Region Capitals

[Walrus]

i do find it a bit silly when a place with a population of a few hundred thousand can be a fully fledged city, whilst other regions can have several million people there and just be a single-building place. I would rather that as population grows, you gain access to additional building slots gradually. There could a be a cap in various regions, and an argument can be made for America being the new world and only really colonies, but after that i think its OK.

[Servius]

Doesn't bother me. Once I figured out the system, I didn't even notice it anymore. Each faction has maybe 1-2 major cities, of which 1 of them is the capital (you can tell because it has 5 bldg slots instead of 4, and the 5th slot is always the naval building. The biggest port in your capital region is often where trade goods from your colonies come to before being sold off to your trade partners. This isn't always the case though, as with Prussia, where Brandenburg is the trade hub and East Prussia is the capital. That may also be the case with the 13 Colonies, as Boston seems to be bigger in trade, even though Philadelphia is the capital.

You basically focus your military production strategy on the regions with major cities while the provincial territories can field some auxilery troops. Or, you can make them military outposts and gain access to ~2/3 of your military tech tree but sacrifice a +4% bonus tax rate.

I mostly play as GB, and you start off with Jamaica having a military outpost, which is the only place in the Americas where you can train Colonial Line Infantry. I often find myself building the military building in Rupert's Land because the Huron almost always try to take it and it's a LONG way around northern Canada to get reinforcements from elsewhere in there. Once the Huron are dead I destroy the military building and go up the civilian line for the better tax rate.