In my current game, I have a fairly happy society and have access at most times to 5-7 luxuries either by rights or thru trade. Depending on the number of luxuries and my luxury tax rate, I can get and keep virtually all cities in a WLTxD state. After one turn when I lost 2 luxury trade deals without the option to renew the deal, I got to thinking that I no longer know what the true value of a WLTxD is.
In the "good old days" it used to be easy to determine the opportunity cost of getting to a WLTxD state (monarchy gave you extra trade like a republic/democracy, rep/demo gave you one city growth per turn, etc). Last night I realized that I don't know exactly what I gain by getting to a WLTxD state and thus could not really determine if it was truly worth it to give the Greeks the 600+ gold they wanted for their precious spices, if I should just bump the luxury slide up a couple notches or if I was best served to just let my people be mostly happy without all the celebrations since I am playing a reletively peaceful game with a moderate sized perfectionist nation with rather limited corruption/waste in a republic.
I know there are a lot of very intelligent people on here that have broken down every last scrap of detail about this game. Can someone point me to a thread/FAQ/site that lists the actual, measurable effects of a WLTKD? I looked thru quite a few of the help docs on this site and searched the forums for something with this. Sp far all I have found is a couple of things saying it "lowers corruption" or "reduces waste". I know that from the manual. What I really want a list of actual (measurable) benefits per government, if still applicable, for WLTxD so that I can determine the opportunity cost of giving away my precious gold and/or losing revenue/science in exchange for luxury taxes.
In the "good old days" it used to be easy to determine the opportunity cost of getting to a WLTxD state (monarchy gave you extra trade like a republic/democracy, rep/demo gave you one city growth per turn, etc). Last night I realized that I don't know exactly what I gain by getting to a WLTxD state and thus could not really determine if it was truly worth it to give the Greeks the 600+ gold they wanted for their precious spices, if I should just bump the luxury slide up a couple notches or if I was best served to just let my people be mostly happy without all the celebrations since I am playing a reletively peaceful game with a moderate sized perfectionist nation with rather limited corruption/waste in a republic.
I know there are a lot of very intelligent people on here that have broken down every last scrap of detail about this game. Can someone point me to a thread/FAQ/site that lists the actual, measurable effects of a WLTKD? I looked thru quite a few of the help docs on this site and searched the forums for something with this. Sp far all I have found is a couple of things saying it "lowers corruption" or "reduces waste". I know that from the manual. What I really want a list of actual (measurable) benefits per government, if still applicable, for WLTxD so that I can determine the opportunity cost of giving away my precious gold and/or losing revenue/science in exchange for luxury taxes.
