Why are the Iberians not colonizing S. America?

[balmung60]

Double check your cn's ideas. I've noticed not all of them are getting exploration. Absolutely ridiculous.

I've never seen a CN take Exploration. I do, however, regularly see them take Expansion.

 

[atwix]

i have seen isolated OPm chinese nations with colonisation national ideas taking..... NO exploration NOR expansion idea groups. Sounds like fun, having bonuses to colonization without the ability to get colonies or expand to the province next to you.

I guess aow had little testing before release...

 

[SignedName]

From what I can tell, at the start the Iberian AI properly prioritizes the Caribbean for its colonies provided that it has sufficient colonial range. The problem seems to be that the AI expects colonial nations to colonize aggressively. This was true in 1.6 and earlier, but so far my colonial nations are fairly passive when it comes to colonization, and none of them have set up colonies despite getting fairly substantial subsidies.

Also, in one game I had, Brazil ended up trying to colonize the Caribbean instead of sticking to the Brazil colonial region. Maybe CNs should get a massive nerf to Colonial Range to keep them from doing things like that? Though it might be because they were a released CN that they acted so wonky.

 

[balmung60]

Also, in one game I had, Brazil ended up trying to colonize the Caribbean instead of sticking to the Brazil colonial region. Maybe CNs should get a massive nerf to Colonial Range to keep them from doing things like that? Though it might be because they were a released CN that they acted so wonky.

They already can't colonize non-adjacent provinces outside of their colonial region.

Once they're independent, all bets are off.

 

[ddudee]

There are too many tropical provinces. On the brazilian coast, only to the west of the province Belem, inclusively, should they be tropical. All other provinces on the coast simply are NOT tropical. Take a look (the brown coast means Humid Coastal and the blue coast means Humid Subtropical):

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