Hi!
In the new patch, players can add non-state provinces from their non-capital Subcontinents to Trade Companies. While it's nice that now you can have trade companies almost anywhere, I think that there is a problem in cases like Ottomans or Austria, where you can add provinces adjacent or very close to your capital to TCs. In most egregious case, if you're playing Austria and have control over Hungary, then you can add Hungarian provinces to TC. Same with Ottomans and Anatolia or Bohemia with Silesia.
To me, that feels "wrong", because player shouldn't be able to add to TCs (effectively treating them as colonies of exploitation colonialism) provinces which would be considered part of the metropole.
One way of fixing this is to block TCs from adjacent Subcontinents - but then those Subcontinents would have to be smaller, as (for example) WE players couldn't make Trade Companies in Guinea Charter, because Northern Africa is Adjacent to Western Europe.
Or you could base TCs on Areas and block TCs from Areas with less than three degrees of separation from capital Area.
For example, woth capital in Scandinavia, you wouldn't be able to add North Germany (adjacent) and South Germany (adjacent to adjacent), but you could add Italy (adjacent to adjacent to adjacent) and beyond.
What's your opinion on this?
In the new patch, players can add non-state provinces from their non-capital Subcontinents to Trade Companies. While it's nice that now you can have trade companies almost anywhere, I think that there is a problem in cases like Ottomans or Austria, where you can add provinces adjacent or very close to your capital to TCs. In most egregious case, if you're playing Austria and have control over Hungary, then you can add Hungarian provinces to TC. Same with Ottomans and Anatolia or Bohemia with Silesia.
To me, that feels "wrong", because player shouldn't be able to add to TCs (effectively treating them as colonies of exploitation colonialism) provinces which would be considered part of the metropole.
One way of fixing this is to block TCs from adjacent Subcontinents - but then those Subcontinents would have to be smaller, as (for example) WE players couldn't make Trade Companies in Guinea Charter, because Northern Africa is Adjacent to Western Europe.
Or you could base TCs on Areas and block TCs from Areas with less than three degrees of separation from capital Area.
For example, woth capital in Scandinavia, you wouldn't be able to add North Germany (adjacent) and South Germany (adjacent to adjacent), but you could add Italy (adjacent to adjacent to adjacent) and beyond.
What's your opinion on this?
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