The Ivory Coast node has many colonizable provinces and trade value from many other trade nodes with colonizable provinces flows into this node, including Brazil, Cape of Good Hope, Zanzibar, Amazonas, and many others.
The Caribbean node also connects to many other colonizable nodes, such as Mexico, Rio Grande, and others.Īdditionally, the Sevilla node connects directly to the Ivory Coast node. Therefore, the Caribbean is an excellent place to colonize for Portugal. As well, creating a colonial nation in the New World will provide 50% of that nation's trade power to Portugal, assisting in that process. Sevilla connects directly to the Caribbean node in the New World, meaning that any trade value generated by colonized provinces in the Caribbean node can be pulled, with enough trade power, to the Sevilla node. To understand how to benefit from colonization, the player must look at the trade map mode to understand how to bring trade value back home or to a trade node they can effectively collect at.Įxample 1: Portugal's main trading port is in the Sevilla node.
With this in mind, some nations are much better positioned than others to take advantage of colonizable territory. In general, colonisation is far more profitable if a player can either eventually bring trade value back to their home node, or dominate one of the colonial trade nodes and collect trade income there. Please help with verifying or updating this section.
