Once you are done exploring West Africa, get your explorer to help with protecting trade in Sevilla. This is save you time and diplo points later, as you don’t have to wait for an explorer to start colonizing when you get exploration ideas. 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.
Set 4 light ships to protect trade in sevilla. Mothball all forts and delete the fort in evora. Set Tunis as your third rival in December, this is to make sure all your rivals don’t band together. 
So take the level 2 admin and level 3 diplo guy.
Take scripted discount advisors at the start. 
Lets start with our opening moves for Portugal. Now that we have reviewed all trade and colonization changes in the new patch and DLC.
Use your colonizer to upgrade development in your provinces, although I don’t see much use coming from it honestly. First policies are free, so you can get that perk for no cost. Which can be combined with Native trading policy giving +50% native assimilation (ass) with no native uprising. Exploration-Expansion policy gives settler increase and -50% native uprising. New policies synergize well with ideas groups related to colonization. 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. Significant impact on how colonizers should play early game. And you don’t need to control all of Arabia or Zanzibar trade area. This means that all that spice trade from Indonesia and the riches of India can flow directly to Cape. Biggest change was connecting the Coromandel node to Cape. Reworked some trade flows around India and Africa this patch.
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