Benefit of making a territory a state?

[ZEvans96]

From what I could tell it would increase the cost of the province the change it but I didn't see any benefit to doing so? Could somebody explain to me what the difference is or what I should know before I change my territories.

Btw, I'm playing as Portugal colonizing Brazil and the Carribean

[Emperor_Peter]

This system replaced the overseas system I believe - making a territory a state allows you to lower the autonomy to 0 and removes penalties to tax, production, manpower...it only really benefits states that have higer development, so while you might want to make territoriy captured in Iberia a state, you might not see much benefit to doing it when colonizing.

Plus, once you hit that 5 city mark, the colonies convert to a colonial nation anyway

[ZEvans96]

Originally posted by Emperor_Peter:

This system replaced the overseas system I believe - making a territory a state allows you to lower the autonomy to 0 and removes penalties to tax, production, manpower...it only really benefits states that have higer development, so while you might want to make territoriy captured in Iberia a state, you might not see much benefit to doing it when colonizing.

Plus, once you hit that 5 city mark, the colonies convert to a colonial nation anyway

Thanks for explaining it

[SAJ1573]

still dont understand

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Territories are handicaped at a minimum of 75% automony and therefore only provide 25% of their max manpower, tax and forcelimit contribution and 62.5% trade power. By making it a state, minimum autonomy reduces to 50% (or 40% if you have a claim), doubling (or more if claimed) the manpower, tax and forcelimit the former territory contributes as well as now 75% (or 80%) of it's possible trade power. Once you core the provences of the new state, they can have no autonomy.

[Mikey]

Basicly the lower your autonomy the more the province provides to your nation overall in manpower and cash.

With a territory you cannot ever get below 75% autonomy
With a state and territorial core you cannot get below 50% autonomy
With a state and full core you can have 0% autonomy

A state with full cores will pay back the maintenance cost of having it a state very easily unless they have very high autonomy