Moving Capital

[Narrowmind]

For what reasons should the capital be moved, besides wanting full control over the New World from the Old World, and I guess vice versa.

[Azunai]

capital automatically collects trade, so you can also move it to a different trade node to optimize your trade income (only really relevant if you don't have the DLC that unlocks the ability to set a separate province as your trade capital)

the leviathan concentrate dev/ pillage capital stuff moves dev to your capital, so if your capital is already huge, you won't gain much from those any more. so moving it to a new province would allow you to build up that new city with "stolen" dev. probably not a great use of mana points, but may still end up a net gain if you try to "play tall" or something.

also the location of the capital determines which parts of the old world are considered trade company regions for your country, so moving it to a different region would allow you to turn lands in the old region into trade company land

[Narrowmind]

Is it worth it to move capital solely for the purpose of getting to a new subcontinent?

[Kapika96]

Originally posted by Ratlegion:

Is it worth it to move capital solely for the purpose of getting to a new subcontinent?

On the basis that you want to trade company the things in your previous subcontinent?

Possibly worthwhile, depends which two you're moving between.

[Rodi]

Examples for this:
Muscovy moving to western europe so it can tc its siberian fur and any of the muslim land it takes (not steppes provinces tho xddd)

Morocco moving into western europe so it can TC west african and egyptian land.

Malacca/Malaya moving into india so it can TC all of the spice islands and south-east-asian mainland.

[Kapika96]

Originally posted by Rodi:

Examples for this:
Muscovy moving to western europe so it can tc its siberian fur and any of the muslim land it takes (not steppes provinces tho xddd)

Siberia is in Asia so you can TC it as Muscovy anyway. Although as Muscovy you should use the decisions/missions to move your capital instead. You can have 3 different capitals without paying a single point to move it and just benefiting from pillaging/concentrating and that -50% capital dev cost in 3 separate places.

Moscow > St. Petersburg > Constantinople. You end up in a pretty awesome trade node too, no need to move further from there.

[bri]

Originally posted by Kapika96:

Originally posted by Rodi:

Examples for this:
Muscovy moving to western europe so it can tc its siberian fur and any of the muslim land it takes (not steppes provinces tho xddd)

Siberia is in Asia so you can TC it as Muscovy anyway. Although as Muscovy you should use the decisions/missions to move your capital instead. You can have 3 different capitals without paying a single point to move it and just benefiting from pillaging/concentrating and that -50% capital dev cost in 3 separate places.

Moscow > St. Petersburg > Constantinople. You end up in a pretty awesome trade node too, no need to move further from there.

Except Constantinople is a poor trade node for Russia as a significant chunk of their lands can't be fed there (Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, and White Sea trade nodes which they have claims on the entirety of plus a not insignificant chunk of the Baltic Sea).