why has Kongo province 10 basetax?

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Now I get why I can't convert Kongo and Timbuktu... And Kongo keeps spawning large revolts... Was Kongo that populated? Wow I did not know, in game they just have three provinces and sit there and do notjing

A lot of people don't realize just how large native populations were, and just how differently history could have gone if very few things shook out differently.
 

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Timbuktu in Mali has 14 base tax.

And it should probably be much, much higher.

The center of trade bonus in no way corresponds to the amount of wealth that flowed through the salt/gold/slave route in central and eastern Africa, all centered around Timbuktu as the main logistical point.
 

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Can i get a link to the Byzantium and Ottoman events and decisions that increase the base tax of Constantinople.
 

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Can i get a link to the Byzantium and Ottoman events and decisions that increase the base tax of Constantinople.

You can see them on the Wiki pages for Ottomans and Byzantium. Each adds 5 base tax and does some other stuff. Ottomans just have to own Constantinople, Byzantium has to own pretty much all of Greece and Anatolia.
 

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You can see them on the Wiki pages for Ottomans and Byzantium. Each adds 5 base tax and does some other stuff. Ottomans just have to own Constantinople, Byzantium has to own pretty much all of Greece and Anatolia.

Ottomans also get an additional +1 basetax if they choose to dismantle the patriarchate.
 

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Mauritius has 5 base-tax besides being uninhabited.

This is a problem with all colonization. It just makes no sense at all that a colony instantly goes to full basetax city once it's done. Places like Manhattan going to full power doesn't make any sense, when colonization takes just a couple years (or less).
 

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But this is a game tho....
Exactly. Why not have every colony start at 1 base-tax and have colony-specific buildings that add base-tax/manpower so that you have to actually invest in your colonies to make them better?

The fact that the New World has a lot of base-tax provinces after just colonizing than mainland Europe does not make sense. Production for Trade sure (Furs, Sugar, Cotton, etc.), but Base Tax? No.