More tax income?

[Cznielsen]

What is the easiest way to get a "Rich" or "Very Rich" village instead of a "Poor/Average" one?

Since my current 2 villages can't support my army...

 

[Therion_Prime]

I heard there is a bug that prevents player owned towns/villages to exceed the "average" status.

 

[Cznielsen]

I heard there is a bug that prevents player owned towns/villages to exceed the "average" status.

That's not the problem in my case, sometimes it goes up to Rich for a day or so, but then dramatically falls back to average..

 

[briskojr]

Once rich, other cities will take their goods else where since your price indexes are so low (less than 1000) meaning they can't get a good price for whatever they're selling. So your city will move back to average.

 

[Mastermind]

That's not the problem in my case, sometimes it goes up to Rich for a day or so, but then dramatically falls back to average..

Well normally, it's caused by raiding parties (bandits/looters/etc.) which kill/capture your farmers. They have to reach bigger towns AND come back in order to generate wealth.
I always wondered why my city was pending between poor and average for some time. When I searched the surrounding area, I saw immense numbers of bandits scouting the area, because the game had spawned two bandit lairs very close to each other
I cleared them out, and my village is rich ever since then.