Traders but no Colonists?

[unmerged(2415)]

Certain provinces will let me send traders but not colonists. Generally they seem to be interior provinces (but they are next to provinces I own and control). They won't even let me send colonists after I've successfully placed traders.

Why is this?

 

[unmerged(1302)]

Cause in EU you can only colonize the provinces adjacent to sea, or provinces adjacent to provinces with cities in them. Quite dumb, since it means Russia has to colonize from Far East to prevent everyone else to get to Siberia.

 

[Griffon]

here we go again:

1. to place colonist you have to be:
a)next to a colonial city of at least 700 people
b)next to the cost
c)next to a trading post ONLY in Siberia
d)next to the great lakes

have fun

 

[laurent]

Next to the great lakes? How were we supposed to find out that? Once I understood I needed to have a city next to the place I wanted to send colonists, I never tried to check all the provinces in order to make sure it was the same everywhere on the map.

Sure, all these features are amongst the elements which make EU a great game, but without this board, it would be a major pain to figure out how the game works....

 

[State Machine]

And the Great Lakes rule has created an interesting situation in my current campaign (as England). France has colonies/TP's all around the Great Lakes, but none on the sea, so no ports. The Dutch and I have everything else. I'm waiting for the next great war amongst some combination of us to see how bad France loses in North America.

 

[unmerged(154)]

Helps if you just click on the little "boat" icon when it's lit up, and drag it over anything green. It'll tell you if you can put a colonist there, and what the success rate is (%).

And, as Russia, I colonized/trade posted all of siberia coming from the east, except 1 area that Japan (?!) got.

Just ignore the desert areas north of Persia (too low % sucess), and build a chain of trade posts east, exterminating the locas as necissary with 2k cavalry armies as necissary.

You can always develop the good areas later.