Anyone selling items for Luzent in the auction house of Throne and Liberty always loses some units of real currency. The reason: taxes! The community is discussing the sense behind these costs.
What is the tax from the auction house of Throne and Liberty all about? This is exactly what the MMORPG community is currently discussing on Reddit. The discussion was initiated by user Civil_Store_5310. His colorful formulation:
“Honest question. Who the hell am I paying taxes to? I thought this game belonged to the fantasy genre, and I don’t like being drained by the tax office in my fantasy game.”
With this question, he is referring to the Luzent amount that is deducted from the actual amount for each sale of an item in the auction house. The standard tax rate is 20 percent, plus the castle tax rate, which is 2 percent on the server from the author of these lines.
Bait and salt can be obtained relatively easily if you know where and how:
The Tax Office of Solisium
How does the community respond to this question? LemonZealousideal915 has an answer ready on Reddit that receives 771 upvotes and a lot of praise:
If you are looking for a reason – imagine people paying money to get Lucent. They now own Lucent. Then they buy things from other players, and their Lucent finds its way into the economy.
Eventually, there will be so much Lucent on a server that people will just exchange it for items. At that point, there would be hardly any reason to buy new Lucent. This must be prevented so that the flow of money does not stop. Therefore, the amount of Lucent must be reduced with every single purchase in the auction house.
This kind of gold or currency sink also exists in many other MMORPGs. For example, in WoW, Blizzard developers offered luxury items early on that were meant to draw gold out of the economy.
Taxes exist in Throne and Liberty not only in the auction house but also at the general goods merchants for your Sollant purchases.
What about the castle tax rate? This portion goes into a pot that the winners of the castle siege have access to (40 percent) – with the winners being able to adjust the tax rate as well. During the so-called inter-server guild battle, the guilds of the respective server also compete for the collected taxes of each guild.
By the way: This month, the castle sieges took place for the first time. More than 3,900 players are said to have participated in the largest battle.
Additionally, there is the tax transport event, where the legion must transport the taxes collected in their domain to the castle and protect them from attackers. If the Titan Cargo, which transports the taxes, is destroyed by another guild, the taxes will be divided depending on the contribution of the attackers to the destruction of the Titan Cargo. Reached max level 50 and what’s next? This is what awaits you in the endgame of Throne and Liberty.
