Need some noob help with CNs

[Karabas1543]

Hey guys,

I'm playing a Brunei campaign and for the first time really focusing on North American colonization, so it's legit my first time ever getting serious CNs. And I'm realizing I'm a complete newbie at this and would like some help:

1) As of AoW, what affects liberty desire aside from raising/lowering tariffs?

2) Once liberty desire is past 50%, what determines if the colonial power declares independency? Relationship with overlord? Relative strength?

3) If I have separate CNs that border each other and one of them declares independence, will the other one join on my side or theirs?

4) How does one make money off of CNs if they want to collect trade at home in America while I want to steer it home to Asia?

Thanks!

 

[Golradaer]

1. Your war exhaustion affects liberty desire through the "situation at home" modifier. I'm not sure if legitimacy/stability are also factored it.

2. Yes, relative strength. Unless something changed in the past couple of patches, it's also possible for countries to Support Independence on your colonies. I haven't had to fight a colony during an independence war yet, but it'd probably be a good idea to station a large army in their territory if their liberty desire gets especially high (like 90%). Also, I imagine improving relations will help with a powerful colony, just as it does with large vassals -- they're less likely to rebel if they're at 200 relations.

3. Your side, unless they were allied prior to the war (I haven't seen this happen myself, but normal vassals/PU partners are able to ally and therefore help each other if either declares independence, so I assume CNs can do the same).

4. CNs automatically transfer part of their trade power to you, so hopefully by this point in the game you've dominated your home node enough to not require a light ship fleet protecting trade -- you can send your fleet over to the colony node to help steer trade instead. Of course, you also get money through tariffs.

 

[ChildeR]

Regarding 4., let them have their half. You'll get a part of it as tariffs anyway. Look at where your CNs steer when planning your trade path and take into account downstream transfers. Just steering is often worse than collecting abroad if your capital is in an inconvenient location. The penalty for collecting abroad doesn't matter much if lost trade mostly goes to your CNs.

 

[Karabas1543]

Thanks guys. I guess my point wrt 4 was that it seems to make to sense to go 100% either way. Either I steer all the trade home or I let them have all of it and collect it as tariffs. Although it seems that steering it by oneself would make more money