What colonies to make trade colonies

[Ryanneo]

For trade companies, should I be making only center of trades trade colonies or should I just be making pretty much everything trade colonies?

 

[jhtagana]

trade center first or high develop province, then colonize entire node.
especially ivory node, those damn english always steal my asian trade as spain

 

[indika_tates]

Edit: Jhtagana said it. Cot is the priority, then the rest of the node.

 

[Ryanneo]

trade center first or high develop province, then colonize entire node.
especially ivory node, those damn english always steal my asian trade as spain

Should I turn them all into trade companies or just the provinces that are going to provide a bunch of trade?

 

[jhtagana]

sorry for late reply,

turn them all to trade companies.

(i slightly doubt you can get at least 50% to dominate the trade node (to get a merchant) if you didnt turn them all to trade companies).

i can confirm this in the philippines trade node, i colonize everything in the node, but i turn manila to a state (because you know, its my home land). and i didnt get the merchant bonus because of 50% limit thingy.