Do you convert trading company provinces?

[deathbypie]

I am wondering if people bother to convert trading company provinces to their religion, or just immediately assign them to a trading company. I almost always wait to convert them, because I hate seeing a huge list of provinces on the religion tab. This seems a terrible idea though gameplay-wise, as this pretty much guarantees that institutions will spread much more than I want them to.

Also, if I was going to not convert, it would be really nice to have some button to "add all new and future provinces to trade company button", rather than just current provinces. Too easy to forget to add some random colony..

 

[Ultima_Ratio]

You can assign all provinces to a trade company in a specific trade node if you open the node's overview.

Suppose you'll want to convert them when doing one-faith, but other that that why bother?

 

[ecrurudesby]

The only time it's ever remotely worth it is if you're Catholic and you want as much Papal Influence as you can get.

 

[Lehnaru]

I always convert and culture convert trade company provinces

 

[caedussl]

Only in Fetishist/Pagan trade zones. For RP reasons. Won’t in India/Horn of Africa/Muslim and Hindu Indonesia.

 

[SKOTy]

Depends on the religion I am playing if it has extra missionaries/conversion power.

When playing Christian or Muslim nation I do usually have extra missionaries and conversion power so I first convert them as although TC land does not suffer any penalties from intolerance, reduced revolt risk coming from tolerance of true faith comes handy.

When playing e.g. Fetishist or eastern religious group, most of the time I add provinces without converting as the missionaries are better spent elsewhere.

 

[ShoGuL]

No, never. Pick humanism and there is 0 point -- except for events or disasters, you will never have a rebellion in a trade company province.

Besides, trade company provinces do not spread institutions but if you forget for a while, you run the risk of the natives becoming advanced. What horror

 

[TheMeInTeam]

You can assign all provinces to a trade company in a specific trade node if you open the node's overview.

Suppose you'll want to convert them when doing one-faith, but other that that why bother?

They are a bit more stable converted, especially if you didn't take humanist so don't have positive heathen tolerance. Without the flat -2 from humanist and a little tolerance these can get a little salty with ~100% OE. You have only legitimacy, stability, decisions, and NIs contributing to unrest reduction there. You don't get -2 from wrong culture or intolerance but that's still a bit iffy.

With humanist you usually have at least 1 heathen tolerance and -2 unrest from the group, making these provinces typically carry -6 unrest even if you have no unrest-reducing NIs or decisions at 1 stability. That lets you run a little WE, 0 stab, or over 100 OE more comfortably.

As such, it's at least worth considering the small delay if you have a particularly strong conversion setup (Byz/Spain type stuff with religious).