New Player with Colonial Nations Question.

[WaytoomanyUIDs]

Hi, I recently got EU IV and have a question about colonial nations. Why are all improvements like shipyards lost when a colonial nation forms? Is this normal? It's a massive waste of ruler points building any improvements in your empire if it is.

I'm playing plain EU IV patch 1.5 without any DLC (easy, no lucky nations (for now)). Does this happen with Conquest of Paradise as well?

Also, does Conquest of Paradise allow you to get your colonial nations to build units for you? I notice they will patrol trade nodes, but if you need an exploration fleet its a royal pain to build a new one in Europe when you could just build one in Peru.

 

[jonman122]

This happens even if you release a country that you've build buildings in as a vassal or sell provinces to an AI as far as I know. For some reason all buildings you make are destroyed or most are if you don't own the province anymore.

 

[WaytoomanyUIDs]

Hmm, is that a design decision or a bug? It seems a bit odd and I'm pretty sure doesn't happen if you make a nation you've just conquered a vassal (conquered Morocco (with a lot of help from Spain) and made them a one province vassal).

 

[AurochsAway]

This was known to occur when colonial nations were introduced in 1.4, but was supposed to be fixed in 1.5.

 

[WaytoomanyUIDs]

Hmm, I'm on Steam so I'm pretty sure it's fully patched. It says EU4 1.5.0.0 (ea3d) in the bottom left of the title screen.