to COT or not to COT?

[sebas379]

I'm playing Scandinavia, it's 1583. I have colonised the entire North American coastline from Canada to northern Mexico and am working inland. I recently seized Chicksaw from one of the natives, the sole North American COT. That thing however, is A: landlocked, and B: won't core for another 45 years. my whole North American land trades through it. however, I do seem to be trying to monopolize it at the moment, got 5 people in there and a 6th underway.

In various other CT I had monopolies and I'veb een drawing a lot of money from it. This recently dropped because I staretd taking out the North American tribes, incurring infamy. However, I am pretty sure that will fix itself once it drops again.

The question at hand is now: should I just sit tight till Chicksaw cores, or would it be better to build a fresh COT in, for example, Manhattan (coastal and on the brink of coring)? Is there a real advantage to building a new one on the coast (other than the colonist bonus etc) because it's closer to Europe? Or would it be wiser to just leave it the way it is.

It's not that I'm desperate for money, I'm practicalyl swimming in the stuff, just curious.

 

[Dauth]

Non-core CoTs each give you a -15% compete chance in unowned CoTs. Much better to have a CoT in a core province. Remember you need national focus to make a CoT though. If its coastal then other nations will be competing there, you might want all the money hidden for a while longer.

 

[sebas379]

So you'd recommend a newly build COT in a (soon to be) core on the NA continent, but not on the coast?
And maybe build it so that enough provinces switch over to this new COT so I can destroy Chicksaw and make the whole continent use my new COT?

 

[Dauth]

In a colonial game I'd go coastal, I'd have tried to weaken/kill the native CoT before annexing it. If its worth under 300 ducats then if you take the province you can kill the CoT before the month rolls round. Now I'd say is too late to be optimal so you might as well leave it and live with it. Easier to monopolise 1 CoT than 2.