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I gained three provinces from the Iroquois . . . all three were already colonies, and one is above level-7. As their base religion is pagan I sought to send in a colonist to convert them. The Level-7 province WILL NOT allow me to send in a colonist . .. it doesn't even come up GREEN in the colonize window . . . it's greyed out and inaccessible.

So I made sure to plant a colony in a province RIGHT NEXT TO the province in question, but I still can't access it.

So now this colony in queston is on a river, has a colony right across the river and another one adjascent to it on this side of the river, and still no access.

Any suggestions/ guidance?
 
hmmm. I know that this is an existing colony, but when you want to establish a *new* colony, iy has to be either a coastal province or adjacent to a city. If it is adjacent to a colony and there are no coastal access, you cannot establish a colony.

Now this being said, since this colony already exists, I wonder how these rules would work? Would they still follow the original parametres to send colonists....

maybe. At least it explains your situation.

Cheers
 
The population is only like 1700 . . . I know I *should* be able to send in a Colonist to 'convert' them, but (as I said above) in colonize mode this province doesn't even present itself as green . . . I'm not trying and failing I can't even attempt to send a colonist.

I *have* been able to make improvements in the city, add a governor, tax colelctor and so on . . . I just can't send a colonist.
 
it seems strange that the game would require it, but griffon seems right
you might have to make sure that the colony is connected to the ocean/sea through a series of colonies
only thing i could think of (other than you have no settlers)
 
That sounds interesting but it doesn't seem to hold to my observation . . . the province in question is Catawba in North America and I also have Powhatton and Delaware across the river . . . I also had a Trading Post in Apalachee, so I sent a colonist to Apalachee in case it needed an adjacent colony, and Apalachee accepted the colonist and succeeded . . . but Catawba STILL will not let me send a colonist. Weird! Bug? Who knows?

Thanks for all the input . . . any other ideas?
 
Originally posted by JEDNJ
That sounds interesting but it doesn't seem to hold to my observation . . . the province in question is Catawba in North America and I also have Powhatton and Delaware across the river . . . I also had a Trading Post in Apalachee, so I sent a colonist to Apalachee in case it needed an adjacent colony, and Apalachee accepted the colonist and succeeded . . . but Catawba STILL will not let me send a colonist. Weird! Bug? Who knows?

Thanks for all the input . . . any other ideas?
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The basic rule is that you need a City (700+ inhabitants) to send colonists to a province away from the coast. There are however several exceptions to this rule, around the Grand lakes in N America and all the way through Siberia etc.

Thus I can only recomend you to try building such a row of city level colonies from the cost to your province. If it still doesn't work then, it's a bug, but you won't know until then.
 
Yes I'll check that. Could be Powhattan is only a 6 . . . and being that Catawba is more than 7 it of course allowed me to colonize Apalchee . . . I'll get Powhattan up to 7 and see if that helps.

Thanks all.
 
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