No one colonizing.....

[Timrocks101]

Hello everyone I've just noticed a bug perhaps or just random luck idk. Literally no one colonizing and all of the European powers have taken explo/expa. I am honestly annoyed because when I play Spain England instantly takes explo/expa. Just something I've noticed. Does the AI take explo/expa more if the player is playing as a major?

 

[Tavald]

Year?
Also, If by some reason the AI decides to put a colonist on developing the land, it will only leave if forced out.

 

[Regaccio]

They're probably all in debt and have decided not to colonize because of their deficit.

 

[Meglok]

I have not seen this. In my current game prior to turning on the beta all the usual suspects were colonizing like mad.

 

[Blust]

In my Holland game the same happened. France started colonizing Louisiana in 1600 but Portugal, Spain and England didn't even tried even though they had exploration ideas

 

[Blk82]

You check on the AI debts fairly easily. Click the declare war button on one of their allies, but don't actually declare. Where is says if they will join or not, it will show the AI's reluctance to join the war based on their debts. This will show their debts in absolute ducats. Also, their reluctance is based on debts relative to monthly income.

According to the wiki, each month of income worth of debt gives -2.5 (according to the wiki) reasons to join a defensive war. For reference, forced bankruptcy for 4% interest would happen at 300 months of income worth of debt, or a calculated value of -750 reasons to join from debt on a defensive war.

Also, in this patch, the AI can't handle mercenaries, keeping them around for years while deleting regular regiments. This can result in AI's being in debt despite never losing wars, or even fighting difficult wars.