Poor colonization AI.

[greendevil]

Am I the only one who thinks that the AI is really poor when it comes to colonizing?

Playing as Portugal, I was lucky enough that Castille spent ages wasting their (at the time only) colonist in some province in Africa, increasing the colony by a grand amount of 1 settler per year while other far more favourable places could be chosen.

The same happened later to my Portuguese Brazil colony.

 

[GabbyDieJaeger]

I think one of the problems with AI colonization in 1.8 is all of the added tropical provinces meaning that the AI will make a beeline for the Caribbean, North America, and Patagonia after Portugal's taken the five or six non-tropical provinces in Brazil.