Anyone who sells items for Luzent in the Throne and Liberty auction house always loses some units of the real money currency. The reason: taxes! The community discusses the meaning behind the costs.
What’s behind the auction house tax in Throne and Liberty? This is exactly what the MMORPG community is currently discussing on Reddit. The discussion was initiated by user Civil_Store_5310. His flowery formulation:
“Honest question. Who the fuck do I pay taxes to? I thought this game belonged to the fantasy genre and I don’t like it if I get fleeced by the tax office in my fantasy game.”
With this question he is referring to the Luzent amount (in English: Lucent), which is deducted from the actual amount each time an item is sold in the auction house. The standard tax rate is 20 percent. In addition, there is the castle tax rate, which is 2 percent on the author’s server.
You can get bait and salt relatively easily if you know where and how:
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How does the community react to this question? LemonZealousideal915 has an answer on Reddit that gets 771 upvotes and some praise:
If you want a reason for this – imagine people paying money to get Lucent. You now own Lucent. Then they buy things from other players and their Lucent finds its way into the economy.
At some point there will be so much Lucent on a server that people will simply trade it for items. At this point there would be little reason to buy new Lucent. This must be prevented so that the flow of money does not stop. So the amount of Lucent has to be reduced with every single purchase on the auction house.
This type of gold or currency sink also exists in many other MMORPGs. In WoW, for example, the Blizzard developers offered luxury items early on that were supposed to generate a lot of gold from the economy.
By the way, in Throne and Liberty there are taxes not only in the auction house, but also at the general goods dealers for your debit purchases.
What about the castle tax rate? This part ends up in a pot to which the winners of the castle siege have proportional access (40 percent) – although the winners can also adjust the tax rate. In the so-called inter-server guild battle, the guilds of the respective server also compete for the taxes collected by each guild.
There is also the tax transport event, in which the legion has to transport the taxes collected in their domain to the castle and protect them from attackers. If the Titan Cargo carrying the taxes is destroyed by another guild, the taxes are then divided depending on the attackers’ contribution to the Titan Cargo’s destruction. Max level 50 reached and now what? This is what awaits you in the endgame of Throne and Liberty.