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EU4 - Development Diary - 10th of December 2018

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Good day all, and welcome to this week's Dev Diary for EUIV. We have a habit of getting these live early for you, but today it's a whole day early. Reason being is that tomorrow we release Golden Century and the 1.28 Spain Update, so today we're making the Patch Notes for all to comb through and find all the changes big and small.

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# Expansion Features
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- New Minority Expulsion feature giving you the ability to make those rebels someone else problem.
- Establish Orders in your states or in your colonial subjects states.
- Added Sufi Orders for a strong independent Andalusia/Granada.
- Build the pride of your navy, the Flagship to promote your presence on the sea.
- Added Naval Barrage to complement the Artillery Barrage.
- Added 6 new government reforms unique to Pirate Republics for Dharma owners, and 3 decisions with similar effects for non-Dharma owners.
- Added 8 dynamic historical events to spawn pirate nations
- Added Pirate missions. Yarr!
- Added Council of the Indies government reform for Dharma owners
- Added Pirate Republics government reform and legacy government
- Added decision to become a pirate republic
- Added naval doctrines for Iberian for Rule Britannia owners
- Added Castile and Spain Missions.
- Added Aragonese Missions.
- Added Portuguese Missions.
- Added Granada and Andalusia Missions.
- Added Holy Order & Sufi Order tied events.
- Added Flagship events.
- Added events for Minority Expulsion.
- Added Moroccan and Tunisian missions


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# Free Features
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- Added 10 free missions for Navarra
- Added Andalusian ideas
- Added Berber missions
- Added Brazilian culture. Emerges from Portuguese provinces and nations in South America
- Added Mexican culture.
- Added Startup Screen content for Nahuatl and Mayan religion nations
- Added national ideas for Asturias
- Added national ideas for Barbary Pirates
- Added national ideas for Morocco
- Added national ideas for Texas
- Added national ideas for Tunis
- Added startup screen for Aragon
- Added startup screen for North African nations
- Overhauled the map for the Spanish Main
- Overhauled the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb region
- Separated national idea sets for Castile and Spain
- Granada Civil War events
- The Mesta events for Castile/Spain
- Flee to Brazil decision for Portugal.
- Stirrings in the South event for Morocco
- Sublimis Deus event for Iberian Catholics


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# Gamebalance
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# Economy
- Institutions now provide a trade company efficiency value to replace tech disparity bonus. It takes the latest embraced institution in the native province and adds with the latest embraced institution with the trade company owners value. This efficiency is then multiplied with the trade goods produced bonus.
- Feudalism, Renaissance, Colonialism, Printing Press have Trade Company efficiency of 0
- Global Trade have a Trade Compnay efficiency of 0.1
- Manufactories have a Trade Company efficiency of 0.2
- Enlightenment have a Trade Company efficiency of 0.3

# Governments
- Nerfed Lottery election a tiny bit, candidates have -1 weight on their non-primary stats
- Reduced max potential age of Lottery candidates
- Can no longer get the The Four Kumaras event if your government can't have heirs.

# Units
- Galleys no longer get -2 penalty to dice roll when not in inland sea. (They still don't get their +100% bonus though!)

# Ideas
- CN 1st Idea now gives 0.5 republican tradition
- CN 3rd Idea now gives -10% build cost reduction
- CN Idea Tradition now give no penalties from wrong religion.
- Diplomatic 3rd idea switched out for +1 Diplomat
- Espionage 3rd idea lost 10% Province Trade Power Modifier.
- Espionage 4th idea switched out for 20% AE Impact.
- Espionage 5th idea buffed with Claim Fabrication onbehalf of Vassals.
- Expansion 3rd idea buffed to 20 Settler Growth.
- Expansion 4th idea switched out to be -50% Rival Border Fort Maintenance & -20% CoT Upgrade Cost(Dharma).
- Expansion 6th idea switched out to be 1 colonist & 5% Settler Chance
- Expansion Finisher now gives +5 States instead of Maintenance
- Exploration 1st idea and 2nd idea switched places.
- Exploration 4th idea nerfed to 10 Settler Growth.
- Exploration 5th idea tariffs nerfed to 10% and given 20% Envoy Travel Time.
- Exploration 6th idea switched to give -25% Expel Minority Cost(Golden Century) or 5% Settler Chance(Non-Golden Century).
- Humanist 3rd idea nerfed to 2 tolerance of heretic.
- Humanist 7th idea nerfed to 2 tolerance of heathens.
- Increased max polish provinces for forming PLC as LIT to 32.
- Influence 2nd idea switched out for -15% subject liberty desire
- Influence 4th idea switched out for +1 diplomatic relations
- Influence 6th idea lost +1 diplomatic relations
- Innovative 2nd idea switched out to be 50% Innovativeness Gain(Rule Britannia) or -5% Idea Cost(Non-Rule Britannia).
- Innovative 5th idea switched out to be 25% Institution Spread.
- Maritime 1st idea switched to 100% Naval Tradition from Trade.
- Maritime 6th idea switched to +1 Free Leader and -25% Admiral Cost
- Maritime 7th idea buffed to give +25% Privateering efficiency.
- Naval 4th idea switched out for 1 Yearly Naval Tradition.
- Quantity 5th idea switched out for 33% Supply Limit Modifier.
- Religious 4th idea buffed to have 2 Tolerance of Own Faith.
- Religious 6th idea switched out to be -50% Missionary Maintenance Cost.
- Aragonese ambition changed to +1 artillery fire
- Navarran idea 'End of the Fueros' now gives 25% reduced autonomy change cooldown instead of -10% stability cost
- Replaced Berber (group) Hostile Core Creation Cost tradition with -0.25 Naval Attrition

