Growth of towns rly slow

[lycanthropic]

I've been doing a tax policy where i set low classes taxes to minimum in the first 15 years to get a maximum growth, after the first 15 years i up it a little and set lower for higher classes for more wealth.

Where do i go from here?

My town growth is also really slow, 3 in habana, 2 santo domingo , population is happy, and taxes are quite low, so there is room for growth.

Playing with Darth Mod

[SgtDisco]

I tend to tax as low as possible for as long as possible, never normally more than 1 step above lowest. It can be tricky early n when money is tight but you just learn to prioritise what you really need to buy.

[YourDentist]

3 tips for faster growth:
1: tech
2: tech
3: tech
(economic and industry)
Before getting division of labour, you don't need to care about economic growth, cuz then you can usually not do much about it anyway. Same goes for population before getting the 2 first farming techs. Stay at tax lvl 3 until then. You will need the money for the first wars, you get a much better return for your money by taking one extra region in the early-game because you taxed as high as you could.
Doing this right is now giving me 25-35 economic growth per turn (only year 1715 now). Your best regions can get a growth of 70 by 1750. I've actually seen France (mine) pass 100 per turn!
+20 may seem small at first, but you really get great results after ten years.
Again, tech is more important than tax lvl, but lower taxes pays off in the end too. Also notice that the tax penalty increases much more between the high tax lvls than the small ones, meaning that going from lvl 2 to 1 doesn't really increase growth much, so don't.

[British-Bulldog]

If you can do this it works really well, what I normally do is if I have enough trade to keep my income balanced is just exempt the tax from the region you want the town to emerge in, I found this a sound strategy as a town taking 40 odd turns to emerge with tax, turned to about 18 turns to emerge, it's still alot but it can really help if it's Mysore as the port their takes AGES to develop :/

[BlueHawke]

You must always remember time... and it is not something that will happen instantly! However if you keep your taxes (for both rich and poor) low then its beneficial to you in the medium to long term... eventually you won't need to raise your taxes as your cities will be so wealthy that you get enough tax from them.

Town wealth grows two ways... either you have:-
1. a low tax on your upper class, who are the business owners and they generate more money for themselves and the community as a whole so you have more to tax.
2. a low tax on your lower classes who then breed like rabbits because it is cheaper to do so and more towns emerge because of the population growth.. then you can build mills/forges who's income you tax... THAT IS IMPORTANT... while a building says adds 400 to town wealth, you dont get that each turn just whatever tax rate you have!

But dont use one or the other... you'll need them both! I was just outlining the two functions for you

[british_general]

Sometimes I accidentally do something called "snailkreig" which is the opposite of blitzkreig and under the enemy rule, by the time I invade, I got something like a well developed town.with blitzkreig, I don't get the same thing