they paid that amount of taxation they were set to, but due to bad economic models and so on only a fraction of it was getting to our pockets.

So one commercial raider do just as much blockade damage as 5 Battleships?

Icendoan · May 28, 2014

ThaHoward said:
Thanks! Would been more interesting if they paid that amount of taxation they were set to, but due to bad economic models and so on only a fraction of it was getting to our pockets.

So one commercial raider do just as much blockade damage as 5 Battleships?

In terms of blockade damage, yes.

Also, it technically works that way for taxation as well, they are the same, when you look at the pop abstraction that's used. Each pop is a homogeneous aggregate of people in a province. The pops (not individual people) earn and pay tax, and buy needs, so taxing 10% of a pop at 30% is the same as taxing the whole pop 3%, because they all share income.

1anrs · May 28, 2014

ThaHoward said:
...So one commercial raider do just as much blockade damage as 5 Battleships?

I would have thought so, I have seen the AI blockade my ports with just two ships and, believe me, it does make a difference to my war score... for the worse!

ThaHoward · May 28, 2014

Thank you for the answers

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