Colonies keep building military fabrications

[Anthony Georgiev]

I'm playing as Britain in the cold war scenario and I recolonized India, Pakistan, Burma and a range of other colonies. The larger colonies however keep building military fabrications (Land and Air) which then become part of my country. How do i prevent this from happening?

I have the minister locked from spending and the only military focus points selected are 'arms race' and 'increase reserves'. Smaller colonies such as Ceylon don't have the same problem.

[Chris-BattleGoat]

Do you have a savegame we could look at? Please zip the file and email to [e-mail] with ticket 23192 in the subject line.

[Anthony Georgiev]

I'm afraid i didn't save it after that started happening too much and china built about 200 fabrications after i had released them

[Chris-BattleGoat]

Okay, that ticket will remain open in our system. If it happens again, send over the savegame and we'll take a look.

[Grimlich]

You ... ungrateful god who receive an shrine dedicated to war gods and not happy ...
Scrap the facilities cash in the military goods from it then release the hex it was sitting on as part of the colonies. I would send a gift of one ton of food to make fun on the back of the AI ...

[Anthony Georgiev]

How do I release annexed territory to a colony?

[Grimlich]

Originally posted by Anthony Georgiev:

How do I release annexed territory to a colony?

Click on a hex from the territory you intend to delete, go on terrain layer menu. A flag with a skull/crossbone over it, double-clic on the flag icon. The negotiation panel will open, close it. NOW, without clicking anywhere else... realise you are not in terrain layer menu anymore but in diplo menu. click on the option "extreme measures" then click release land and choose as free or colony.

I just had a problem in the particular case of a military facility that I scrapped AFTER having released the colony. In this case the previous instructions won't work. I had to re-annex the colony and release it again with a significant loss of diplo status among my allies and trading partners. I was pissed after all I end up GIVING them territory I naively thought I would get a slight unperceptible diplo bonus to my rating because of it...

[Anthony Georgiev]

I don't have the option to release as a colony, only as a country. Could this be because i'm using a mac?

[Chris-BattleGoat]

The version should be the same. Is the country still alive somewhere? You can't make a colony out of territory loyal to a region that's still alive somewhere. You can only give it back.

[Anthony Georgiev]

No, I was testing out by trying to create a colony out of Scotland in my UK game. It seems as if i haven't gotten the latest update for some reason. Auto updates are on and i'm on insider edition but doesn't work

[Chris-BattleGoat]

What version does it say on your main menu?

You can only make a colony of an area that has different loyalty than your home nation. In some of the maps, Scotland doesn't have unique loyalty IIRC.

[Anthony Georgiev]

version 9.1.85 and it definitely has other loyalty because i'm to click on the flag and access the diplomacy screen

[Chris-BattleGoat]

You should be on .140. Try uninstalling/reinstalling. Check if you've opted into an old beta perhaps?