Can a nation relocate its capital at will?

[UP-Cedric]

The title says it all:

Can a nation relocate its capital at will?
For example can the japanese player from WWW relocate its capital to New Zealand to keep it save?

 

[JaffiMeister]

I just hope that Lithuania can take Vilnius back as their rightful capital.

 

[Mac Lazer]

Well, from the WWW stream from the week before, I heard someone say that the Japanese player moved their capital to mainland Asia (which is why the bug occurred) so... yes?

 

[SchwarzKatze]

Well, from the WWW stream from the week before, I heard someone say that the Japanese player moved their capital to mainland Asia (which is why the bug occurred) so... yes?

Wasn't it automatic after Tokyo was taken?

 

[Fryslan0109]

I couldn't say where, but I'm pretty sure I saw a dev post said that the capital movement was automatic following the fall of one's capital.

 

[Mac Lazer]

Wasn't it automatic after Tokyo was taken?

It certainly could have been, I don't remember too well.

 

[Nelfe]

Yes it's automatic if your primary capital fall, you can't move it manually.

 

[Zlovie]

Well, from the WWW stream from the week before, I heard someone say that the Japanese player moved their capital to mainland Asia (which is why the bug occurred) so... yes?

I believe it was something like this: in the japanese surrender event, they should both surrender their homeland (everything connected to their capital) and move their capital. However, if the event does that in the wrong order, (move capital first) the wrong area would surrender.

 

[UP-Cedric]

Well, to bad.
I had hoped that I could evacuate my capital if it´s exposed to an enemy attack.

 

[Centerbe]

Evacuation is not in game mechanic, and change capital havent this practical sense. Capital is the symbolic place where central administration is.
Relocate it to another place dont mean the place is evacuated.

 

[Red_warning]

The player should be able to select the new capital if the old one has fallen, it's way too important of an issue to be handed to the AI. If you are unlucky you might end up with your new capital sitting right next to the enemy lines.

 

[UP-Cedric]

Evacuation is not in game mechanic, and change capital havent this practical sense. Capital is the symbolic place where central administration is.
Relocate it to another place dont mean the place is evacuated.

I thought that capturing the capital means a big loss in National Unity (Italy instantly surrendered after the fall of Rome).
So if I could relocate my capital at will I would still suffer a loss in National Unity but not as bad if the enemy took it from me.
And I thought they said that capitals gives the enemy extra points if he gets it when they explained victory points in WWW ?!
Well my mistake.

 

[Centerbe]

u said evacuate..... usually evacuation its only for keep safe civilians
I dont know how this relocation of capital specifically work. Probably is automatic.

 

[TheRomanRuler]

Capital is most importantly symbolic. You can`t move symbols.

It does not matter where your government is, if Berlin or Paris is captured. And if members of government get captured, you replace them. But you can`t replace symbols.

 

[Centerbe]

oh Paris.... so beautyful city

 

[Adonnus]

Well Stalin planned to move the USSR's capital to Kuibyshev if Moscow fell. I think if the capital falls the player should be able to choose the new one.

 

[LordOfWar16]

You cant move your capital manually, no. It was actually answered in the QA after one one the streams (cant find it right now) by podcat. Your capital automaticly relocates after it is taken by the enemy and you cant do so manually. It automaticly moves the capital to the next best location.

 

[Wimpola]

You cant move your capital manually, no. It was actually answered in the QA after one one the streams (cant find it right now) by podcat. Your capital automaticly relocates after it is taken by the enemy and you cant do so manually. It automaticly moves the capital to the next best location.

I would hope so, moving capitals may be game breaking like for say you move it to a island which has high supply limit and massive garrison.

 

[LordOfWar16]

I would hope so, moving capitals may be game breaking like for say you move it to a island which has high supply limit and massive garrison.

or simply moving the capital out of the way of the enemy to avoid an massive national unity hit because of that for example. Just as you said, maybe to an heaviely defended (level 10 coastal forts and AA) small island like gotland for example as germany with an garrison strong enough to just be supplied.

Imagine how much it would drag out the german-soviet war, if the soviet player simply relocated his capital straight to siberia for example. In most cases the fall of the capital means the capitulation of the country as seen with italy for example, except if you have extremely high national unity like the soviets in WWW for example.


Edit: found the QA of the World War Wednesday stream by Podcat.

Q: can you move the capital province ?
A: it gets auto moved when taken