Colonization as Castile/Spain in AoW (1.8)

[Vityviktor]

Is so much harder right now. There are too many provinces (5 provinces in Cuba and 6 in Hispaniola!?) and the same colonists as before. You have the first colonist with Exploration Ideas, but you don't get the second one until you get the third Spanish Idea ("Inter caetera"), while before 1.8 you had that colonist when you reach the first idea ("Reconquista"). I think Castile and Portugal would need more colonists.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Spain and Portugal don't need to be given the same ability to colonize everywhere they had before.

 

[Tharsonius]

First thing to do when playing Castile and going for mass colonization: crush Portugal.
That gives you a huge head start. You can get exploration & expansion before the next nation even starts with colonization.

That's 4 colonists with massiv +grow/year (don't forget the policy).

 

[TolHydra]

So? This is pretty great!

 

[Umega]

I don't think they need more colonists, just double the colonial growth.

 

[terminatordk]

its awesome like this. now countries can actually compete in multiplayer, and perhaps even 4-5 countries can colonise peacefully, or generally peacefully in same time

 

[Melggart]

Portugal didn't really colonized all that much in real life, the population in 1500 was something like 1 million, not enough to populate a lot of land. What it did was claim a large region, mainly Brazil and Africa, and for the most part just built forts and some cities in the best and most important places, hell, in Brazil the amazon was only truly occupied in the 1960s. That’s part of the reason Brazil is a multiracial country, they sent the men and they “acquired” the women in the region.
What I would like to see is that you could claim a colonial region, and if another nation colonizes there you gain a casus belli. If your military power is high and you declare and win the wars for the region then the AI would respect your claim, if you don't they will just laugh at your face, just like in history. Then you would slowly colonize and develop the region, a process that takes decades, sometimes centuries.

 

[Vityviktor]

I don't think they need more colonists, just double the colonial growth.

Maybe this.