COT's

[Dagfinn]

When the Netherlands gains independence and a new COT is opened there, my COT in Flanders is reduced to 2-4 provinces, witch I think is rather inconvenient.

Can I edit my savegame to remove the COT in Flanders and assign those provinces to 'Paris'?

Or is it just possible to erase the COT and then let the gameengine redistrbute the provinces?

Or do I just have to live with the Flanders COT...

 

[hjarg]

You get 3gc per every merchant in your COT per year. So don't compete there, let everyone stay. You get more profit out of it. At least by having full monopoly, you get +18 year. Every little bit helps. And you get +1 merchant for every COT you own, no matter how small it is.

 

[BiB]

And u can edit it out out of the savefile if u want. Just delete the lines concerning it. THough I've seen Flanders make a nice revival later on once.

 

[unmerged(1576)]

How do CoT's appear?

Are they random during the course of the game?

 

[unmerged(1598)]

The location and appearance of new COTs are random, but they are more likely to happen if you have many colonies or trading posts in a particuar region.

 

[BiB]

Though in Europea Anglia and Holland nearly always show up.

 

[unmerged(1576)]

Must have something to do the the density of the population of the provinces.... those areas arr traditionally highly populated.

 

[hjarg]

One nearly everytime pops up in East Indies... on the island somewhere there. Useful one too: it takes trading from about half of China. Another one pops in Easter Sibir, near Pacific. Is a COT for the other half of China and Nippon. Happenend in nearly every game i had. Also one comes somewhere in Central America.

 

[BiB]

Yeah, after a while u can kinda predict where they will show up and act accordingly.

 

[unmerged(1548)]

This was posted on another thread by Stefan Huszics:

'In Province.csv there is a column named 'CoT Historical Modifier'. The value there ranges from +5 to -3. Take a look there if you want a 'preminition' of where CoT's are likely to appear (higher is better).'

 

[unmerged(548)]

Of course, if an entire area is filled with TPs and there is only one single Colony with 700+ inhabitants, guess where the CoT will appear =)

 

[BiB]

I tend to let the other nations build loads of CT's while I concentrate it all on one city. Pays off in the end. I once as Russia had one city in the whoel of America and I had all the trade from the North come to me

 

[unmerged(1576)]

That would mean that you are better off establishing colonies in far off places than trading posts.

That way you can contol the establishment of CoTs, and make them defensible in strategic terms.

 

[BiB]

A well considered combination works best.

 

[Dark Knight]

It's too expensive to build only colonies, especially since trading posts have such great value for their cost (and lots of them will make the COT worth more, when it appears). Of course, you want to be sure to build at least one colony so that you can get the COT.