Every country already starts with their capital in one of the trade nodes in EU4..and you can move your capital if you really want to.
Are you disappointed?
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Every country already starts with their capital in one of the trade nodes in EU4..and you can move your capital if you really want to.
Some guys complains about EU4, they surely never played EU3 vanilla.
Oh the old days of EU3 vanilla... You actually had a reason to be angry.
I'm not sure Juggernaught really understood what a trade node is. It has nothing to do with CoT anymore !
No, centres of trade weren't created by a nation, they could be influenced, but they were generally based on geography. As this system shows. provinces with COT's or access to large rivers have stronger trade power, because thats realistic. Reality provinces weren't jumping trade regions all the time based on stupid things, they were pretty static based on how trade flowed through the world. Growing in wealth and stagnating as different routes were changed.
You talk about how this isnt dynamic? At the start of the game trade flows from the east, through Alexandria, constantinople and other centres of trade in those areas, making the mediteranean incredibly wealthy. Now you as a nation, if you so choose, can colonise strategic positions all along these routes, and divert most of this trade around places like africa, andfeed it up into sevilla, or further on if you can exert that much influence. you've effectively destroyed the mediteraneans trade power and taken it for yourself. Its so much more realistic and dynamic then EU3's COT system, which was dull and way less realistic.
Yes. When I said cot, I meant Trade Node which is basically the same thing.
So.. CoT's were created by aliens and since you lack the technology to create them and they abandoned the earth long ago you are stuck with the ones game impose you with.
And if I want cot, I will have to move my capital. How very realistic.
From what I observed; No matter what you do trade always flows from east to europe through asia and west to europe through americas. You can change the amount that flows but you can't change the way it flows. So this is dynamic?
This pretty much. It seems abit easier than other EU games, but thats a mere balance issue that even if they dont change, you could mod it in in literally 1 minute. So no complaints so far!
There are certain natural ways for trade to flow. Big rivers, Ocean currents, and wind direction means that there are not a lot of alternatives. Untill you invent steam/combustion engine, that is.
The system however is not in any way centered about the single province of trade node, and you do not have to have it to have huge benefit from trade. In fact, a lot of (non-traders) countries would easilly see trade giving them 20-30% of their income, just by the virtue of trade power that provinces give to them.
Yes you can change the way it flows. Not the specific node but from which node to another. At the start it funnels from india, up into alexandria, if you want to steal that trade you can force the trade to flow around africa up into node you're collecting from, and you're competing with others through all of this. Whats so good about creating a new centre in EU3? This is way more dynamic, creating a node doesnt have reallly any great affect. Why would you have to move your capital? Only if you really wanted your capital into another node.... Which there isnt really much of a purpose for. It gives you incentive to expand in strategic ways if you're focusing on trade. Go for the provinces with high trade power, steer it to where you can make the most money. Much more dynamic then AUto send merchants to a number of center of trades, create or delete them occassionally for no real great effect.