Colony disappearing

[unmerged(201178)]

I'm playing EU IV 1.7.3 on OSX.

I have a colony with 950 citizens when I decided to withdraw my colonist to settle the adjacent province.

After he reaches, my old colony (at 980) disappears. My ships are forced out of the harbour and the province is empty again.

I have troops stationed so no uprising or anything. The colony just disappears.

 

[unmerged(201178)]

Ok I found the reason: It happens when I use the tag cheat in the console.

When I tag another country and then switch back, my province that no longer has a colonist simply vanishes.

 

[AndrewT]

Not a tech support issue so moved to main forum. If the community agrees it's likely to be a bug, post in Bug Reports please.

 

[DDRJake]

The reason for this is that an AI country will not support more colonies than it has colonists, so they abandon old colonies.