© Valve Corporation. Assimilation can be a lot of ducats. The suppression policy is great to get an advantage over other colonisers since your colonies grow faster. What is the best native policy as of Rule Britannia? Examples for this are Indonesia, the Philippines and Africa. If you can afford it, repression, if you can't, co-existence. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. +20 growth wins easily unless you're trying to colonize Africa early. +20 growth is nice for fast colonies, but you have to protect them. Español - Latinoamérica (Spanish - Latin America). Native Trading Policy gives you more goods produced in your colonies, thus making them better economically. The quicker colonization can't be overlooked. Since the change I don't think I've used anything other than Native Coexistance with European colonizers because it makes colonizing Africa so much easier and it's just easier to not micromanage that 3-6 stack running around your colonies and inevitable getting wiped when you go to war and forget about them. Because higher colony level reduce colonist success chance instead of increase, +25 growth is the king at this point. And having more goods produced is a double modifier if you can control the trade somehow. If you can afford it, repression, if you can't, co-existence. Most new world colonies cost barely any military power to kill and your tech quickly becomes sufficient that 1 regiment garrisons are sufficient to cover most colonies. Live and let live is best for when you need the regiments or get into messy colonial wars. Later on you just need something like 4 infantry for each colony. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. You have to realize that early, +20 settlers a year is huge. this is way faster and as such your colonization will improve tremendously. Policies are a set of bonuses unlocked by completing idea groups.Each possible pair of ideas from different types (i.e. All rights reserved. -100 native uprising is nice if you don't want to bother with protecting colonies. Is it still the one that gives +20 global settler growth? Therefore Westernization. The main benefit of colonialism is to improve the income generation and military logistics of the colonizing country. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Europa Universalis IV by Paradox Development Studio. Native Trading Policy gives you more goods produced in your colonies, thus making them better economically. also, it cost like 1-4 units per colony, so at max you use 20 of your total army for defending the colonies. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Admod, the Equivocal. Not having to deal with native uprisings at all outweighs every other advantage from the other policies heavily, if I'm not mistaken? However, are the other policies better, Ben at the start? Even if you take the tollerance bonuses you will still face uprisings. administrative and diplomatic, administrative and military, or diplomatic and military) unlocks a policy. Unless you're Portugal who will have to settle with coexistence due to not having a military to kill the native or they'll go into debt, or maaaaaaybe France who can pair up assimilation with their innate idea to have 0% uprising AND extra goods produced. The author of this thread has indicated that this post answers the original topic. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Native trading is great if you are playing in Indonesia, since most of the uncolonized provinces are high-dev and of your culture group, leading to tons of ducats thanks to the goods produced modifiers. I think that "native coexistence" is actually the worst. Don't forget that you can attack natives as well. It would be interesting for somebody to do the math and compare the production bonus versus actually having more provinces.