Rebellion to riches?

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I played a good amount of Gal Civ, and just got Gal Civ II today.

Started a tiny galaxy just to get the hang of it. Anyways I'm close to broke so I pump my tax rate up to 100% for the heck of it. A planet rebels, but my treasury went from about -400 to +10000.

So, how did a civil war make me rich?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
At risk of stating the obvious? Because you put your tax rate up to 100%. Maybe the planet that rebelled was also costing you a lot of bc to maintain (lots of factories/labs) as well.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yup, take all of anyone's income and you will be richer.

They may also be very upset.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Make sure you upgrade to the latest version (1.4x). It includes a lot of bug fixes and enhancements to the game.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It is not pursuant to a bug fix; just the nature of the game.

Anything over 80% taxes will drive the morale down to the point of rebellion - no matter the version, or the improvements/enhancements.

It was not a wise thing to do - raising taxes to that extent.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
But boy o boy is it fun
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Na, you can get and keep them in the high 90%'s but it takes insane happy boni's
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ok I'll be a bit more clear.

Turn 1: I'm poor, -490ish treasury. I raise taxes to 100% as a test.
Turn 2: 1 outlying planet rebels, I have a treasury of 10000+

It wasn't the 100% tax rate, this was a tiny galaxy and I had only 2 developed planets and a few crapy colonies, so it wasn't the taxes. Yes its version 1.4.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
@ 100% tax your moral is only 1. Actually is happens @ 81% I beleive. Thats why your colony rebeled.

Treasury probably jumped because you were a bit more than 490ish in the hole. Anything over -500 bc shuts down all production. All the money that would have went into production becomes income.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If your treasury was negative by too much your spending for turn 2 would have dropped to zero.
So you accumulated all the money that you would normally have spent on production, as well as more from the increased tax rate.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top


Yea I know how that works.

I was trying to point out my economy would NEVER bring in that much cash in just one turn. If it could I wouldn't have been in the hole to start with. I'll just chock this one up to 'wierd bug/feature'.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What difficulty were you playing on?

I believe I read somewhere that some odd things happen with debt when you're at the easier levels of difficulty.
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, think of it this way. How much money would the US have if it took every single persons paycheck, even for a week? That would be a pretty large chunk of change. That is the gist of what you did. Now multiply that a couple times and you get the right number of people.