Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: yutowap33

Any tips on starting new colonies?

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ORIGINAL: KarisFraMauro

Speaking of city improvement cards, what governs the militia headquarters one? I've never even seen it before my current game, and it doesn't look like it's connected with any particular profile. Maybe I missed it though.

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ORIGINAL: KarisFraMauro

Digging a little deeper you are indeed correct, it's volunteerism at fist 40. But it isn't listed in the profile as far as I can see, you have to look in the encyclopedia.

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ORIGINAL: Mina

- Start by building a railhead and Truck station on the tile you want to put your new city at. They're 1 turn to build and essential, because getting materials and food to your new city's incredibly important.
- Try to have cards like Zoo/Commercial Project available before starting a new zone. You're going to need to have your worker morale at 50 or better in order to get **** built in a reasonable timeframe, if worker morale is bad then you'll struggle to convert pop into workers, so you won't have enough people to build your QoL ****, so morale won't start improving, and repeat ad nauseum.
- Investor Backing is also good to play on new cities because it provides a random but static amount of money. Private investment scales depending on existing population

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ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar
Oh, also, you probably want to Allow Emergency Food, wouldn't want your newly arrived population to starve !

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ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar
- Start with your Zone unincorporated for higher population happiness growth, and so that its initially zero civilization score doesn't impact yours. This will also give more resources for the private sector to build up.
- Increase worker pay 1 millicredit at a time until it hits 70+ happiness and rising : you won't have many workers to start with anyway, and their salaries will help the private sector. Lower it 1 millicredit at a time when it hits 80+.

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ORIGINAL: Uemon

Overall the power of cities lies in city hex only buildings that you can unlock with economic council, which allow you to produce resources inside your cities (and thus not rely on external metal/rares/food etc).

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ORIGINAL: yutowap33
What buildings you consider to have the most benefit? Also a while back someone mentioned that extra zones made their empire flourish economically, any idea what he was referring? (I don't see anything in the trade report that might lend to that)

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When it's a good idea not to allow emergency food? I was scared by it once, since then I always do, not sure what the disadvantages are.

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ORIGINAL: yutowap33

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ORIGINAL: Mina

- Start by building a railhead and Truck station on the tile you want to put your new city at. They're 1 turn to build and essential, because getting materials and food to your new city's incredibly important.
- Try to have cards like Zoo/Commercial Project available before starting a new zone. You're going to need to have your worker morale at 50 or better in order to get **** built in a reasonable timeframe, if worker morale is bad then you'll struggle to convert pop into workers, so you won't have enough people to build your QoL ****, so morale won't start improving, and repeat ad nauseum.
- Investor Backing is also good to play on new cities because it provides a random but static amount of money. Private investment scales depending on existing population

That pretty much what I did. I used 10k colonist, only went for Rail station and no Truck station (hopping that civil authority will take care of the latter in this remote community), and used my spare zone cards to boost the colonies (I built 2 to see how they compare).

I am little confused about private investment expansion, is there some build order and timer between constructions? because both colonies started by building a farming community, and now despite having pile of cash in private funds has no next project

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ORIGINAL: newageofpower

They need enough unemployed civilians (population, not workers) as future employees to keep building stuff.

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ORIGINAL: yutowap33
I am little confused about private investment expansion, is there some build order and timer between constructions? because both colonies started by building a farming community, and now despite having pile of cash in private funds has no next project

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ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar
- Start with your Zone unincorporated for higher population happiness growth, and so that its initially zero civilization score doesn't impact yours. This will also give more resources for the private sector to build up.

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5.3.11.4. reGular and unInCorPorated zones
You’ll start the game with only Regular Zones, but conquest will give you an
Unincorporated Zone.
An Unincorporated Zone has a certain level of independence and it is not
fully integrated with your other Zones.
Unincorporated Zones have the following different rules:
§ You still receive Service Tax from the Zone.
§ You do not receive Private Asset Tax from Private Assets. Private
Assets thus do not provide you with any Items.
§ The Zone Stats do not impact your Regime Stats, like your Popularity
or Culture Level.
§ No Sales or Income Tax will be imposed.
§ Regime casualties have no impact on the Population Happiness and
Loyalty.
§ No Recruitment of Colonists or Recruits is possible, but you can still
recruit Workers.
§ No Cultural Adjustment will take place.
§ Unincorporated Zones have double the Happiness growth up to 75
points, compared to Regular Zones.
You can order an Unincorporated Zone to become a Regular Zone at any
moment you like. Just call your Governor to discuss Zone Orders.
In general, it is a good idea to leave a conquered Zone Unincorporated for a
while, either to get Population Happiness restored as quickly as possible or
to ensure you keep benefiting from the option to use their possibly unique
Militia forces.

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ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar

Ah, never mind, population happiness *is* affected by QOL, but only *Zone* QOL (and compared to *Zone* Civ score, and those will eventually even out), but Population doesn't (directly ?) care about Regime's average Civilization Score and/or Civilization Level ?

The manual says :

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5.3.11.4. reGular and unInCorPorated zones
You’ll start the game with only Regular Zones, but conquest will give you an
Unincorporated Zone.
An Unincorporated Zone has a certain level of independence and it is not
fully integrated with your other Zones.
Unincorporated Zones have the following different rules:
§ You still receive Service Tax from the Zone.
§ You do not receive Private Asset Tax from Private Assets. Private
Assets thus do not provide you with any Items.
§ The Zone Stats do not impact your Regime Stats, like your Popularity
or Culture Level.
§ No Sales or Income Tax will be imposed.
§ Regime casualties have no impact on the Population Happiness and
Loyalty.
§ No Recruitment of Colonists or Recruits is possible, but you can still
recruit Workers.
§ No Cultural Adjustment will take place.
§ Unincorporated Zones have double the Happiness growth up to 75
points, compared to Regular Zones.
You can order an Unincorporated Zone to become a Regular Zone at any
moment you like. Just call your Governor to discuss Zone Orders.
In general, it is a good idea to leave a conquered Zone Unincorporated for a
while, either to get Population Happiness restored as quickly as possible or
to ensure you keep benefiting from the option to use their possibly unique
Militia forces.

P.S.: Maybe the manual is outdated/wrong on this last § ?
P.P.S.: Also, is that double happiness growth only for Population, or maybe also for Workers too ?