Paradox, please remove 50% autonomy colonial cap from African/Native American states

[Saczva]

I'm playing as Mali and I've had colonies on my doorstep for over 200 years that are still at 50% autonomy, yet there's an event that spontaneously produces a nation out of multiple uncolonised provinces which you can conquer and lower to 0% autonomy, this is just illogical to have colonies literally next door to your capital and surrounded by dozens of other home provinces only for it to be a permanent backwater. I'm just going to mod my game to remove it for now.

 

[victimizer]

It makes perfect sense actually. New communities would have usually greater degree of independence and autonomy so that they would attract settlers from less "free" places, where people toiled under a repressive polity.

 

[Freudia]

It makes perfect sense actually. New communities would have usually greater degree of independence and autonomy so that they would attract settlers from less "free" places, where people toiled under a repressive polity.

Communities right next to the capital would have less autonomy than communities established halfway around the world, assuming both were still under the same rulership.

 

[Hystarea]

It seems like the real issue is what does autonomy actually represent? Does it represent the power that the central government holds over a province or is it the amount of people living in said province. Maybe it is even a mix of the two. If local autonomy is how much power the central government holds over a province natives and Africans should not have this negative. If it is any of the other two they should as everyone else. I believe this issue will be resolved once Paradox has agreed what local autonomy is actually.