Income and population correlation

[Skuda]

I noticed that in every city tax income grows just before you reach the number of people about 6000 or so. After that income groewth stops, so it makes no difference whether you have 6000 or 25000 people in the settlement (excluding of course different bonuses you get from governors, buildings etc.). Is it EB feature or it's hardcoded?

[anubis88]

The more people you have, the more money the settlement gets, since there are more tax-payers.

The thing is, then when a city becomes larger, that city must pay more for your army. So if you have a city with 30.000 men, you'll get a lot of money, but on the campaing map it will look like the city is actually losing money, because so much of that income goes to pay for your army. Smaller cities pay much less for the army, that's why it looks like they give you a better income.

[Skuda]

The more people you have, the more money the settlement gets, since there are more tax-payers.

The thing is, then when a city becomes larger, that city must pay more for your army. So if you have a city with 30.000 men, you'll get a lot of money, but on the campaing map it will look like the city is actually losing money, because so much of that income goes to pay for your army. Smaller cities pay much less for the army, that's why it looks like they give you a better income.

No. I look not at campaign map but at a city panel. And, excluding the bonuses I never saw that settlement tax income grew larger than 1500 mnai

[Ludens]

A more experienced modder can correct me on this, but I am not aware of a moddable cap on city income. It must be a hardcoded thing.

[seienchin]

Allthoug it is hardcoded there is an easy way around it. Just add tax income boni to buildings that are tied to the city size.

[Rahl]

But the tax income bonus is not very high and if you give bonuses over 5% it becomes buggy.