Colonial nations as an optional feature

[jaxter01]

I think that the game would be better if you could turn off colonial nations. I know there are mods that do this but every time the game updates these mods no longer work.

 

[Kljunas]

You don't need to wait for mods, it's easy to do yourself.

In common/defines.lua there's a value called MAX_CROWN_COLONIES. If you set it to something absurdly high colonial nations will never form.

 

[Danfish77]

It would be a nice feature for custom setup; just a little checkbox that sets the value and stays in your save file.

 

[Canute VII]

I think that the game would be better if you could turn off colonial nations. I know there are mods that do this but every time the game updates these mods no longer work.

Instead of an automatism forming colonial nations, i agree, it would be more straitforward to increase autonomy + unrest for oversea provinces. At the same time the 75% autonomy floor for oversea provinces in no colonial territory eg indonesia should be removed. This way players could alleviate the declining returns of their obersea provinces by forming colonial nations\vassals by decision. Or they could send more manpower\soldiers there to quell the rise of insurgents. The degree of autonomy + unrest should depend on distance to capital.