The "% of the time we prefer to establish a tradingpost if both are good." of Portugal's Duarte.ai file should be chnaged from 50% to 90%.
What's happening is often the Portguese AI after colonizing Cape Verde is then colonizing Nouadibuh or Tassaret instead of TPing them. This is costing Portugal a fortune. These provinces aree hard to colonize. They cost alot of money and have high costs per attempt too. Often Portugal will explore all the way down to Leone but still only be colonizing 1 of these 2 provinces, because it started colonizing them some time ago and just hasn't finished them yet. In fact it is usually just sending one colonist to 1 of these 2 provinces every year. If Portugal gets 100 colonists to successfully settle on one of these 2 provinces you can flush their colonization efforts down the toilet for the next 15 years or so.
This is real bad for the Portuguese AI as they spend a ton of money getting 1 of these 2 colonies up to 1,000 pop. And its bad once its up too as they get so little for these provinces as cities and get a nasty tech penalty hit for having another city.
I've pinpointed the time when most of these bad colonizations are beggining and it's usually during the reign of Duarte(1433-1438). I think what's happening is that the AI finishes colonizing the Azores and cape Verde and then wants to make another colnony instead of a TP, but the problem is the Duarte AI is not alowed to sail past Louga, so the AI often has to choose between Tassaret and Nouadibuh, if these are the only provinces Portugal knows on the west African coast by the time it wants to colonize again.
What it is doing once the colonization of 1 of these 2 provinces is started is that the AI is refusing to colonize or TP until it is finished and it often is taking a long time. It could be 1465 before Portugal even gets another city up if it tries to grab 1 of these 2 provinces to make into a city.
I've run the game with 90% instead of 50% and the AI is just TPing instead of wasting money on a city in 1 of these 2 provinces. Then once Duarte dies, Afonso V's AI takes over and the prefered areas for expansion are extended further down the west African coast, so it will usually just try to make a different province into a city by this time.
What's happening is often the Portguese AI after colonizing Cape Verde is then colonizing Nouadibuh or Tassaret instead of TPing them. This is costing Portugal a fortune. These provinces aree hard to colonize. They cost alot of money and have high costs per attempt too. Often Portugal will explore all the way down to Leone but still only be colonizing 1 of these 2 provinces, because it started colonizing them some time ago and just hasn't finished them yet. In fact it is usually just sending one colonist to 1 of these 2 provinces every year. If Portugal gets 100 colonists to successfully settle on one of these 2 provinces you can flush their colonization efforts down the toilet for the next 15 years or so.
This is real bad for the Portuguese AI as they spend a ton of money getting 1 of these 2 colonies up to 1,000 pop. And its bad once its up too as they get so little for these provinces as cities and get a nasty tech penalty hit for having another city.
I've pinpointed the time when most of these bad colonizations are beggining and it's usually during the reign of Duarte(1433-1438). I think what's happening is that the AI finishes colonizing the Azores and cape Verde and then wants to make another colnony instead of a TP, but the problem is the Duarte AI is not alowed to sail past Louga, so the AI often has to choose between Tassaret and Nouadibuh, if these are the only provinces Portugal knows on the west African coast by the time it wants to colonize again.
What it is doing once the colonization of 1 of these 2 provinces is started is that the AI is refusing to colonize or TP until it is finished and it often is taking a long time. It could be 1465 before Portugal even gets another city up if it tries to grab 1 of these 2 provinces to make into a city.
I've run the game with 90% instead of 50% and the AI is just TPing instead of wasting money on a city in 1 of these 2 provinces. Then once Duarte dies, Afonso V's AI takes over and the prefered areas for expansion are extended further down the west African coast, so it will usually just try to make a different province into a city by this time.