Interesting concept….

Jammin_Mas, this is something the FNA uses, a group that has been around for a long time. Not as long as the LoN, But still, a long time.
1. Federation Nations Alliance. Composed of multiple close nations that protect and support each other.
Like a LoN, but closer. Same ideals though.
2.Multiple Nations are enforcing this, and this is what we sell for. With the recent spring of great places to sell and companies rising, this is our part.
Don’t like it? Don’t ask stupid questions.
3. This is for those curious of our peace group, and giving them the range of prices within and without.More of this are expected 🙂
4.Take note of your crew name.
The only outrageous thing is how uneeded you are on here, if you don’t want to buy this stone, (which is a relatively good price considering what some sell for) 3+.
I mean really, we’re giving others the chance to get some pretty cheap items, it’s good to tell others.
Really, don’t comment and start something extremely Unnecessary.
Good day.

@Wilson @OfficialRS @Chasedillon123 This is a terrible deal. This will only be a burden on the revenue that FN members can bring into their country’s economy. Which means that NO ONE would want to join because it would hinder their economic growth. Also through LOGICAL thinking you should know that there are only three outcomes of this policy.

1. The continuous burden to the Federated Nations’ economic growth.

2. The discouragement of Federated Nations members trading with each other because they could sell products at a decent price and make more money by trading with foreign nations rather than ones in the alliance group due to less revenue and a reduction in cooperativity.

3. BOTH!

I know these are the exact opposite results of your intentions, but this plan will not work. Another policy has to be made.

What you’re doing is technically protectionism. This is good news for your crew members who don’t have a lot of money to buy things like God sets. It’s bad news for your crew’s business people however.

If someone wants to buy something like a God set, there is enough foreign supply to make a 20% price hike for FNA goods very unappealing. This means foreign buyers will go elsewhere instead. So your vendors will only be able to sell goods at the lower discount price within your own crew (if they for some reason decide to adhere to these new tax policies).

This will have two main effects:

#1 Your vendors will be making less money for the same amount of work. This won’t make them happy or fill their purses.
#2 Your crew will not be getting any money from external foreign sources. There will be less money in circulation within your crew (especially if people continue buying things from foreign sources). Less money leads to deflation. Your internal prices will drop over time.

Because of #2, your prices will become affordable again on the international market. Foreign investors will flock to buy your cheap wares and you’ll be left wondering why you didn’t make more money despite your tax hike. Welcome to the world of a sweat shop.

Example:

1. 64x stone costs $2.-. You add the taxes. It’s now $1.70 internally and $2.40 externally. You have say $20’000 split among all your crew members.
2. No one from outside buys your stone any more. Your poor crew members are happy, your vendors not so much. They only make $1.70 a stack now.
3. People continue buying things they need from foreign vendors. Your crew’s value of $20’000 begins to shrink. After some time it’s only $12’000.
4. The poor players are even poorer (because your crew’s total value has dropped and the only players who’ve got any money supplies are your vendors), so they buy less stone these days. A stack of stone costs more (proportionally) within your crew than it did before the tax hike, even though the price hasn’t changed! Your vendors have tons of unsold stone, so they lower the price to move stock and make more profit for themselves. It’s now worth $1.35 a stack internally.
5. Now that a stack’s worth $1.50 with no taxes, foreign investors find your offer attractive. The 20% tax means they only have to pay $1.80 for a stack!
6. Your stone stacks are all bought out for $1.80 a stack by foreign investors. Your vendors have made a loss of $0.20 for every stone stack sold + whatever they lost in the past weeks or months leading up to the price drop.

So in a nutshell, your prices will drop until your foreign stone price is worth the same amount as one stack is currently worth on the international market ($2.-). If this doesn’t happen, you won’t be able to sell common goods. The result is that you’re just selling things cheaper to your own crew members (and not making as much money as you potentially could). Thus, why introduce a foreign tax at all? The only way this could be of benefit to you is if you exclusively sell very rare, very expensive items which are in high demand.

Cheap offers within your crew is not necessarily a not a bad idea, however. BE vendors sometimes make *special* crew offers for example. So if you’re a new recruit and want to buy a set of God, you get it at a cheaper rate in the BE than you would from some other crew. This provides incentive to new players to join the crew, though one must say that the wares offered at a cheaper price are usually the ones that aren’t selling anywhere else.

Pssht. Ima crash this crew. Lol