If Portugal moves their capital to S. America, Africa, or some other continent, how does that affect thing like 'Overseas Income' 'Tariffs', etc. and anything else to consider?
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I think it just swaps around. Their European holdings become Overseas, and their colonies become their homeland.
Correct. You will get "Portugal" on your american holdings, and "Portuguese Europe" (?) on Lissabon &co.
A Portugal with a dozen or so New World provinces and six provinces in Europe requires a larger navy to secure its sea lanes than a Portugal with a dozen New World provinces and six overseas provinces in Europe. Effectively, Portugal's income will spike after they move their capital because they will stop taking overseas penalties from the majority of their holdings. It would be the opposite for Castille, who has many wealthy provinces back home.
If you can occupy a large amount of overseas territory, moving capitol can be a good way to double/tripple your income. Portugal is great for this as they are a small nation at home yet have easy routes to colonising anywere they damn well please.
I would've done this were it not that I can't deal with Scandinavia being called Scandinavian Scandinavia (I own all of North/Middle America) so instead I just built 150 light ships at 20 ducats a pop. Oh well.
Hehe could be, but I forgot about one Danish core and ended up having to delay forming it 50 years, by the time I had already gone 50 ships over the forcelimit and didn't bother to bother.
Out of curiosity, are there any historical examples of transferring the capital of a country to overseas?
Portugal moved its court to Brazil when Napoleon invaded and didn't move it back for a while after he was kicked out.
It costs 1000 ducats and 4 stab, and you can't even move your capital to another continent unless it's isolated, so you'd have to do it twice (moving it to a European Island first)
B-but you can't move capital when in war!
Why didn't POR get kicked for cheating?
One thing you have to watch out for is when you switch capitols to another continent is that neighbors of your old European provinces will get a colonial expansion Cassus Belli on you.