# War & Peace
- Overlord can force non-voluntary subjects in the same war to transfer occupied provinces

# Other
- Clergy now gives locally -25% missionary cost when happy and -10% when neutral
- Missionary Maintenance no longer only operates on the base strength but instead it is a percentage of how much progress you get. So now as long as you pay money, you will always get some progress.
- Missionary maintenance cost now costs development^(1+local autonomy)
- No penalty for low religious tolerance idea now also gives 100% religious unity
- Vassal Integration Act back to it's good ol' 20% cheaper integration modifier.
- Fix CONTROL_DEVASTATION_IMPACT back to -1
- Needs 50% of your development on target continent to move your capital there.


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# AI
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# Other
- AI should drop settlement growth to colonize when possible
- Allow some AI deficit during peacetime
- Fix wartime deficit spending
- Fixed AI converting provinces when it has no penalties
- Fixed AI pirates forming trade leagues
- Further reduced use of expensive edicts
- End result of EvaluateProvince is modifiable through script
- Selection of armies to go on invasions (overseas) does now consider potential threats to homeland and will be smaller if necessary
- Region assignments are now recalculated whenever the threat to the homeland changes considerably
- If there is a threat to the homeland these regions will have a much higher priority when assigning AI agents to regions
- If not threatened, the homeland has higher priority in region assignment, if enough armies are available
- On the province level provinces close to the own country are now preferred when looking at what to siege/where to defend
- Armies running away will still try to find a safe place, but provinces that require using military access or long walks will have lower priority
- Some AI mapmodes now have icons


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# Interface
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# Other
- Moved Privacy Policy button up above Exit buttons in the in-game menu


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# Usermodding
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# Triggers & Effects
- Add has_flagship trigger that check if the specified country have a flagship (not a captured one)
- Added native_policy trigger and effect
- Add create_admiral_ex effect
- Added province trigger expelling_minorities_from used on a colony to determine if it is being used as the endpoint of minority expulsion from a specific province (e.g. expelling_minorities_from = ROOT)
- Added support for "total_pips = <number>" to trigger "has_leader_with".
- can_have_center_of_reformation_trigger now checks that province is not expelling minorities.

# On Actions
- Add on_flagship_captured
- Add on_flagship_destroyed

# Other
- Added attribute disallowed_trade_goods
- Game Controller support is now enbled by console commands enable_game_controller and works in Release


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# Script
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# Decisions
- Decisions to form Tunis and Morocco are no longer restricted to Berbers based on capital area. Tlemcen and Algiers can now form Tunis or Morocco.
- Forming Brazil, California, La Plata, Mexico, Texas, or USA will now change your primary culture to American, Brazilian, or Mexican as appropriate.

# Events
- Added Tortoise Herding
- Cultural Ties Weakened event radically altered. Now spreads Mexican, American, and Brazilian cultures depending on context.
- Iberian Wedding will no longer fire for Castile if it owns less than 25 provinces, or for Aragon if it owns less than 16 provinces
- WiH Isabella event now has less stringent triggers

# Ideas
- Added national ideas for pirate nations

# Setup
- Added Granada core to Ceuta
- Altered trade winds so that the Caribbean is more reachable from Iberia while Brazil is slightly out of reach for Castile at tech 5
- Changed Arguin to Berber culture
- Palembang now exists in 1444 as a monarchy with Wu culture.

