What is the right way to start the game?

Think of a country name and create a country, remember the country name cannot be offensive.

Dont forget to set your tax rate to 0 or close to 0 for maximum population growth.

and don't buy military at all.

Just keep exploring and building CS
About 2000 of them or so.

and buy bushels only when you need, otherwise don't buy anything.

Wow. Tough crowd.

Any different view on this one ? I read on many other threads is best to set the first turn at 70% tax rate, the 2nd at 49%, the 3rd at 35% and then leave it there. This way you don't need to buy food for at least 80 turns.

Anybody did the calculation to see over say 100 turns which approach maximizes the income ?

oops, wanted to quote this one....

Any different view on this one ? I read on many other threads is best to set the first turn at 70% tax rate, the 2nd at 49%, the 3rd at 35% and then leave it there. This way you don't need to buy food for at least 80 turns.

Anybody did the calculation to see over say 100 turns which approach maximizes the income ?

Ti if you want a honest example of changing tax rates I just did it in express. I used to do it in the earth2025 days. this is what happened for me right now.

I changed tax rate to 70 took one turn taxes jumped to 14,000 before expenses lost 155 population
dropped tax rate to 49 took one turn taxes before expenses went to 6252 lost 68 population.
set tax rate at 36 as I will leave it the rest of the set for commie indy. taxes 3455 population gain 4

at a 12.56 p.c.i. after loosing 223 population im now loosing 1280$ per turn as opposed to leaving tax rate at 35 or 36 as I have it this set. throughout the next couple turns I gained a couple population and my pci went up I forgot to check it everyone's pci will go up depending on buildings.

long story short after 31 turns I will run out of bushels next turn so I will build a turn of farms. Is this a viable strategy yes is it worth the clicks to change tax rate. I don't think so. I always sell all military in protection to keep taxes low almost every single turn i take that my friend is the way you make money for the first 99 turns.

what is tax rate?

ti: posts before serpentors were jokes since topic originator just makes new thread every week and asks quite often same things as did months ago. unlikely that he revisits on any threads he has made.

troll baiting in trolls seems legit