Quote Originally Posted by Conqueror
A question: if the Type 3 & 4 governments give trade bonuses, is there any point in building a Type 2 in a province that you want primarily for taxation (and not as a place for military recruitment)? Does Type 2 allow you to build better markets or other buildings to match the trade bonus in the long run?
Yeah, type2 can build 4 levels of markets instead of 5. So you can have a lot of really good income in them. Plus you can get levels of sea trade, plus you can get a river trade boost if there is a big river there, plus you can get a silk road or amber route trade boost if those pass through there.

So you can get high taxation in a type2 province too. It's just that they take longer and cost more to start. I sorta judge my decision on whether to pick a type2/3/4 by how fast I'm moving (in expansion), what the other provinces around it have, and how developed the city was in the first place.