what is the latest colonialism hasnt spawned for you?

[gia257]

Because im impressed at this game so far:

The longest I was used to was 1510, Portugal an france do have exploration, and both are colonizing africa atm (diplo tech 9)

 

[Brynjar]

Where is the Portugese capital? It can't spawn on single province Islands such as Madeira or The Azores. France may not have discovered America yet. As for the latest it has spawned fo rme, I'm not sure.

 

[CosmicChronos]

latest for me was around 1525 iirc

 

[gia257]

Where is the Portugese capital? It can't spawn on single province Islands such as Madeira or The Azores. France may not have discovered America yet. As for the latest it has spawned fo rme, I'm not sure.

coimbra

latest for me was around 1525 iirc

just spawned on france, 1523 is my record then, will have to wait for them to embrace and then take languedoc

 

[Viktor Vaughn]

in an extremely bizarre situation, i once had colonialism spawn after printing press. neither england nor france took colonialism as an idea for either of their first two. castile was in constant wars and disasters and just couldn't get the monarch points they needed to advance colonialism, and portugal just went total africa and didn't bother with brazil until 1530 or something? was really bizarre

edit: just went back to find the game, turns out it was after protenstantism and happened at 1543. so not before printing press but still very late

 

[True_Heir_of_Rome]

Around 1520. It's always really late if I'm not playing in Europe, but that's probably confirmation bias.

 

[Bouchart]

Around 1520 or so. If it doesn't spawn in Iberia it probably will in England eventually.

 

[Magnificent Genius]

I had a game as Japan where I spawned Colonialism by ACCIDENT. I couldn't tell you what date it was, but I can tell you that I was not trying to force the spawn, so that should give you an idea of how late it was.

 

[Orkonkel]

I once specifically ran a game of France where my goal was to destory the colonizers (England, Portugal, and Castille) and did not pick Exploration myself, instead getting Influence first, which together with 'Justify My Wars' event (or whatever it's called), Exploration age ability for reduced AE, and Curia controlled just let me plow through Europe with rather low AE gains. I got bored around 1500s, but yeah, colonialism wouldn't have spawned til 1550ish or so (or whenever Ming/Netherlands/Norway found America). Might've gone way longer too.

As for randomly not triggering it without any intention behind the gameplay, well... one of my friends played a game where Portugal and Castille fell into unions under foreign powers (subjects do not pick Exploration) and France/England did not pick it early enough. I think it was like 1530ish or so and it had spawned, not sure how much longer it took before it finally appeared. I wish more institutions behaved like this without a set date to appear, and I also sort of wish the age of exploration lasted til 1520-1530 rather than 1505-1510 too.

 

[TenshiN]

When institutions were just introduced, i had a game where Colonialism spawned in... my Korea, around 1543. In this game, Portugal and Castile got destroyed by Aragon+Morocco, England got overrun by Scotland+France, and France didn't really care to go for Americas. So basically, when Printing Press appeared just 7 years later, in 1550, most of the world had to develop 2 institutions simultaneously.

 

[Runite Drill]

1538. No justifiable reason apparent. Maybe they thought the explorers were crazy?

 

[Sfan]

As Castile I managed to prevent it until 1510 but I stopped playing the save. But I doubt it could have spawned by Europe. I held Portugal, the entire French Atlantic coast, the Netherlands and most of the British Isles. Only Norway left and that was my next target.

 

[Vulkandrache]

1553. With Printing Press being delayed until the year after.
Was a France game, won a PU intervention war against Portugal for Spain so they couldnt take Explo, destroyed Portugal so they didnt take it, England didnt want to take it because they were busy destroying Scotland.