Colonial Administration Trap

[TheCollector]

The game suggested to establish a colonial administration in my colonies and I did it.

Now I got the tech for Rubber Plantations, but my colonies don't get the tech so they can't produce rubber and since they don't have many universities they won't get the tech soon.

I have the option to conquer and annex my own colonies back but this will cause a war and create more infamy ...

So I guess it is better to ignore the colonial administration feature until all resource techs are known ...

[6ap6apblckaAa]

After reading tooltips I decided to not use them right away. But some people say there are benefits.

[TheCollector]

The colonies are simply turned into a puppet like East India Company. They are in your market and they pay some part of their income to you.

[Alex]

Also they instantly incorporate states.

[TasteDasRainbow]

You mostly do it when you've developed the states as you've deduced. Once rubber and oil, as well as any ag not available locally are developed as desired you can release it as subject via that journal entry. new states acquired in that same region can be traded to your puppet later as conquered.

[6ap6apblckaAa]

What is the advantage compared to incorporating and directly controlling them?

[Alex]

Originally posted by 6ap6apblckaAa:

What is the advantage compared to incorporating and directly controlling them?

- Creating the puppet will instantly incorporate all states.
- You'll have less micromanagement to deal with
- The colonies won't drag your literacy level down
- The administration gets various bonuses depending on your decisions
- The colony can create its own corporations

If it weren't for the braindead AI, the inability to transfer techs and the lack of control over the colony, then this would be a very useful system.

[TheCollector]

Originally posted by 6ap6apblckaAa:

What is the advantage compared to incorporating and directly controlling them?

- They colonize the neighbouring countries on their own
- They deal with discriminated colonial pops. (Culture is still your main european heritage, so there is discrimination)
- They pay for instituitions for their pops, although in the case I checked they did a bad job by switching to "No Schools", "No Health System", "No Social Security", etc. (They focus only on Colonial Affairs, Law Enforcement, Home Affairs)
- Less micro-management for the player

Since they likely have less universities than the player, their further technological progress and tech spread will be much slower.