# Other
- Fixed define_ruler mismatch of skills/name in tooltip and actual execution
- Improved Lithuanian province names
- Renamed Coastal Barrage age power to Floating Batteries
- Completely removed the deprecated Center of Trade modifiers from the game
- it is possible to use [Root.GetFlagshipName] to get the country flagship name into localisation.


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# Bugfixes
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- Added nation designer trigger for Plutocratic monarchy reform
- Can no longer adopt Cossack government while in a dictatorship
- Colonial nation will no longer gain the option to change government as if they were released when their overlord is annexed
- Ensured that Prayers to Saints event should always have an event target
- Enthrone Timurid Prince now available with Tribal government
- Fix CTD when assaulting while the assault is already over on slow machines
- Fixed AI posting commands too early during game setup/start
- Fixed Aspiration for Liberty being valid for Revolutionary Empires
- Fixed CTD due to released countries sometimes having states with no owned provinces
- Fixed Unit VIew CTD related to free slots tooltip
- Fixed bug with how crusade_target was set causing Crusading Triggered modifier to malfunction
- Fixed calculation of ship capture chance and related tooltips
- Fixed errors in skill weighting script for Lottery candidates
- Fixed invalid Malay culture in WiH events
- Fixed non-accepted culture tooltip in province view
- Fixed parliament bribes that cost monarch points. Also made them use scaled monarch point cost effect.
- Fixed pretender rebel skill calculation using synced RNG in tooltip
- Fixed reversed better/worse localisation for annexed provinces and lost units campaign statistics
- Fixed typo in Russian Minor mission Advance to the Dniepr
- Fixed typos in Poland patch content
- Fixed workaround with territory conversion where you could skip the -2% penalty.
- Fixed wrong loc key in Anglican event
- Fixed wrong modifier in Chernigov national idea
- Fixed wrong script used to change steppe government in randomeventsstapehordes.25
- Forming Golden Horde now gives Tatar missions
- Jharkhand now has Tribal Monarchy starting reform
- Merchant Republics now get faction events again without Dharma enabled.
- Missionary Maintenance tooltip now actually works.
- Mongol Empire government now valid for I'll Graze My Horse acheivement
- Must now be Orthodox to select Tsardom or Principality governments in nation designer
- Now possible to Reunite the League of Mayapan without El Dorado dlc
- PU mission rewards now require being a Christian monarchy and for the target to be a monarchy
- Privateer efficiency bonuses becomes trade power abroad when privateering is not available
- Privateering is now available if own either El Dorado, Wealth of Nation, Mare Nostrum or Golden Century
- Province values in state view should update correctly
- Prussian confederation event now notifies the player that a new decision is available
- Rajput scion event should no longer trigger for a capital province
- Ratanpur now has Gondi culture, and will not lose Gond Kingdom reform on startup.
- Revolutionary Republics will now become Revolutionary Empires on election instead of Presidential Dictatorships
- Several country-specific disasters no longer available outside norma/historical setup
- Subsidies no longer increase max amount of loans.
- Synthetic Dusk event can now fire only once
- Tribal nations that are junior partners can no longer become a republic or theocracy via reforms
- Updated Austrian mission for Poland map changes
- Updated Partition Poland mission to include new Sandomierz area
- You can now switch from Sortition to Frequent Elections since you lose the no-election from that action
- armies unable to embark in ship due to lack of space will no longer be deleted
- colonial nations should not be allowed to sign separate peace in their overlords wars
- culture_religion_events.11 will now display length of modifier in tooltip
- fix bug that was stopping naval missions on monthly tick
- Fixed CTD in outliner when supported heir invalid
- MODIFIER_ALL_POWER_COST is now applied in culture conversion
- MODIFIER_ALL_POWER_COST is now applied in vassal integration cost

Also, as we mentioned last week, Golden Century will be accompanied by a swift hotfix which will unlock the following DLC features:

  • Treasure Fleet mechanics will be unlocked in Golden Century (Previously tied to only El Dorado)
  • All Privateering related mechanics will be unlocked in Golden Century
  • Transfer Occupation will be available to all players (previously tied to Art of War)
  • Increase Development feature will be available to all players (Previously tied to Common Sense)
More can be read about these in this thread here

That's our modest lot for today. We will be releasing Golden Century along with the Spain Update tomorrow, along with a release stream. As for next week, we'll be having a special dev diary, indeed the final one for the year, where we will be doing a bit of a post-mortem on the year, talking about suggestions&feedback, as well as laying out future plans for EUIV, so that you can get involved yourselves in them to a greater degree.

Enjoy the release tomorrow, and see you for 2018's final diary next week.
 
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I dislike the idea changes. They just make some ideas more mediocre instead of rather making the less played ideas more significant - this is not good way to go.

