So I was thinking about how close our Legions are starting to mirror EVE corporations and started thinking.

Right now a Legion base is both infrastructure and military base rolled up in one. On EVE, infrastructure such as system and region ownership costs money. If you don't pay you cannot setup or operate advanced buildings such as X-large ship assembly arrays for building supercaps.

To help pay those fee's alliances levy taxes against their member corporations which in turn tax a certain % of their individual pilots.

So why not have the option that now makes donating minimum requirements automatic to the legion. Most of the code already exists as the abstract "tax" you get hit by just for selling minerals.

So if this change happens, legion leaders can set an adjustable auto-tax which will happen after the mineral tax occurs.
A standard aidonium is around 17,677,527
After the standard tax you would receive approximately 14,142,022.
Now if the legion tax existed, it would cut into that 14 billion and change and that tax money automatically goes directly to the legion base funds.

Assuming an average "fair" tax rate of 10% the legion would gain just over 1 billion off every aidonium if you sold only 1.

Now this auto tax will not stop players from donating more pon their own, and ensures all players are taxed relatively evenly by basing it on individual mineral sales.

Possible abuses:
1) tax rates set really high?
Response: suck it up, or find a new legion
2) leaders who constantly adjust tax rates to give certain individuals lower tax rates?
Response: again suck it up or find a new home.

Right now donating to the legion base funds is built both upon honor system, and this just evens out the play field. If a pilot wants to donate 90% of their income let them. But this stops freeloaders, and you can always build the cash withdrawal base building to give funds back out. Or just set a 0% tax rate.

I love my incursion Nightmare. Makes isk so fast I can't buy cap ships fast enough.
But I attill disagree on Commerce module recovering a % of income.

Why not just tie the amount of cash that a player donates with the base output of resources? The leader would be able to adjust all of the contributions % so that contributions would be more responsive to each legions needs when managed effectively. That would give more of an incentive for players to donate energy, EM, Tech Parts, as well as cash. I really do not like the Idea of a forced tax heaped upon the existing tax, if it were implemented I would almost certainly quit the game.

It should be a tax on the minerals we sell. Some of us are not able to get on everyday and keep selling. Some people are gone for days at a time. I know I can't get on everyday, and the current upkeep costs have really hurt my personal credits. I used to have 12b in credits, I am now down to 6b. My upkeep is only 221m. An automatic legion tax would seriously hurt me. I am all for giving 10% of what I sell, but only when I sell.

Perhaps allow the legion leaders to set multiple tax brackets? That way people can have a lower tax for the n00bs that they're shepherding to awesomness and productivity or for people who need to save up for a big purchase, etc. Abusable? Possibly. Also, handy... and a way to punish people who violate legion rules short of kicking them.

The suggestion IS a tax on the minerals sold. I'm just asking that the tax is automatically applied, instead of leaving the current "donate money to legion" as voluntary.

If you sell minerals 30 times a day, then you submit 30 sets of taxed credits to legion funds. If you sell minerals once a day, then you only give taxes once. I'm just asking for the option to remove the "voluntary" part of taxes.

Afterall, unless you remove all production buildings from your base, there is no way to stop people from getting their daily production from the base. So they get to take, and take, and take. But there's nothing to make them give back, small or large. This gives the "give and take" back to legions.

Legions give:
base production
planetary defence bonus
ability to use CT labs and other base advantages like UST
ability for more people to help you with NPC's/players

Players give:
nothing that isn't voluntarily given. (nobody forces you to alert npcs, players. planets, or donate credits/ematter/CTP/energy)