How does colonization work?
To get a colony, you first have to build colonial buildings. You can only place colonial buildings in unclaimed areas, that are one or more of the following: • Next to the ocean. • Next to one of your finished colonial buildings. • Next to one of you provinces. You also need to have access to a coastline, i.e. have provinces next to the ocean. If its inaccessible, when you hover over the “build” button it will say “you do not have access to this province”. Your units aren’t involved in colonization (unless you are doing it by “stealing” other nations’ colonial buildings), so you don’t need convoys available or any army in or navy next to areas you wish to build colonial buildings in. The assorted colonial buildings have a cost, a certain number of £’s and some goods. The tooltip for the “build”-buttons will tell you what you’re lacking (if anything). Note that contrary to what is the case for e.g. factories, you must have saved money to pay for colonial buildings, you can’t go into deb