I hope they will change this in the upcoming patch... until then I guess I will stay 1.27
 
Dear Devs, now that you stealth added the "Council of the Indies" government reform and buffed the Isabella event please think about this

Had you listened a little more on the map changes for Iberia, gave Portugal a new idea set and reworked the Castilian civil war, the Iberian wedding and maybe the Burgundian Inheritance and actually given us a Dev diary about those event changes your posts regarding GC wouldn't be 80% "respectfully disagree" but 80% "agree"

I'm serious, the outrage about GC is about lack of content. But judging from this it is at least as much about your horrible communication. You tell us you make a Spain DLC and then don't tell us about the government reform for Iberians but tell us at length about the pirate government reforms. Are we really at fault for being mad that the Spain DLC looks like a Pirate DLC?
 
LoK-y-Yo said:
Do you realize that Castile did not send its heretics to America? That was a British and French thing. The council even tried to improve the natives rights to no avail, but alas, it was dificult to create Iberian content in the Spain update :rolleyes:
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Do you realize that the feature is not only about religious minorities, but about cultural ones? And that there was notable Basque, Galician and Catalan colonization in America? Also, e.g. the colonization of Sao Tome was actually by Sephardic Jews, and the colony of Nuevo Leon was started by Sephardi.

Representing this as expelling minorities may be a little heavy-handed and only a very appromate depiction of history, but it is not true that Spain and Portugal did not have colonies that were not Castilian and catholic or Portuguese and catholic, respectively. Especially for Spain it is quite nice and flavourful to be able to not only have Castilian colonies.
 
Let's give credit where it's due. The AI changes sound fantastic and I look forward to playing with them.

Don't quite understand the trade company thing but any change that nerfs TCs is good for balance.
 
Twoflower said:
Do you realize that the feature is not only about religious minorities, but about cultural ones? And that there was notable Basque, Galician and Catalan colonization in America? Also, e.g. the colonization of Sao Tome was actually by Sephardic Jews, and the colony of Nuevo Leon was started by Sephardi.

Representing this as expelling minorities may be a little heavy-handed and only a very appromate depiction of history, but it is not true that Spain and Portugal did not have colonies that were not Castilian and catholic or Portuguese and catholic, respectively. Especially for Spain it is quite nice and flavourful to be able to not only have Castilian colonies.
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I understand that, but in my opinion it is represented by the current colonization, where virtually a whole country contributes to the colonization effort and settlers.

Problem with expelling minorities as Spain implies that Basques were shipped off to the New World, making Navarra a Castilian land. Or that Maghreb could be naturally resettled to Mexico. Or, for example, you could see Muslims in Texas. I am not saying that this feature is bad, but it hardly could be called an Iberian feature. For Iberia, 5% settler chance would probably be still more fitting than it.
 
Twoflower said:
Do you realize that the feature is not only about religious minorities, but about cultural ones? And that there was notable Basque, Galician and Catalan colonization in America? Also, e.g. the colonization of Sao Tome was actually by Sephardic Jews, and the colony of Nuevo Leon was started by Sephardi.

Representing this as expelling minorities may be a little heavy-handed and only a very appromate depiction of history, but it is not true that Spain and Portugal did not have colonies that were not Castilian and catholic or Portuguese and catholic, respectively. Especially for Spain it is quite nice and flavourful to be able to not only have Castilian colonies.
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Nobody expel Basque, Galician or Catalan to America... It was normal colonization, like other cultures in Spain.
 
Twoflower said:
Do you realize that the feature is not only about religious minorities, but about cultural ones? And that there was notable Basque, Galician and Catalan colonization in America? Also, e.g. the colonization of Sao Tome was actually by Sephardic Jews, and the colony of Nuevo Leon was started by Sephardi.

Representing this as expelling minorities may be a little heavy-handed and only a very appromate depiction of history, but it is not true that Spain and Portugal did not have colonies that were not Castilian and catholic or Portuguese and catholic, respectively. Especially for Spain it is quite nice and flavourful to be able to not only have Castilian colonies.
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Uhm... No minorities were expelled to the colonies. In fact, most of them were forbidden from doing so.
Even people from the crown of Aragon could not freely go there until Philip III. There were quite a few people from Aragon involved in the conquests, as the implementation was relatively lax, but it was still mostly people from the crown of Castile.
And while quite a few jews did go to the Americas, they were not at all expelled there; they mostly fled hoping to escape prosecution. And they had to have converted to Christianity before being allowed to leave, at least officially, so from the point of view of the state they were christians.

Basques or galicians were not seen as any different from castilians, and were not treated any differently. If anything, they were socially seen as better due to being "old christians" free of the suspicion of being converted muslims or jews.

