Converting colonies with my colonists?

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Can I convert existing colonies by sending my own colonists there?

If possible, how many colonists to I have to send to a colonial city (Sahara e.g., 1500 pop) to convert it to my faith and/or culture?

 

[BiB]

Broadly speaking, u can convert colonies with a settler but not cities. From 700 on they're cities. Settlers u send to cities don't change anything.

 

[HisMajestyBOB]

Sending a colonist when the colonies pop is >600 (>500 with natives IIRC) also doesn't change anything.

 

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I saw the Russian AI converting with a missionary a Turkish colony it conquered in East Africa. The colony only had about 150 people. Does this make any sense or am I missing something?
Wouldn't a colonist be quicker and cheaper?

 

[HisMajestyBOB]

Tha AI is stupid

 

[Prince Eugene]

Originally posted by HisMajestyBOB
Tha AI is stupid

Did you just figure that out?

 

[Castellon]

Originally posted by john heidle
I saw the Russian AI converting with a missionary a Turkish colony it conquered in East Africa. The colony only had about 150 people. Does this make any sense or am I missing something?
Wouldn't a colonist be quicker and cheaper?

Maybe He did not have a free colonist and had lots of missionaries to spare.

 

[unmerged(5822)]

Originally posted by Castellon


Maybe He did not have a free colonist and had lots of missionaries to spare.

Still, it costs a lot of gold... and it usually isn't worth converting colonies...

 

[Castellon]

Originally posted by Onslaught


Still, it costs a lot of gold... and it usually isn't worth converting colonies...

How much can it cost to convert a 150 people?
Plus there was a smile at the end of my post.

 

[unmerged(1047)]

if you send settlers to a colony with population 699 or less, and it succeeds, the colony will get your religion and culture.

Once it's at 700 or above it's treated as any settled province.

I was working on a set of culture events for colonies a while back... it ended up taking a lot of events which I never got around to making (I tested with one and it works perfectly, but in order to do so it has to be province-specific, so you'll need one for every potential colony province.) If you want a copy of my sample, email me

whitestar77@earthlink.net

 

[unmerged(3999)]

Originally posted by Sheridan
if you send settlers to a colony with population 699 or less, and it succeeds, the colony will get your religion and culture.

Once it's at 700 or above it's treated as any settled province.

Actually HisMajestyBOB is right. Only the colonist before the one which makes it a city can change religion/culture; meaning the one sent with 4xx population (if natives are present) or 5xx population (if no natives).

Edit: I vaguely remember this being referred to as a bug at some point, so it may eventually be as you say.

 

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Originally posted by Castellon


Maybe He did not have a free colonist and had lots of missionaries to spare.

would be funny if the AI is sending missionaries instead of settlers anyway......just one thought