I talked with some players in the last few days, and they all said that the price of Cards still increased over time, eg basic home were being sold for 130-140 and now is aroud 290-300 SIM.
But anyway, 5% is an incredibly small return when you compare with other P2E games like RisingStar or Splinterlands.
Yes, population cards went up a lot because of changes in the popularity algorithm, but income cards come relativily cheap now. Sim h0lding rewards are 24% atm, but when taxes drop you're better 0f with cards. Maybe just wait and see where it goes?
Oh, I didn't knew about this difference between pop/income cards. Thanks for your explanations; I'm honestly thinking about getting on the game by following one of your "newbie cities" that you posted in the past, but I'm actually worried that I'm getting on the game on the worst time ever and that I won't ever be able to reach the development of "Old Timers" who got into the game when everything was easy and tax was low.