Taxes?
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@spoletta
"Sure, a guild can de facto control a city, by having the governor and by making citiziens only the guildmates, then applying huge taxes to non-citiziens so that they don't have pesky residents around. This makes sense only if they want to have as few players as possible in the region, because you want to monopolize the natural resources. If they think that they can profit more from the monopoly than from the tax money, they can try to do it."
I was wondering about this as some governors do not express interest having new citizens.
With taxes high it's pretty unattractive. I suppose with a high rank town though it has to be maintained somehow.