What all affects how many colonists you get?

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I was curious about this because some nations churn them out every month, and others, regardless of how huge, hardly get any. Even with relatively similar domestic policy settings, I find a country like China hardly gets any colonists as compared to nations like Portugal or Spain or England or France. At first I thought it was just population size of your empire, but this clearly cannot be the case for China, or else it would get a ton of colonists.

What all increases the rate at which you get colonists?

 

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It's not population at all.

It's based on DP slider settings (specifically for colonists, go narrowminded, naval and free trade), whether or not you have a shipyard, whether or not you are considered a "frontier" country (land connection from capital to uncolonized area), and a fixed religion bonus.

 

[Kaigon]

Originally posted by Sheridan
It's based on DP slider settings (specifically for colonists, go narrowminded, naval and free trade), whether or not you have a shipyard, whether or not you are considered a "frontier" country (land connection from capital to uncolonized area), and a fixed religion bonus.

Cover pretty much everything regarding colonists...

why doesn't China recieve many colonists? Easy, they're confucianists (sp?) and get no colonist bonus, compared to the christian guys...

 

[Castellon]

http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=20953

Lots of info in the FAQ forum.

 

[Zander]

As with most facts in this game, mouse hovering can be your friend...

Hover your mouse over your colonists, and it will show you how many come from religion, from shipyards, from frontier status, and from domestic policies. "Domestic policies" are lumped together, but you can easily see the breakdown on the domestic policy sliders themselves.