How to Colonize Un-Colonized areas?

Nukeitall

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• Aug 19, 2010

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Skurcey said:

also machinne gun (10%) and medecine(5%)

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BAH
I wish the tooltip was more clear.

 

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• Aug 19, 2010

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Nukeitall said:

BAH
I wish the tooltip was more clear.

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Yeah I had to read a FAQ to know about the machine guns

Now my Venezuela is fighting Portugal over our colonies in Africa

 

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• Aug 22, 2010

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colonizing the world - basics?

so i just played on the european continent till now and think of getting into colony acquisation...

how do i start making colonies? what are the steps?
i tried to send ships with some armies but could not land anywhere

can somebody just list up the real basic steps to start colonization
- uncolonized regions (i wonder if there are still any)
- already taken regions of other countries

 

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• Aug 22, 2010

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donnerknall said:

uncolonized regions (i wonder if there are still any)

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These are gray in the political mapmode, to colonize a province just put a national focus there and it works it's magic, having at least one brigade there speeds it up, but no further bonus for more than that, if the state (colonization happens by state, not province) is on another continent you need a naval base with enough range to reach it, that range can be improved with tech (I think), it can also be checked using the colonial mapmode. Another factor is life rating, it's that little thermometer you see when you click on a province, at the beginning of the game 35 is the min. life rating, but it can be improved with tech, machine guns, to get rid of those nasty moving things (like tigers and natives), gives 10 lower in min life rating and Imperialism and Nationalism (rather nonsensically) gives another 10 and one of the inventions from medicine gives another 5. Happy hunting!

 

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• Aug 25, 2010

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I still don't get it, I've got the liferatings techs i need to colonize, the province is within range of my ports, but the focus tab is still greyed out. When I hover above it, it says "You cannot colonize here yet" or something like that. What else am I missing

 

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• Aug 25, 2010

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Do you have a spare national focus?

 

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• Aug 25, 2010

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I should have, but I'm not sure. Gonna check when I'm able... I feel so stupid all of a sudden now

 

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Minchandre said:

Other than that, make sure that you select a coastal province when adding the focus. The entire state colonizes, but the focus must be placed on a coastal province (or else you get an out of range tooltip).

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can you not colonise from land, i.e. colonise a central empty territory in america from my neighbouring territories in canada.........?

 

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• Aug 25, 2010

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I saw AI USA and Mexico eat up the rest of uncolonized "USA", Britain even colonized Washington State through Canada, so yes, I think it is possible

Edit: You just need a port to start colonization if you control no adjacent terretories

 

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• Aug 31, 2010

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Colonization

I'm trying to colonize some tiny crappy island on the Pacific and it's telling me my current technology only allows me to colonize provinces with a 35+ life quality (or something like that), whereas the island in question has only 20. I've looked all over the tech tree and can't find anything to help me with this. What should I research?

 

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Medicine, Nationalism_and_Imperialism and Machine_Guns.

 

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I believe Machine Guns makes just about every piece of land on the map colonizable.

 

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• #55

You need some researches. Unfortunately, most are not available for research until 1850-1870/80/90.

What you can research from the beginning is "Medecine"; an invention that reduces the "liferating" by -5. So you can colonize those few 30 liferating provinces. If they lie within your naval range ...

But download the "Strategy Guide" and take a look at pages 50 and 51.

Yours,
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You've really made my day. I've been waiting endlessly for a guide since Paradox assumes you already know everything. I'm starting to believe that's one of the reasons Paradox games don't get to be sales hits.

 

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Medicine is available right off the bat, but some of those technologies are only available from 1850 on, Machine Guns is not available until 1870.

So you have to wait until 1870 before you are able to colonize every area that is capable of being colonized.

 

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you could also invade uncivilized countries early on in the game to help expand your empire before you can research machine guns

 

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Speaking of which, is there a way to increase your naval range?

 

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Svip said:

Speaking of which, is there a way to increase your naval range?

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Upgrade your naval bases.