EDIT: Also, I don't think that the idea that all Spanish-speaking Americans are Mexicans is going to go down very well. Wouldn't it be easier to just make a dozen copies of the culture and link it to the colonial region? Or just change its name to "Hispanic" as a term to cover everything.
 
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In all seriousness, I've played EU4 multiplayers with several Argentinians that would jockingly rename the Rio de la Plata "Argentina is not Mexico" when colonizing it.

I guess it was not a joke. This update is very sad.


Just change it to Spanish American or something; the Mexica were the Aztecs!
 
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# Economy
- Institutions now provide a trade company efficiency value to replace tech disparity bonus. It takes the latest embraced institution in the native province and adds with the latest embraced institution with the trade company owners value. This efficiency is then multiplied with the trade goods produced bonus.
- Feudalism, Renaissance, Colonialism, Printing Press have Trade Company efficiency of 0
- Global Trade have a Trade Compnay efficiency of 0.1
- Manufactories have a Trade Company efficiency of 0.2
- Enlightenment have a Trade Company efficiency of 0.3
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Sorry but what's a 'Tech disparity bonus'?? I haven't had my coffee yet, but this whole sections makes no sense to me :/

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# War & Peace
- Overlord can force non-voluntary subjects in the same war to transfer occupied provinces
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Does 'non-voluntary subject' means a disloyal subject?

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# Events
- Added Tortoise Herding
- Cultural Ties Weakened event radically altered. Now spreads Mexican, American, and Brazilian cultures depending on context.
- Iberian Wedding will no longer fire for Castile if it owns less than 25 provinces, or for Aragon if it owns less than 16 provinces
- WiH Isabella event now has less stringent triggers
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What's Tortoise herding?
And what is 'WiH Isabella event'??

Good god I need some coffee. brb.
 
The one balance change everyone was asking for and agreed on for ages so Spain would stop failing, that is, making Aragon and Castille historical friends with Aragon, you dont do it.

Great job, as always.

Im not even gonna comment on the rest because we all know it by now, and saying it earned me a ban.
 
I look forward to seeing what idiotic stealth changes not mentioned in the patch notes will get unearthed after release. Yes, I'm still angry over the 7CoG changes.
 
So. First, I like the change to finally unlock the paywall of common sense. For me the Steam shop still is not overviewable for new players. There should be a merge of some of the older dlcs into one, and giving owners of 4-5 of them all 5 if they own 4 of 5 etc. Any solution is better then this old mess. Besides that, nice.

Now to the DLC - enough is said about the lack of features and depth. It just doesn't feel like a spain or an Iberian update. If so - you could have least give some more free missions for all iberian nations and let that be extended by the immersion pack.
Also I really hoped to see at least a ton of fresh country events for spain and the others.
In the patch notes I see just 2-3 for the early 15 years. Great. And also the usuall "new system" new 10 event random stuff.
I would really like if it would make a difference to play spain or one of the other countries. I'm just missing the flavor. How costly/hard can it be to let one guy write at least 15 new events for each of this nations that will appear over time? It would add so much more with an easy step. Besides the missed chance to change the catholic game/give special units or a special govermenttype for the iberian nations or anything other....I hate to say it, but this game dies because of the lack of flavor love. and I loved this game. I want to pay you for good content, so playing is everytime different and every nation feels a bit different, you do it sometimes, but you missed it this time hard.

Edit: And I know @neondt that you at least read the posts and you anwser some of them. So that is a good step! I just keep having the feeling, that paradox steped away a lot of people from EU IV, so less people are doing less work in the same amount of time and for the same price. Please don't lose your customers at one of your best working games (also for new players! and give us back some more focused and real flavor for the next patches... Iam missing an effort like the free woman in history dlc with so many events and persons... etc
 
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Twoflower said:
Especially for Spain it is quite nice and flavourful to be able to not only have Castilian colonies.
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No it isn't at all. There wasn't such thing as Spanish colonies.

The colonies were solely Castillian, under the Castile crown and only Castillian crown, Castilian administration, Castillian Viceroys, the gold and silver went to Castile and only Castile, and the conquest was for Castile.

And the treaty of Alcaçovas and Tordesillas were between Castile and Portugal and not Aragon or any other kingdom.

After the expulsion of Moriscos Aragon lost 1/3 of population and didn't even had people to work their lands or colonize their own territories.

The fact that Castilian Basque people were inmigrants (not expelled) doesn't mean those colonies were going to be Basque.

That's like saying Argentina was an Italian colony or New York an Irish colony.
 
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