oh. i forgot about the later start date! maybe this colonizing horde thing will work after all
Europa Universalis IV: Developer diary 18 - Part II - Colonisation Clarification
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oh. i forgot about the later start date! maybe this colonizing horde thing will work after all
I'm still hoping that one day we'll get to hear that overseas colonies will become a different type of province after reaching their 1000 colonists. Makes the game real weird for a 1550 province in Mexico to work the same way as Madrid or London.
Hordes were great, and Russia was in good position indeed, unless Hordes managed to settle down, but they were nomands for thousands of years at that point, why would them settle down?
Since it costs you money to have colonies, and colonial envoys speed up their development to full cities requiring no maintenance, the more envoys you have, the more you can colonise for same amount of gold.
Nice to see this extra DD on Colonization. Let me guess the nations getting a bonus colonist are Castille > Spain and England > Great Britain > UK?
England mostly stolen colonies, cept canada, they did not realy colonized much.
This shouldn't be an issue anymore because EU4 starts in 1444 when the Golden Horde is already beaten up pretty badly by Moscow. It's probably likely that Moscow/Russia will be doing all of the horde squashing in EU4 and countries like Austria won't have the opportunity.
Looking at the respective DDs, UK/Spain don't get a colonist, but RUSSIA will. We know Portugal, Castille, England, and France won't have it, so my guess for the other one would be the Netherlands
Actually, one of them is known to be Russia, and it is certainly not Spain or, for that matter, Portugal (which two get other colonization-related bonuses). The other country with an extra colonist is likely to be another one which wouldn't take the Exploration idea group - probably England, though there is a case to be made for the Netherlands (but IIRC, their colonies are born of conquest), or maybe Denmark.
EDIT: England doesn't get one either, I've missed that one. It is Denmark or the Netherlands or something I have entirely forgotten. Oh, or Novgorod, if it doesn't use the generic Russian ideas (on account of beig a quite differently working nation).
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No, you can use them to develope your colonies... although I don't know if you can send two or more in one province.
Thanks for the extra DD! Nice to see some details on the colonisation system. EU IV seems to get more and more promising with every developer diary.
SA was a Dutch cession largely. But New England, Australia, NZ and Canada, yeh.
I think you can chalk up Canada in the "stolen" category too, considering it was French until the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
Balor I really admire your DD, and I hope we get to see more of your DD very soon :happy:
Nah, the brits had a few empty frozen wastes on their own that totally count as colonization.
I don't want to nitpick, but basically all colonies are born out of conquest (it might be from other European nations or otherwise natives). The Dutch colonial empire was based on trade and initially driven by the VOC (United East Indian Company) and the WIC (West Indian Company); OTOH the VOC in it's early days did use force to acquire a monopoly, however that didn't make them unique in comparison with their other European counterparts.
If the Netherlands would get an extra colonist (I'm not convinced), it will have to be a merchant.
I meant conquest as in "from things that are countries in EU3" - unlike, say, most of Africa or the Eastern half of South America
One thing I'd like to be able to do is survey an area for resources before committing to a colony, so I can prioritize profitable regions... although historically there have been exploders who lied about what they found in order to get further royal patronage.