Colonial Nation Capital Locations

[JSparks101]

Right, this is peeing me off right now.

Playing as Portugal with all the Colonial Nations and NONE, I mean NONE have picked a good capital. 2/3rds picked their weakest province (Lowest dev and no other bonus). They all have estuaries, higher dev, natural harbour, even better locations provinces. 1/3rd picked a non-coastal province, and 3/5ths picked a province of different culture or religion.

I dunno if this is bugged, but it needs sorting as it makes no sense. At least make them force coastal if possible, and highest dev makes sense.

Thanks whoever reads this.

 

[Virupaksha]

Right, this is peeing me off right now.

Playing as Portugal with all the Colonial Nations and NONE, I mean NONE have picked a good capital. 2/3rds picked their weakest province (Lowest dev and no other bonus). They all have estuaries, higher dev, natural harbour, even better locations provinces. 1/3rd picked a non-coastal province, and 3/5ths picked a province of different culture or religion.

I dunno if this is bugged, but it needs sorting as it makes no sense. At least make them force coastal if possible, and highest dev makes sense.

Thanks whoever reads this.

I tend to find the capital will be the fifth one cored (immediately before the CN forms). Have a look to see if this applies in your game.

 

[JSparks101]

I tend to find the capital will be the fifth one cored (immediately before the CN forms). Have a look to see if this applies in your game.

Oh. Yeah, it is..... Still annoys me as I'm gonna go best province first

 

[Drachenfels]

Well does it really matter? your colonial nation will expand by order of magnitude or more.

 

[JSparks101]

Well does it really matter? your colonial nation will expand by order of magnitude or more.

Fort located in your worst province. Stating a 1 province state over a 4 province state with 3x as much dev and a harbour (looking at lack of free state maintenance). Major Trade Port sometimes in wrong node so collecting from a bad node. All issues, minor or not. Will effect the nation in their first 20 years, with some not even colonising at all (with at least 2 colonists each). I do think it really matters. And would it be that hard to set the highest dev/best trade value province?

 

[CheesySnake]

In my view, it would at least make more sense for the CN capital to form at the "original" colony, rather than the 5th.

 

[Daddl]

It doesn't matter too much, but it bugs me as well and should be easy to fix.

You could put historical capital locations in like for CK2, let it prioritize favorable terrain and natural harbors/estuaries, let it re-evaluate after a certain amount of provinces reached, and a whole lot of other options.

 

[Lehnaru]

As the colonial overlord, I should have the final say in where my colonial nation has its capital, for strategic & RP reasons lol

 

[Edlar89]

Choosing the CN's capital should be one of the things you can edit along with the name in the vassals/subjects tab.

 

[Kapi96]

Really annoys me as well. It used to be the fith colony would be the capital so it was easy to plan out which would be the capital, but that seems to have changed and it just feels like it's totally random at the moment.

 

[GoWithTheFlo]

I agree, if the player can't decide on the capital, then at least a center of trade (or natural harbour/estuary, etc.) or high dev province should become the capital.