Block Settlement Growth not Working

[CaosRL]

As the title says, it doesn't matter if i block the settlement growth of my subjects, they keep colonizing anyway, am i the only one having this problem??

 

[Johan]

As the title says, it doesn't matter if i block the settlement growth of my subjects, they keep colonizing anyway, am i the only one having this problem??

Are you talking about sending colonists to new territory, or using colonists to boost their development?

 

[CaosRL]

Are you talking about sending colonists to new territory, or using colonists to boost their development?

I'm talking about sending colonist to new territory, is the option meant to block using colonist to boost their development?? If that's the case then sorry for misunderstanding it

 

[RMS Oceanic]

I'm talking about sending colonist to new territory, is the option meant to block using colonist to boost their development?? If that's the case then sorry for misunderstanding it

Settlement Growth is when you put a Colonist on an already existing province to improve its development. Colonies stepping outside their regions hasn't been fully addressed yet.

 

[CaosRL]

Oh I see, then I understood it wrong, thanks for the help!

 

[Johan]

No worries.

 

[Gianvitus]

It Is not possible to add an option ti forbid them to colonise new provinces? It's very sad when a colonial nation starts colonising outside its colonial region

 

[Manwe_Sulimo]

Why is it so sad - colonial nations are too subservient in EU4 anyways, see it as a little rebellion

There is already a thread about this (god the forum is active nowadays, its on page 4 already): https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/block-settlement-how-does-it-work.1398893/

 

[Tomatenfisch]

If you have neighboring colonial nations, there is an event to swap around provinces, if one nation colonised into the region of another. It's just workaround, but it gets the job done mostly.

 

[zemaniac]

I have a similar issue. My colony has settlement growth disabled, but still uses it on two provinces, preventing me from sending missionaries there. It’s very annoying.

I guess it happens because there are no other free spaces available to colonize? It should still not happen though.

 

[Fued21]

I have a similar issue. My colony has settlement growth disabled, but still uses it on two provinces, preventing me from sending missionaries there. It’s very annoying.

I guess it happens because there are no other free spaces available to colonize? It should still not happen though.

Yeah i got the same problem in my Spain run - can´t build the required buildings in the caribbeans for the 2 missions because they won´t stop settlement growth. Got everything colonized there and had the same thought as you about that free spaces. At least it´s already in the bugreport forum, so hopefully we dont have to suffer through this too long

 

[Sfan]

There are now multiple instance of this feature not working but I still don't get what exactly causes it to bug out. Were there any specific situation in your save, or do you still have it with the colonist there to upload it?

 

[Fued21]

There are now multiple instance of this feature not working but I still don't get what exactly causes it to bug out. Were there any specific situation in your save, or do you still have it with the colonist there to upload it?

Still have the colonist there, disabled all my mods (no checksum changing mods), and he still won´t leave.
As i mentioned, a few people already adressed the problem in the bugreport forum and uploaded a save there. But if you want my save, here you go

 

[Sfan]

I know, I did too, that's why I'm interested. Generally speaking, I've had better results by finding the Steps to Reproduce myself and handing them to Paradox than by expecting Paradox to find them. Thanks for the save, I'll look at it.

 

[purplecake]

I think once they started improving province, they dont stop simply by you clicking block settlement growth. I had this problem with one of my vassal with colonizer, block it, it keeps improving, but after I take the province away from him and give it back, he does not send his colonizer to improve any province again up until now.

 

[Fued21]

I know, I did too, that's why I'm interested. Generally speaking, I've had better results by finding the Steps to Reproduce myself and handing them to Paradox than by expecting Paradox to find them. Thanks for the save, I'll look at it.

Well yeah, of course. But for now it can´t be wrong to have a few people report the problem

Edit: As far as i can tell, it´s because of the lack of provinces the AI can colonize. Tried a few things and had it with 3 CNs already after they had nothing more to expand into.
I guess for now the solution is to click that button as soon as you get the CN (or at least before they don´t have any provinces left to colonize)

 

[Sfan]

My own CN did it with only 5 provinces, right when it formed

 

[JoshEU4]

Are you talking about sending colonists to new territory, or using colonists to boost their development?

Hi,

Will there be plans to limit colonies to there colonial region? It always seems like a popular feature. It always frustrates me in ironman mode to see my colonies entering another colonial region.

 

[Nokington]

Hi,

Will there be plans to limit colonies to there colonial region? It always seems like a popular feature. It always frustrates me in ironman mode to see my colonies entering another colonial region.

Ive noticed a new event that is like a border dispute between CNs and it has them exchange land between regions if they extend outside of it. I can't remember it exactly but i'm sure someone could find it in the event files.

For example my CNs in mexico and colombia exchanged land because mexico expanded into nicaragua where the two regions meet

 

[zemaniac]

This is going to make me fail my One faith... for two anglican provinces... I even tried to cede them in war but nobody wanted them... not even Portugal or Spain.

maybe I can force the colony to become independent? But I don’t know how...