Vassalage
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The reason for my question happened in my last game, where sometimes during the 19th century suddenly the Americans appeared as vassals to the Dutch. After some reading up it looked to me like the Dutch must have made one of their islands a colony which was their vassal then (probably to reduce their costs; I play usually on maps with islands without large continents, which causes inflation to skyrocket at some point).
After discovering that I wondered if I can do it myself, as my inflation cost was already 411 gold per turn. I had founded Creative Constructions Corporation and with 8 resources under my control it gave me 4 hammers per city - on an island map this is something worth paying for, but anything to reduce it would be welcome.
After discovering that I wondered if I can do it myself, as my inflation cost was already 411 gold per turn. I had founded Creative Constructions Corporation and with 8 resources under my control it gave me 4 hammers per city - on an island map this is something worth paying for, but anything to reduce it would be welcome.
You can only liberate as a colony cities of yours that are on a separate continent from the one your capital is on. From what I can see, there has to be a minimum of two of your cities on that continent. So you can't liberate one-city island nations, unless you gift them to another colony you've set up.
If you meet those requirements, go to your Domestic Advisor and you'll see a new icon in the bottom right hand corner. Clicking this will allow you to choose which group of 2+ cities you want to liberate as a colony.
Once you've done that, you can then gift them other cities you also want to liberate. Be sure that in your initial trading with this colony, that you ask them to switch civics and religion to match yours. They might need to be given something such as your world map, in order to convince them, but generally they are quite agreeable about it.
After that, if you continue to treat them nicely, they will remain strongly loyal to you and can be very helpful in terms of resources, votes for you, sharing military struggles with you...etc
When you set up a colony, it's like your civ has had a baby. Congrats, you're a Daddy.
If you meet those requirements, go to your Domestic Advisor and you'll see a new icon in the bottom right hand corner. Clicking this will allow you to choose which group of 2+ cities you want to liberate as a colony.
Once you've done that, you can then gift them other cities you also want to liberate. Be sure that in your initial trading with this colony, that you ask them to switch civics and religion to match yours. They might need to be given something such as your world map, in order to convince them, but generally they are quite agreeable about it.
After that, if you continue to treat them nicely, they will remain strongly loyal to you and can be very helpful in terms of resources, votes for you, sharing military struggles with you...etc
When you set up a colony, it's like your civ has had a baby. Congrats, you're a Daddy.
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