The Phillipines as a Colonial Nation?

[Grand Historian]

While throughout this period, European possessions in India, Indonesia, Indochina and China were used as primarily trading posts and mercantile adventures, the Philippines, much like Australia, were governed and acted like a normal colony in the Americas. Even when Spain lost the Philippines in the Spanish-American War, America continued to govern it like it was very much a regular colony. It's for those reasons that I think the Philippines should become a colonial zone.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I don't care much one way or the other, but Asian/African CNs present some mechanical issues that makes their marginal utility questionable.

 

[Grand Historian]

I don't care much one way or the other, but Asian/African CNs present some mechanical issues that makes their marginal utility questionable.

South Africa or India, perhaps, but the Philippines are both an island(s) and are usually devoid of any nations (except the Sulu, but they appear by event), so I don't think it would hamper mechanics to much. I could, of course, be wrong.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

You have issues with colonial-region specific mechanics, who this CN is willing to attack vs not, and might need a safeguard against giving the thing claims in Borneo.

All that for what, an extra colonist that gets handed off via trade company mechanic regardless? As fun as it might be to bankroll such a CN into splattering nearby Asians, I'm not sure it's worth the hassle .

 

[Grand Historian]

You have issues with colonial-region specific mechanics, who this CN is willing to attack vs not, and might need a safeguard against giving the thing claims in Borneo.

All that for what, an extra colonist that gets handed off via trade company mechanic regardless? As fun as it might be to bankroll such a CN into splattering nearby Asians, I'm not sure it's worth the hassle .

Heh, fair enough.

 

[Cthetheslayer]

solid proof tho.

 

[Cthetheslayer]

 

[tobias.mb]

The problem with this is, that CNs are somewhat bad at pulling trade through them. (Since they always try to get a share of the pie).
Unless we get a subject interaction for CNs to get 100% of their trade like protectorates, I would be very unwilling to colonize the phillipines, if they end up stealing some of my China / Japan Trade.
The same would apply to south Africa, even though in both those cases CNs rather than TCs would make sense looking at history