I just thought of a pretty good strategy!
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weimingshi
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Wasting hammer for what?
Sometimes it makes sense to move your capital if the original one is way off to the side someplace, and you want one more central to your territory or your intended territory. You could build Versailles or Forbidden Palace instead, but these might not be available, or you might be saving them for another location even further away.
Another reason is if you're running bureaucracy, and you want to shift the capital to a city generating a lot more commerce and/or hammers. I'll frequently get a new city that's great for cottages, and seek to relocate my capital there.
However, just moving it for the sake of moving it, or for developing several new cities, doesn't make much sense. In addition to the hammer cost of building the palace, by shifting the capital to a less developed city you are shifting commerce (the commerce bonus that comes with the palace) to a less developed city, where it is likely to do less good with fewer improvements like libraries, universities, markets and banks.
Another reason is if you're running bureaucracy, and you want to shift the capital to a city generating a lot more commerce and/or hammers. I'll frequently get a new city that's great for cottages, and seek to relocate my capital there.
However, just moving it for the sake of moving it, or for developing several new cities, doesn't make much sense. In addition to the hammer cost of building the palace, by shifting the capital to a less developed city you are shifting commerce (the commerce bonus that comes with the palace) to a less developed city, where it is likely to do less good with fewer improvements like libraries, universities, markets and banks.
I've never moved my palace, haven't really considered doing it to be honest. I started my current game sharing a land mass with the egyptians, and built versailles (think thats the one, still kinda new to this) in their old capital, and now that I've run the Japanese off the face of the world I'm planning putting my forbidden palace on the landmass on the far side of their old landmass. Of course I have to kill off whoever is there, but thats a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
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