Can't raise local autonomy above 75% in Overseas provinces?

[vonHassenstein]

Title. I'm a little confused, I conquered a few provinces from Kilwa. I was able to raise autonomy in Mombasa and Zanzibar (now 90%), but not in Mizima, Tanga and Bagamoyo (75%). They're all part of a trade company. Mombasa and Zanzibar have "important centers of trade", is that the reason? Is this a bug?

 

[solidprice]

Best answer I found was either it was an oversight bug locking autonomy instead of just a cap, or its WAD to keep it locked for some strange reason.

Ming is locked as well, but worse.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Best answer I found was either it was an oversight bug locking autonomy instead of just a cap, or its WAD to keep it locked for some strange reason.

Ming is locked as well, but worse.

All colonies are similarly locked. That can be pretty perilous when trying to westernize if you're not aware of it.

 

[Boodas]

Title. I'm a little confused, I conquered a few provinces from Kilwa. I was able to raise autonomy in Mombasa and Zanzibar (now 90%), but not in Mizima, Tanga and Bagamoyo (75%). They're all part of a trade company. Mombasa and Zanzibar have "important centers of trade", is that the reason? Is this a bug?

Before art of war all overseas provinces had a negative 75% tax/manpower modifier making them rather useless to the owner since they were so distant. The 75% autonomy is just replacing that penalty.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Before art of war all overseas provinces had a negative 75% tax/manpower modifier making them rather useless to the owner since they were so distant. The 75% autonomy is just replacing that penalty.

That doesn't actually answer his question though.

 

[Zander]

That doesn't actually answer his question though.

Right. He's not asking why autonomy has a 75% MINIMUM, he's asking why it has a 75% MAXIMUM also.

 

[Galu]

It does not affect all provinces in my games, but some have LA locked on 75% and in some cases I can raise it to 100% and then lower it to 75% if I wish to. I think it`s kind of a bug.

 

[Hakuromatsu]

Definitely a bug; it's not consistent from province to province.

 

[Ikenos]

I don't understand it, but the common thread seems to be LA before conquest. You'll note that your LA reductions do tick down (albeit hidden) So if you establish a land connection, LA will drop to where it otherwise would have been, not start ticking from 75.

Did you acquire some through conquest, some through force-vassal-annex?

 

[vonHassenstein]

All through conquest in the same war. Sadly, I don't know the LA before conquest.

 

[Dorevai]

Happens to me a lot as well. Conquering India as GB and 1/4 of the conquered provinces allow me to increase autonomy above 75%, which is HELLA useful. I'm sure it'll be fixed eventually.

 

[VampireBoot]

Autonomy really should be locked at 75% maximum everywhere. Having higher autonomy leads to way too cheap annexations (1% per province) for countries like Ming, as well as countries that are stuck in permanent rebel hell because they have no tax income or manpower (again, Ming).

 

[Zander]

In my local version, I've actually changed all rebels to apply a long-term debuff rather than +LA on provinces when they win: LA is just too permanent of a hit for the AI to handle.