Politician Archive
Thread: Question about Taxes.
Ummm.....I will give a good reason to have a shop (for example, a merchant tent with a vendor) inside a player city and paying the taxes.
To have a shuttleport the player city need have 50 citizens. To be a citizen you need have a house (maybe a tent is enough) inside the city radius and declare residence.
Then we have 50 residents at a city with a shuttleport. Well, i think that will be hard that ALL the 50 residents have no one crafter or merchant. I believe that 20 to 40 residents will be crafters or merchants and will have vendors. Problably they will deploy their vendors at the area around the shuttleport...
Well, you really think that some customer will walk 450 meters to go to a shop out the player city when he can buy at 5 to 30 meters from the shuttleport? Well, a customer is someone that NEEDS buy something (cloth, armor, weapon, droid, etc). If he buyed that thing that he needs at someplace inside the city he don't need look for that thing and walk to out the city.
Who opens a vendor inside a player city will make good business. Who opens a vendor out a plyer city will need a lot of luck and problably will lost money...
BaneShee wrote:
"[...] I'm just not sure that distance from a shuttle port is going to be that much of a factor when mounts and vehicles hit the servers as well."
Well, today the people are walking 1 km from a NPC city to go to a player shop to buy things, but remember that there's no vendor at the NPC cities (okay, there's the bazaar terminals, but only to itens that have a price under 3000 credits).
The player cities will have player vendors and player cantinas and player theatres and player hospitals and clonning centers and missions terminals, they don't are only to have the shuttleports...
You see, there's some good motifs to player stand inside a player city and to buy all the itens he needs inside the player city. To be true, IMHO someone that have a vendor outside a player city can sell less than someone that have a vendor outside a NPC city, then is really better move the vendor to inside the city...
And to make the situation worse, who move to inside the player city first will get the better places to deploy vendors...