Hi. I’m rather new to the game, and have reached engineers recently. Questions of opinion here:

The game is not really a city management game but more of an economic/empire management strategy game, right? We know that you are at the service of the crown at all times, you pay taxes to the crown after all.

But, even so, you need a central place for management of your economic empire. Or do you? Perhaps you may want to decentralize it and divide it into sections or regions or islands?

For my question, I’m assuming you have most dlcs, but even without them, how do you manage your empire? Do you have a central capital that acts as your “New York”/“London”/“Tokyo”/“Moscow” where most of your important people are, is the center of entertainment and attractiveness, and most of your end products (fur, steam engines, gold, ...) end up at or do you have a number of islands which you use as the final destination of end products and houses important people?