A question on BB and a question on Trade...

[Carbon]

I played as the Byzantine Empire and crushed the Ottomans then I conquered Alexendria and Appauli, and I have two questions related to that:

1. My BB is very bad, I think I already had a BB war when Aragon declared war, after disposing them and converting to Catholic my relationship with everyone got high, but I still had a very bad reputation, how do I boost this?

2. I own Alexandria, but I want to have a trade centre in Thrace, can you open one manually? If not can you influence the system to place one there?

 

[MichaelM]

1. Badboy reduces slowly over time. The only way you can lower it directly is to lose provinces (in peace deals or to released vassals). For more information, head to the FAQ subforum.

2. No, you can't do anything about it. You could mod it into the save file, though. Just look for the sections that start with "cot = { " and copy one of those, remove the merchants, and change the location.

 

[nightmorphis]

you can also create an event for the new COT

 

[Carbon]

Also what determines which provinces are alligned to which COT?

 

[MichaelM]

The game does it on the fly. The exact algorithm is not known, but it has something to do with the competitiveness of the COT. I think provinces are also more likely to trade in a COT in the same country.

 

[unmerged(4344)]

Distance is the most generally important factor. The mercantilism domestic policy plays a role, with very mercantile countries' provinces sending trade to their CoTs, even with other CoTs very close. I think perhaps religion or relations between countries also affects it.