Colonisation Speed

[Nishnibbles]

I've clicked all the speed upgrades I've so far found in the idea trees. When I set a province to be colonised it says it will take about 40 years, but once the unit reaches the tile it says it will take ~150 years. These are tiles that are connected to my capital and are on the same island. There's another player in the same game who colonises tiles in about 30 years no matter where they are, Is this something I'm doing wrong?

[Omnem]

Colonisation times and idea costs increase a bit as the nation progresses.

We are working on a BLITZ version of the game where the game will be a lot of faster. But for now, times increase as the nation grows.

People are increasing their max units cap to colonize as many units as possible in parallel.

[Leoffta]

Originally posted by Omnem:

Colonisation times and idea costs increase a bit as the nation progresses.

Really? I'm asking because a guy with over 300+ provincies can colonizate way faster that me that have 50+ provinces...

[Federal Plant]

Kinda seems like the other half of the question went over his head

[Federal Plant]

Also love that the increase is just enough to keep me from ever adding any ideas? Oh, you got the 300 ideas? Well you colonized that little turd on the map so that's gonna be another 12 hours and 200 ideas.

[Nishnibbles]

I understand the scaling but I don’t think something is right, surely if it says it should take 40 years, it should take 40 years right?
And the other guy has far more territory than me, far more pop and is colonising an island that isn’t even the one he started on, and it’s still faster.
In other news too, my stored food refuses to go past 4.2B, despite gaining about 1.3B a year.
I think it’s a great game but I’m a bit annoyed that I’m losing provices on my own island to another player for seemingly no reason