Expanding on wasteland?

[пояс Гуччи@45hz]

There is a lot of wasteland and uncolonized terrain around me, how can I expand on them?

[daireb]

Uncolonized terrain can be expanded onto with a colonist. They can be expensive if you are a small nation, and can be acquired through Ideas, which you get by leveling up your admin tech, or national Ideas, which depend on which country you picked.
Wasteland cannot be colonized or traversed, but if you own the majority of the provinces around them, they will show up as owned by you, although are still not traversable.

[пояс Гуччи@45hz]

Originally posted by daireb:

Uncolonized terrain can be expanded onto with a colonist. They can be expensive if you are a small nation, and can be acquired through Ideas, which you get by leveling up your admin tech, or national Ideas, which depend on which country you picked.
Wasteland cannot be colonized or traversed, but if you own the majority of the provinces around them, they will show up as owned by you, although are still not traversable.

Thanks for clearing that up! Will I be able to use the colonist again or will he be gone?

[Pride Bat]

he comes back after the colony finishes or you manually remove him

[пояс Гуччи@45hz]

Originally posted by Mr. Bat:

he comes back after the colony finishes or you manually remove him

Alright thank you!

[Gonio]

As mentioned you need certain ideas, and/or certain countries have it as an national idea like Muscovy/Russia or Spain.

Kinda depends on your plans for the run and what country you are. It is Expansion in the Admin Tech or Exploration in the Diplo tech. You can get the first ideagroup @ lvl 5. Exploration also gives access to explorers and conquistadors to explore the world. This gives some nice events and can help build up prestige fast. Good luck :)

Edit: you can send your colonist(s) to as many provinces as you like but the monthly buildingcost will increase exponential with multiple provinces building.

[пояс Гуччи@45hz]

Originally posted by Gonio:

As mentioned you need certain ideas, and/or certain countries have it as an national idea like Muscovy/Russia or Spain.

Kinda depends on your plans for the run and what country you are. It is Expansion in the Admin Tech or Exploration in the Diplo tech. You can get the first ideagroup @ lvl 5. Exploration also gives access to explorers and conquistadors to explore the world. This gives some nice events and can help build up prestige fast. Good luck :)

Edit: you can send your colonist(s) to as many provinces as you like but the monthly buildingcost will increase exponential with multiple provinces building.

Ok, thanks for the tips, still don't know what I'm doing. (:

[Red Dragon]

First you need to reach administration level 5 in order to unlock your first idea group. Then you can pick the "exploration" idea group (middle column).

* The first idea in the exploration idea group gives you a colonitst, whom you can use to colonize provinces that do not belong to anyone yet. (Place some troops on the province you want to colonize, otherwise the natives might spaz out and destroy your unfinished colony).

* The second idea in the exploration idea group gives you access to conquistadors, who work just like generals and whom you can use to enter unexplored terrain in order to lift the "fog of war" from it.

[пояс Гуччи@45hz]

Originally posted by Red Dragon:

First you need to reach administration level 5 in order to unlock your first idea group. Then you can pick the "exploration" idea group (middle column).

* The first idea in the exploration idea group gives you a colonitst, whom you can use to colonize provinces that do not belong to anyone yet. (Place some troops on the province you want to colonize, otherwise the natives might spaz out and destroy your unfinished colony).

* The second idea in the exploration idea group gives you access to conquistadors, who work just like generals and whom you can use to enter unexplored terrain in order to lift the "fog of war" from it.

Ok, will I be able to cross the terra incognita with the first 2 ideas or do I need anything else?

[Gonio]

If you take exploration, yes. They are similar to normal generals and admirals, and you can also use them the same way. They do however have a lower ammount of pips compared to their normal counterparts when recruited. You can read more on: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Colonization

Normally you manual do this by just sending the unit somewhere. Remember however that your ships need to return after a while because they will lose durability over time. With the El Dorado DLC you can also make this automatic. I personally prefer the old tedious way though, but thats me.

When exploring the time to reach a unexplored province or sea takes way longer (double or so) then normal (use the light ships). Depending on how high the maneuver of your leader is you have a chanche to explore surroundings aswell. In new provinces you might however have to combat the natives. Earlygame you might want to send a few infantry troops then because of the lost manpower or larger size of natives in certain provinces.

You will get there eventually learning the game. Just do some playtrough with relative easy countries at first.

[пояс Гуччи@45hz]

Originally posted by Gonio:

If you take exploration, yes. They are similar to normal generals and admirals, and you can also use them the same way. They do however have a lower ammount of pips compared to their normal counterparts when recruited. You can read more on: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Colonization

Normally you manual do this by just sending the unit somewhere. Remember however that your ships need to return after a while because they will lose durability over time. With the El Dorado DLC you can also make this automatic. I personally prefer the old tedious way though, but thats me.

When exploring the time to reach a unexplored province or sea takes way longer (double or so) then normal (use the light ships). Depending on how high the maneuver of your leader is you have a chanche to explore surroundings aswell. In new provinces you might however have to combat the natives. Earlygame you might want to send a few infantry troops then because of the lost manpower or larger size of natives in certain provinces.

You will get there eventually learning the game. Just do some playtrough with relative easy countries at first.

Thanks again for all the help.

[Jorde]

Got to admit. EUIV has a good community for helping new players.

[Rex29]

Dont think anyone mention this, but the price of colines is non linear. What i mean by this is that if you have one colonist and two coloniese the price of the second colony will have an additional cost modiffiyer on it. This modifier will increase for each colonony you have over your colonists.

[Gonio]

Mentioned it before, but good reminder.

[пояс Гуччи@45hz]

Originally posted by Jordedude1234:

Got to admit. EUIV has a good community for helping new players.

It's definately a lot better than a ton of other communities. :)

[dracos24]

Keep in mind.

Expansion ideas are generally good for Land-based expansion. Like nations in Asia, Africa, or the New World natives. It works well if colonization isn't your main focus, but you still have a few areas you want to nab.

Exploration is for overseas colonizing, or if you're really serious about expanding... but there's not really enough old world provinces to justify this if you don't plan on reaching the new world.