So, in my Luck of the Irish game I moved my capital to an 8 tax New World province from 4 tax Leinster. Within 10 years I'm getting 10x my previous income. Within 50 years I have colonised and/or invaded 20-30 more high tax provinces in the New World, and soon am closing in on the number 1 score slot, on course to take it from a superpower France by later in the game. At one point I am colonising 7 places at once with 3 colonists and still turning a profit.
How am I supposed to suspend my disbelief? Where are my colonists coming from? I only had a single 4 tax capital province! Sure I was soon able to conquer Ireland and move on to the rest of Britain, but only once I had a rich empire in the New World to support the troops. There are thousands and thousands of Irish colonists swarming all over the New World, overrunning everything in their path like leprechauns on acid. Once I had reconquered all of the British Isles both England and Scotland decamped to their colonies.
I can't help but feel that something needs to be tightened up here. It's just plain silly
. Although I confess, quite fun.
If a nation is fully conquered but has colonial possessions (like England and Scotland in this case) I would at least expect the original nation to disappear and the colonial possessions to declare themselves independent nations - rather than have 'England' now based in Antigua.
I would also suggest something like a settler growth modifier kicking in if you have more colonies than European provinces. So the first colony for a OPM would be the same as for anyone else, but having more colonial provinces - including colonial nation subjects - than European provinces should hit a nation with a severe settler growth penalty (e.g. -25, which is enough to close the loophole, since early colonisation would not be fast enough to compete with the larger nations). Or the comparison could be on base tax, since population is supposed to be loosely linked to that I believe.
Anyway, just my observations. I seek immersion.
[edit] I should probably change the title as I developed the argument into a colonial growth penalty for nations with more colonial provinces than base continent provinces. But I can't see how to do that
[another edit] nah, just disallow it
How am I supposed to suspend my disbelief? Where are my colonists coming from? I only had a single 4 tax capital province! Sure I was soon able to conquer Ireland and move on to the rest of Britain, but only once I had a rich empire in the New World to support the troops. There are thousands and thousands of Irish colonists swarming all over the New World, overrunning everything in their path like leprechauns on acid. Once I had reconquered all of the British Isles both England and Scotland decamped to their colonies.
I can't help but feel that something needs to be tightened up here. It's just plain silly
. Although I confess, quite fun.If a nation is fully conquered but has colonial possessions (like England and Scotland in this case) I would at least expect the original nation to disappear and the colonial possessions to declare themselves independent nations - rather than have 'England' now based in Antigua.
I would also suggest something like a settler growth modifier kicking in if you have more colonies than European provinces. So the first colony for a OPM would be the same as for anyone else, but having more colonial provinces - including colonial nation subjects - than European provinces should hit a nation with a severe settler growth penalty (e.g. -25, which is enough to close the loophole, since early colonisation would not be fast enough to compete with the larger nations). Or the comparison could be on base tax, since population is supposed to be loosely linked to that I believe.
Anyway, just my observations. I seek immersion.
[edit] I should probably change the title as I developed the argument into a colonial growth penalty for nations with more colonial provinces than base continent provinces. But I can't see how to do that
[another edit] nah, just disallow it
