Moving your capital?

[Treverer]

Hello there,

My question is exactly this one:

"Do you move your capital to a 'central province' when your empire grows or do stick with your original capital?"

There are the pro and con about moving:
- pro => distance = less unrest, and
- con => roleplay aspect, as "(insert your capital) caput mundi".

How do YOU decide? And WHY do you decide so?

Thanks in advance for answers.

Yours,
Treverer

[JeffSteel]

When I play as the Selukids, the first thing (well second, after activating the script) I do right at the start of the campaign is to move my capitol to Selukia. Makes holding onto the Iranian provinces possible and saves me +2,000 mina per turn in corruption penalties. Plus, I wont need to move it again after that, for it becomes Selukia, the eternal city, in the center of the Empire, which in turn is the center of the world. Has a nice decadent universalism to it.

[konny]

I don't think that anyone would move his capital as Romani or Karthago. With, for example, the Sweboz or Pontos I move my capital in many campaigns - but often leave it afterwards where I have chosen.

[Treverer]

I don't think that anyone would move his capital as Romani or Karthago. With, for example, the Sweboz or Pontos I move my capital in many campaigns - but often leave it afterwards where I have chosen.

Where exactly do you move your capital when playing Pontos? Eastwards or westwards? Just of curiousity from a regular player of Pontos ...

[konny]

Where exactly do you move your capital when playing Pontos? Eastwards or westwards? Just of curiousity from a regular player of Pontos ...

I usually expand west in the beginning and place it in Nikomedia. That helps me a little to keep the Thracians and Pergamons from rebelling as long as I don't even have the money for pacification. Since it is still homelands, I would say it is ok from the roleplaying point of view.

[Elminster12]

I always keep it in Amaseia. Can't leave the tombs of our glorious ancestors!
I have moved it with the Sauromatae, but it hardly matters for them...

[CirdanDharix]

I don't think that anyone would move his capital as Romani or Karthago. With, for example, the Sweboz or Pontos I move my capital in many campaigns - but often leave it afterwards where I have chosen.

With Kart-Hadast, I once had to move it to Taras. Only way to keep hold of Hamilcar Barca's conquests in Asia Minor.

[iceman7291]

I never move my capital no matter how big my empire gets. It is Rome and shall remain Rome, THE TRUE capital of the world.

[Narhon]

I keep my capital in Roma, the city where all roads lead too.