atomicstorm
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I'm going way back into the depths of the grey matter here and may be mis-remembering it but......
That whole -Soc name removed- fiasco years ago was about botting but they were doing it on their own LA (Longu I believe) which somehow enabled them to profit fairly consistently.Then with the botting on top made for round the clock profit or so it was reported at the time.
I'm probably just muddying the waters bringing this up and it probably has zero bearing on how things work today but it gives me pause for thought that maybe its not-or wasn't-as black and white as we think.
I'm sure there are LA owners out there that hunt their own LA's exclusively at times but I've not seen them reporting 100% returns when doing so-I mean 100% when they include their own 'tax refund'.
At the end of the day only MA can answer this one with any confidence as there is just too much room for variance between person to person to get a solid answer from any testing method we have on our end.
My observations from hunting my LAs is that it did not seem like tt returns were affected by tax (jenny Fer and girts have done tests) on land areas. It seems that tax on land areas increase the variance. This can be seen by some metrics that land area owners can put together based on the tax they receive.
I haven't been public with this until now but between April and June there was a bug where land area owners did not get the tax they were owed based on their tax rates... it was a full 30% reduction across the board. Those that have various ratios they keep up with saw this drop. Certain ratios like tax per global are very constant unless you change maturities or mobs. This was "corrected" a week before the June vu. I proved that I wasnt getting the tax owed because if tax is based on loot that is looted, I got less tax (much less) for the entire day than what I calculated on my hunt alone. So either it isn't based on loot earned and we don't know, or it is something completely different.
In the end, tax isn't that important if there is markup and the la owners have events (like my own). It then can become more like sitting down at a poker table with a rake. If the loot is there and you have shots at a big payout, the rake is meaningless.