A common problem ESPECIALLY playing in Western Europe. Spain with Portugal in PU. France with Spain in PU. England with France in PU. Any colonial power annexing other colonial power(think Friesland, Holland, Norway, or Brittany) My junior partner/subject is also a colonizer. Odds are, I got this PU after they've taken exploration and/or made SEVERAL colonial nations, some even overlapping with mine.
This leads to some serious colonial bordergore. I might have 3 colonial nations in the Caribbean, 4 in Canada, and 5 in Brazil. The desired result is to make consolidate these colonial nations, so I have one large centralized colonial nation in a colonial region.
The informal solution is a bit stupid to be honest. Release the extra nations, and annex them in a war. Contextually, why would you release a subject of yours, only to invade them, for the purpose of consolidating your colonial administration?
Sure, there is benefits to not doing this. This actually hurts the user. The liberty desire is bigger. In addition multiple nations with equal development have greater outputs of everything in most cases than a single nation. Furthermore, colonial nations each give a boost to trade power, and in some cases, merchants. While these things are harmful, I think it's in the spirit/philosophy of the game to let the player do what they want for immersion/personal purposes.
What I'm suggesting, is a check that occurs after an annexation(where you would "inherit" another country's colonial nation). The developers probably have a better idea of how to implement this than I do. I'm still putting my suggestion out there, though. I have two of them.
The first is a series of checks. This would check "okay, does the country being annexed having any colonial nations?". If yes, it would note them/region the colonial nations are in and check "does the annexer have any colonial nations?". If yes, it would note them/region the colonial nations are in of the annexer. If there was any overlap in colonial nations in a single colonial region, it would have the annexer's colonial nation annex and gain cores on all of the land, therefore resulting in a single colonial nation.
The second is a subject interaction. I would go to my subjects tab, and then select any colonial subject. I would click a button (presumably called consolidate colonial nations). This button would make note of all of France's colonial nations. It would check if any of them have their capital in the same colonial region as the colonial nation being interacted with. If they do, the colonial nation being interacted with annexes that colonial nation and gains cores on all of it.
I would love to hear anyone's thoughts on this/suggestions/potential improvements.
This leads to some serious colonial bordergore. I might have 3 colonial nations in the Caribbean, 4 in Canada, and 5 in Brazil. The desired result is to make consolidate these colonial nations, so I have one large centralized colonial nation in a colonial region.
The informal solution is a bit stupid to be honest. Release the extra nations, and annex them in a war. Contextually, why would you release a subject of yours, only to invade them, for the purpose of consolidating your colonial administration?
Sure, there is benefits to not doing this. This actually hurts the user. The liberty desire is bigger. In addition multiple nations with equal development have greater outputs of everything in most cases than a single nation. Furthermore, colonial nations each give a boost to trade power, and in some cases, merchants. While these things are harmful, I think it's in the spirit/philosophy of the game to let the player do what they want for immersion/personal purposes.
What I'm suggesting, is a check that occurs after an annexation(where you would "inherit" another country's colonial nation). The developers probably have a better idea of how to implement this than I do. I'm still putting my suggestion out there, though. I have two of them.
The first is a series of checks. This would check "okay, does the country being annexed having any colonial nations?". If yes, it would note them/region the colonial nations are in and check "does the annexer have any colonial nations?". If yes, it would note them/region the colonial nations are in of the annexer. If there was any overlap in colonial nations in a single colonial region, it would have the annexer's colonial nation annex and gain cores on all of the land, therefore resulting in a single colonial nation.
The second is a subject interaction. I would go to my subjects tab, and then select any colonial subject. I would click a button (presumably called consolidate colonial nations). This button would make note of all of France's colonial nations. It would check if any of them have their capital in the same colonial region as the colonial nation being interacted with. If they do, the colonial nation being interacted with annexes that colonial nation and gains cores on all of it.
I would love to hear anyone's thoughts on this/suggestions/potential improvements.
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