Does anybody know, how new center of trades are created? Based on what does EU decides to put a new COT? Once in North America, there was a new COT in english territory, I conquered it, after short time there was a new one :0)
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You get a bunch of somewhat close territorys of 1 nationality and eventually youll pick up a CoT there.
That's the basic theory, but there never seems to be a real "rhyme or reason" to it-sometimes your only colony in the area will become a CoT, either sucking in no trade, or all the surrounding trade.
It's a function of which countries have the most trade in the area, which countries have the most advanced trade tech, how far away the nearest CoT is, how much trade there is in the nearby area, and certain other factors, not all of which are fully documented. 
And capturing a colonial CoT from an enemy nation will almost always trigger the opening of a new one under their rule, because the same factors that caused the opening of the first one under their rule, still hold. As soon as that one is no longer in their hands their trade is looking for a new outlet.
And capturing a colonial CoT from an enemy nation will almost always trigger the opening of a new one under their rule, because the same factors that caused the opening of the first one under their rule, still hold. As soon as that one is no longer in their hands their trade is looking for a new outlet.
I once had a CoT open in Tahiti when the 2 closest were in the Phillipines and old Inca empire. However, the CoT only got trade from itself (no other colony or TP).
In my last GC I decided to crush Spains new world empire and decided taking their trade center would be a good way to start. As soon as I did another opened a few provinces away. This went on consistently for many years until I had taken all of Spains provinces in the americas. Basically, the game had decided that me having 18 CoTs and Spain having none was simply not fair, so in an attempt to balance out the trade a new CoT would open. So as long as the game feels you are getting too much of the North American trade and England is getting too little, new CoTs will open.
None of these reasons can explain why a level 2 colony in Tahiti will sometimes become a CoT. Tahiti is in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific. The closest land mass is maybe 2,000 miles away. Just too weird.
maybe the pacific dolphins are conducting a secret fish trade underwater.... we just don't know about it
maybe the pacific dolphins are conducting a secret fish trade underwater.... we just don't know about it
Exactly the point - there's no other land within thousands of miles, which is sufficiently far away to trigger a new CoT opening. New colonies in SE Asia just go into Delhi or China - or even back to Europe, for some odd reason - until there are quite a few of them. For the same reaons, you also tend to get a new CoT in Australia trading three sheep a year.
As England I got a CoT in Viti Levu that handled the trade from Australia and NZ. I think the income was below 40d. Better than nothing though, I had an unchallanged monopoly since noone else bothered with it.
Originally posted by PatMaster
I haved a Tahiti CoT with the enutmous value of 8 ducats
Just enjoy the extra merchant-not that you should really need one by the time you're in a position to begin colonising Tahiti!
Tahiti seems to be quite frequent as a CoT... Never understood why... It can hardly gain two provinces: Tahiti itself and Viti Levu
Originally posted by PatMaster
I haved a Tahiti CoT with the enutmous value of 8 ducats
That's pretty huge. Mine usually manages 6: it still can't compare with the Australian CoT I once had which had an annual throughput of one ducat.
I once had a CoT in Australia of +1000 value... It took all trade from Indochine also... Then an evil Portuguese CoT showed up in Sulawesi... grrrrrr
Originally posted by VultureGFF
I once had a CoT in Australia of +1000 value... It took all trade from Indochine also... Then an evil Portuguese CoT showed up in Sulawesi... grrrrrr
Freaky, truly freaky. Guess it just shows that anything can happen.