Capital Relocation?

[Sin Qua Non]

Has anyone noticed any negative effects or penalties for moving your capital? Remembering from virtually every strategy game I've ever played that moving your capital usually comes with a consequence, I was leary to try. But once I did, I can only find positive aspects. I would expect some penalty for moving my entire seat of power. And this goes for the AI too, although I haven't witnessed them relocating a capital of their own accord. When you sack their capital, its really not much different from taking any old city. Any thoughts, or am I just not paying attention?

[Nestor II]

You just have to watch the distance from your first cities that are usually your best.
Other than that...

[Morat]

None that I've noticed, as long as you move it to a better place. The capital has an effect on corruption and public order, so you may want to experiment with moving it to find optimal place. The geographic centre may not be the best place if that means increasing corruption in your economic powerhouses, for instance.

[Zed]

Been experimenting with it. And it dont looks like there is any direct negative affects by relocating the capital, like the negative affect by changing faction hair, where the ex-hair get a bad trait.

SO to sum it up, you should always try and move your captal so that its in the senter of your empire to reduce corruption and increase order in your empire.

However, when relocating the capital I try to keep in mind the following. All new familiy members will start out in the capital, so I try and choose a capital that has some good infrastructure that will help to educate my new familiy members before i send them out to their own settlements.

[henoch]

i beg the lords; is this MTW-question?

for MTW:

no, where your capitol is, has no noticeable meaning. it changes due to the number of buildings you have there.(not the development-level, total!)

but where your king is...->

most often i got this *capitol-change* while raising many religious buildings + cathedral(16 turns),while the other provinces keep growing with a normal rate of 4/6/8 turn buildings

[Sin Qua Non]

Henoch,

This is actually for RTW. You can switch capitals in MTW? I had forgotten.

It looks like there may be no real penalties. I've found the same as everyone else; just keep your capital where it can have the greatest geographic public order benefit while still benefitting corruption in the largest of cities.