is there any punishment for moving your capital to somewere not "de jure capital"?

[makaramus]

in my scandinavia game I decided to move my capital to sjaeland(name %99 wrong) from uppland
is there any consequances to that? should I move it back when I can?

 

[Dimitri Cosmos]

No. At least not that I'm aware of. The only punishment is that you will not be able to move it away to a place of your choosing for another 600 (?) months (=50 years). You'll be able to give its county to someone else, but then your capital will switch to another place, most likely to your initial capital, but I think it's not guaranteed (at least from my experience).

 

[Tuppie]

There are no negative consequences. As far as I am aware, the only reason for de jure capitals is so that the ai will roughly know where to put there capital (so that the holy roman emperor won't move to a newly conquered province in Africa after losing his current capital or some random newly inherited province in Finland)

 

[makaramus]

No. At least not that I'm aware of. The only punishment is that you will not be able to move it away to a place of your choosing for another 600 (?) months (=50 years). You'll be able to give its county to someone else, but then your capital will switch to another place, most likely to your initial capital, but I think it's not guaranteed (at least from my experience).

then whats its purpose other than making AI dedicated to have it?

There are no negative consequences. As far as I am aware, the only reason for de jure capitals is so that the ai will roughly know where to put there capital (so that the holy roman emperor won't move to a newly conquered province in Africa after losing his current capital or some random newly inherited province in Finland)

so its just AI thing? nothing else? thats it? :S

 

[Tuppie]

then whats its purpose other than making AI dedicated to have it?

None apart from rp I guess.

 

[Dimitri Cosmos]

I think de jure capital matters only to AI who usually choose it as their capital. Also, I think it's a requirement for creating titular HISTORICAL duchies/kingdoms/empires. For example, if you control Pest from 769 to 867, you can create the titular Kingdom of Magyar.

 

[MK1980]

de jure modifier for vassal levies depends on the capital. you moved it from sweden to denmark, so you now get some more levies from vassals in denmark and some less from vassals in sweden.

 

[Lewa263]

You can always move your capital to your primary title's de jure capital. That's the only benefit. I like to have two top-tier titles so that I can switch primary title and move my capital back and forth to avoid epidemics.

 

[majdavlk]

You can always move your capital to your primary title's de jure capital. That's the only benefit. I like to have two top-tier titles so that I can switch primary title and move my capital back and forth to avoid epidemics.

only while you are at peace you can switch capitals without the previous one being taken by aomeone else

 

[Lewa263]

only while you are at peace you can switch capitals without the previous one being taken by aomeone else

Good point, war does block this.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

rebellions are more likely to happen further from your capital

 

[Dimitri Cosmos]

@makaramus Ah, you might also be interested in this little trick about moving capitals

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...me-a-king-of-x-ambition-per-lifetime.1147535/

 

[Testeria]

in my scandinavia game I decided to move my capital to sjaeland(name %99 wrong) from uppland
is there any consequances to that? should I move it back when I can?

I use moving capital mostly for switching culture, religion and spread technology. Be careful then - if You move to some undeveloped place Your abilities (esp. retinues) would suffer. On the other hand if You move to Constantinople...