Colonialism stuck in UK

[Tommiy]

Hi, I'm sorry I don't know if I should be writing this somewhere else but I'm not sure if this is a bug or what. Colonialism started in england and it's not spreading to anywhere else, it's been a while, the meters even show progress in provinces such as lisbon but it's stalled, I thought it was supposed to spread to provinces in the same sea but it's not spreading to france... playing ironman, I have no clue as to what to do other than conquer some provinces there but I'm brandenburg... any advice or is something broken?

 

[awd]

It would help if you posted a screenshot.

 

[fyfaendeluxe]

It's not broken, colonialism will only spread across sea tiles if there are positive relations, and with france and england normally rivalling each other that's not happening.

The easiest way for you to get it is by developing one of your provinces, you can force any institution to spawn in any province(after it first being discovered), by putting ~2000 MP into development. Berlin is a good province to develop, your capital already gets a discount based on your size, and cloth is both a valuable trade good, and offsets the bad terrain.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

The most broken part of this one is that the AI often utterly fails to actually get a colonial nation in decent time, which is the other criteria that quickly spreads it aside adjacency/positive relations + sea zone.

If Castile/Portugal/France weren't such abject jokes at colonization they'd consistently get spread from having CN regardless of spawn point. They often fail.

 

[CplKatie]

If you don't have the newest two content dlc's then for some reason Colonialism will take an extra 20ish years to pop and almost always in England. Colonialism has very tiny factors to growing, and if it doesn't pop along the english channel then england has to embrace it first before france gets it. I almost always fire Colonialism myself by developping my trade node modifier provinces since it kills 2 birds with 1 stone. Once its fully present in one province then you can usually patiently wait for it to become affordable to you as it grows. Its main way of growing is via Neighboring provinces that have it or having a new world colony and then it grows in your capital and your coastal provinces.