Distant overseas

[cortomaltese]

So, I had the unfortunate idea to enter a war to conquer Cyrenaica... don't really know why, probably just the spread-the-colour-of-my-nation fetish!
Anyway, soon after peace is signed I find out that my new province profits me a record 0.00 dn as, not only its religion and culture are different, but mainly because the "distant overseas" penalty takes away 90% of its income. Which is a pretty funny rule, considering that I'm Sicily and my capital is just a few days away by boat and that other provinces I own in Greece and the Adriatic Sea are farther away but do not suffer from this penalty. So I have two questions for you:
1) How does the distant overseas apply (is it becasue Cyrenaica is in Africa?) and can i modify somthing to make the rule a bit more reasonable for my case
2) I thought about selling it! HA! But the sell province option appears to be switched off with all countries. How so?

[Falahk]

you could just build big/small ships so you get tariff income from the province

[cortomaltese]

Really? I have 1 big ship but 0 tariff either

[varonel]

So, I had the unfortunate idea to enter a war to conquer Cyrenaica... don't really know why, probably just the spread-the-colour-of-my-nation fetish!
Anyway, soon after peace is signed I find out that my new province profits me a record 0.00 dn as, not only its religion and culture are different, but mainly because the "distant overseas" penalty takes away 90% of its income. Which is a pretty funny rule, considering that I'm Sicily and my capital is just a few days away by boat and that other provinces I own in Greece and the Adriatic Sea are farther away but do not suffer from this penalty. So I have two questions for you:
1) How does the distant overseas apply (is it becasue Cyrenaica is in Africa?) and can i modify somthing to make the rule a bit more reasonable for my case
2) I thought about selling it! HA! But the sell province option appears to be switched off with all countries. How so?

All provinces that are on another continent from your capital and to which you don't have a direct land connection are going to provide tariffs instead of tax/production.
http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/Tariffs

But if you conquer different religion/culture/non-core provinces, they will not provide anything for a while either way.

[xcrissxcrossx]

Also you can't sell provinces when you are at war.

[jdrou]

The distance is so short it only applies in a handful of cases (mainly several small coastal provinces of North Africa are not overseas for Castille/Spain). For everything else it's just "different continent with no land connection". And the distance can't be modded.

[cortomaltese]

Thanks!