Taxes for Regions

[iperrealistico]

Could you rapidly sneak this feature in the next release please? My server is having huge problems with economy inflation. I need to tax players quickly, before economy is 100% dead. Some own a very large amount of emeralds.. way too much. I can find ways to make them spend, but i also need taxes... and what's better than taxing land property? lol

inside each protectionstone .toml file add:

tax-price: X money tax-every: X in-real-life days unpaid-taxes: unclaim/disown

And add a configurable message that is sent every time the user logs in the server! and every X seconds.

Example: "You have {time-left} days left to pay taxes {amount}$ for claim at {region-coords}"

[espidev]

I will try to see if I can group it up in 2.6.4

[espidev]

Do you have to explicitly pay taxes? Or would it be automatic

[iperrealistico]

/ps taxes pay "regionname" (or also the region you are standing in) /ps taxes autopay (toggles autopay on and off)

[iperrealistico]

A good levelling measure could be also a permission like:

ps.taxes.multiplier.0 (no taxes) ps.taxes.multiplier.1 (regular taxes) ps.taxes.multiplier.2 (2x taxes)

But that's something more advanced you could implement later on

[espidev]

Okay, I'll have to see if I have time this week, soo many assignments due

[espidev]

Okay see my issue is what to do when there are multiple owners. Do they all get removed if they are unable to pay taxes?

[iperrealistico]

@espidev they should all get notified... if no one paid, they are all debtors and shall be punished with the removal! :)

[espidev]

Yeah this feature will take a while to implement, been trying to do it for 2 weeks

[espidev]

Should owners automatically start autopaying taxes (will require a region upgrade)

[espidev]

The performance for taxes isn't going to be spectacular because it has to scan through every single region often...

[iperrealistico]

Should owners automatically start autopaying taxes (will require a region upgrade)

Could you explain further? i did not get that :)

The performance for taxes isn't going to be spectacular because it has to scan through every single region often...

Oh, why? Don't each user have his own list of owned regions? You need to scan the whole list?

[espidev]

Meaning that should existing regions be upgraded so that someone is set to auto-pay

[espidev]

Okay so I need to release a bunch of bug fixes in 2.6.4, so it will also have the renting feature half-complete...

TODO:

• tax message on join
• /ps tax info, with clickable text to /ps tax info [region]
• upgrade regions to have an owner set to autopay
• set a punishment rather than just deleting regions
• figure out a way to deal with rented regions

[iperrealistico]

Meaning that should existing regions be upgraded so that someone is set to auto-pay

Oh yeah, i think taxes should be automatically set to autopay for existing regions.

Okay so I need to release a bunch of bug fixes in 2.6.4, so it will also have the renting feature half-complete...

TODO:

• tax message on join
• /ps tax info, with clickable text to /ps tax info [region]
• upgrade regions to have an owner set to autopay
• set a punishment rather than just deleting regions
• figure out a way to deal with rented regions

Good work man!

[espidev]

I'm not expecting the full version (2.7.0) to be released this week or next week because of exams unfortunately...

I'll see what I can do, but there is still a lot of work left

[espidev]

Okay, exams are over, I can start to look at this again...

Time to start tackling the long requested features list lol

[espidev]

What is left to be done:

• Date formatting for tax periods, payment periods, and so on for merged regions
• Possibly a command to pay for all taxes due

[espidev]

Done for now, will be in 2.7.0, if you wanted to try it there are devbuilds on https://ci.espi.dev/job/ProtectionStones/