ah okay that makes sense
Speaking of which, I have several CNs now, Alaska, California, Mexico, La Plata, Australia and trying to gobble up enough for a Brazil. So far all my CNs have colonized on their own once they got to 5 provinces, including Australia. But in Australia I ran into Portugal who had taken south Australia. Portugal now controls one of the New Zealand islands as well. The other NZ island is still unsettled however along with the provinces on the West side of Australia...but my CN doesn't seem to be interested in settling either area. Why might that be? Do they only auto settle connected provinces?