Making client states anywhere.

[Greasy]

So iv been playing as a custom nation and after competing for africa with portugal i was thinking of converting my game to Vicy 2 after i hit 1821. Now i normaly dont like owning land on a diffrent continant so i try to get 4 or more colonies to make a colonial nation since i like to focus on my main land and once and a while go to my colonies an see what there up to after i deal with the issues at the start of there creation. Well in some areas like africa and asia you cant make colonies and since you cant make a client state since there not on the same continant your pretty much stuck with it. What i was wondering is if there is a line of code to change this or if there's a mod that removes this.

[jamie]

your main land must be more than 150 a way from your capital anything far than that will be colonies

[GrandHardy]

I think what he's saying is he wants to creat colonies in lands such as africa, where distance is irrelevant,

[Reverend Belial]

Wait, you can't make client states in Africa and India? ♥♥♥♥ that then, I'm never playing an eastern colonization game...

[Ixal]

Originally posted by Reverend Belial:

Wait, you can't make client states in Africa and India? ♥♥♥♥ that then, I'm never playing an eastern colonization game...

Only if you have a direct land connection to the capital according to the Wiki.

[Reverend Belial]

That is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb. Trade companies (in my opinion) suck ♥♥♥♥, and I don't want to have to pick up a mod that will likely make a bunch of other changes too just to have the AI manage some backwater for me. What's the point if you need a land connection? Then you could just as easily manage it yourself unless you had some massive coast to coast empire or something and needed police states to help with rebels from time to time or whatever.

[Greasy]

Ya in africa its not considered a colonial area so you are stuck owning it if your a european nation. IMO its pretty stupiid but i wish there was a way to remove makinf client nation only to your contanint your capital is on.

[the_panther]

Not sure why you think trade companies are bad. What are you trying to get if you take land in Africa as a European? Two things:

Money and manpower.

Trade companies give you lots of money to buy mercenaries, which is almost as good as having manpower,

[Kagemin]

It's a bit roundabout, but you can sell provinces you have a core on to any subject that has a coring range there.
So you could create a client state with a small holding in Europe and give them all the unwanted provinces.

Alternatively you can release local vassals, or even protectorates if you're only interested in the trade power.

[Greasy]

I found a way in the Lua txt file to increase the range you can give provinces to your client states in europe. Im about to test it but i think i found a way. not 100% sure though.

[Cozzie livs Dingus]

There is a mod to make colonial nations in Africa don't think there is one for Asia though

[jamie]

there is many mods for colonial nations one of them is one with the whole world as colonial nations just look on workshop