Crown or self governing colony

[Lykus Cerebros]

I am colonizing in a MP with random New world.
So far I have no experience with the new colony types and when to use which.
I think the private enterprise is pretty straightforward. I used that for smaller regions with not much land to colonize and no direct threats.

But I am not so sure when to use the other ones. Both types have boni to colonization, but which one is better at quickly doing it.

There is one continent with lots of natives on where I have a self governing colony (established before I knew the effects) and one that is empty with a ton of land. I guess the self governing will be faster but would the additional liberty desire kick me down later or is it not that impactful?

 

[Lykus Cerebros]

Also can I change the type later and if yes what does it cost me?

 

[Aepdneds]

All colonial types have a further subject interaction sub tab with options which are changing the liberty desire. In total there are four -5% (-20% in total) interactions for self-governing and one -10% for the crown colony (the other one I don't know, would have to check ingame, the wiki is not uptodate in this regard).

You can switch between the colonial types every ten years for 1000 ducats (sometimes it is free, probably a little bit bugged), so you can always fall back to the crown colony later if you have trouble to keep the liberty desire low (but Leviathan is giving you a lot of buffs for this so you shouldn't need it, Alhambra is giving directly -10%, the dip rep wonders are giving -12% in total and you can now build up favors/trust with your CNs which gives you another -20%).

Further you can keep them loyal by developing their provinces, while this is counter-intuitive in the first moment deving 20 times gives you -100% liberty desire "short" term (which is the maximum you can get through deving) while increasing it permamently by 2%, with the 0.1% reduction per month it would take 980 months (more than 81 years) until the effective liberty desire would be higher than before doing this. If you keep it at -100% by deving further later it would take a total of 50,000 months (4,166 years) before this would be net negative.

I wouldn't worry too much about liberty desire (under the assumption you,or the host, have all DLCs)

 

[Blackmoore]

Keep an eye out for Vassal debt, as paying it off works wonders. You can also "invest" in forts in vassal land to put them in debt as the AI very reluctantly destroys forts. Obviously, crippling your vassals with debt is less ideal since you'd rather have larger armies and navies doing some work for you.

Also, at certain points in the game you can generate a lot of prestige converting religion, which you can use to placate your vassals, and having correct religion helps them out as much as you anyway.

Strong duchies privilege is nice too, and it's typically the last privilege I strip away from the estates.

 

[The Norman Yoke]

I am colonizing in a MP with random New world.
So far I have no experience with the new colony types and when to use which.
I think the private enterprise is pretty straightforward. I used that for smaller regions with not much land to colonize and no direct threats.

But I am not so sure when to use the other ones. Both types have boni to colonization, but which one is better at quickly doing it.

There is one continent with lots of natives on where I have a self governing colony (established before I knew the effects) and one that is empty with a ton of land. I guess the self governing will be faster but would the additional liberty desire kick me down later or is it not that impactful?

Private enterprise in Canada, Aus, and carribean
Crown colony where lots of native tags to conquer
Self governing where lots of empty land to colonise