Quote Originally Posted by Ptah
Never, ever use low taxes. ... the population growth rate is much faster than that when "low taxes" is used. It simply makes the problem worse, since the population rate is rising fast, but none of your key buildings are up yet, and squalor level keeps piling up as the population grows.
I'm coming around to the same way of thinking.

City management is totally different than in Medieval: Total War. There you wanted lower taxes for a while to build up great loyalty.

Frankly, loyalty of greater than 100 percent in R:TW appears to be something of a waste.

I haven't had many storms or disasters or other afflictions from the gods, which effect loyalty. I'm well into the game and haven't had a revolt yet.

It may all fly apart when the civil war begins. We'll see.