

The idea is to explore just west africa soon, as you never know when your explorer might die. Portugal starts with an explorer even though you don’t have the exploration idea yet. And set the other 2 heavy and 1 light ship to explore west africa.

Expensive, but worth the investment if done right.Can build extra buildings in these trade companies to boost goods, production efficiency, trade power, trade steering and other things.Not cheap prices scale depending on the province and country development and opinion modifiers.Can now buy a province from any nation in a trade company region.Can be upgraded to level 2 and level 3 CoT, for more trade power among other bonuses.

