Colonial nation changes?

[SuperSFX]

Maybe I just missed this in the patch notes but this seriously screwed up one of my games.

I was playing as France and am the only colonizing power remaining (I even ate Norway). I was expanding into the new world using the colonial CB. I fully-annexed a 9 province cherokee expecting a colonial nation to form afterwards. It didn't. Instead, I had to sit on 264% overextension for 8 years. It was brutal, nearly destroyed my country. After I finished coring the provinces, the new colonial nation formed. However, upon annexing other provinces in the same colonial region, the newly formed colonial nation got free cores without me coring? Not really sure I understand this. Was this mentioned and I just missed it? There were a lot of patch notes.

 

[Yxklyx]

Maybe I just missed this in the patch notes but this seriously screwed up one of my games.

I was playing as France and am the only colonizing power remaining (I even ate Norway). I was expanding into the new world using the colonial CB. I fully-annexed a 9 province cherokee expecting a colonial nation to form afterwards. It didn't. Instead, I had to sit on 264% overextension for 8 years. It was brutal, nearly destroyed my country. After I finished coring the provinces, the new colonial nation formed. However, upon annexing other provinces in the same colonial region, the newly formed colonial nation got free cores without me coring? Not really sure I understand this. Was this mentioned and I just missed it? There were a lot of patch notes.

I'm new to CNs but couldn't you release them as a vassal/protectorate?

 

[SuperSFX]

I'm new to CNs but couldn't you release them as a vassal/protectorate?

Yeah, I ended up releasing half of it as a protectorate but that makes it so I have to waste a stability later to annex them, which is definitely not ideal. I was still sitting on 154% OE =/

 

[Yxklyx]

Yeah, I ended up releasing half of it as a protectorate but that makes it so I have to waste a stability later to annex them, which is definitely not ideal. I was still sitting on 154% OE =/

I never liked that you could easily annex 9 provinces like that in earlier versions of the game - seemed way overpowered. I think with the new version it's best to annex slowly over 2-3 wars - even if the game does allow you to annex it all at once. The other option I suppose is to create a CN in that region first but now the CN has to core all of that...

 

[Yxklyx]

Note that per the 1.5 change notes - as soon as you core 5 of those provinces the CN is created and the rest get cored. Maybe you could have cored the 5 quickest ones - but it sounds like you are very big and core times are long.