Colonial nations add to naval supply limit?

[Halaberiel]

Colonial nations add to naval force limit?

I read the wiki & it stated they do not, but I cannot fathom any other way that nations such as Spain & Portugal (especially Portugal) get such high supply limits. In my current game Portugal has a base tax of 146, a coastal non overseas base tax of 45. 45! A very small overseas base tax that I'm not going to count as almost all his territories are colonies. He gains 25 from merchants, 35 from buildings & he has 4 centers of trade. He has a "global empire" multiplier of 25%. This apparently gives him a supply limit of 227.

Somehow he gets 120 from ports with such low base tax how is this possible I just don't get it? I remember in a previous Portugal game I played I ended up with around 800 naval supply limit, likewut? How does it work!??!

Important parts of the wiki:

"Subjects don't increase the naval force limit of their masters."
"+0.5 per base tax of coastal provinces"
http://www.eu4wiki.com/Force_limit

Oh & he only has like 3 colonies that are trade companies, none of his 8 S.African colonies are trade companies for some bizarre reason.

You can compare this to myself in the game playing as Bengal. All of Indian coast taken, all centers of trade in India taken, 137 supply limit. I mean even Ming only has a supply limit of 73 and most of the Chinese coastline is between 6 and 12 base tax, so there is something else going on here.

EDIT: Just realised it's not base tax but total tax which adds a lot more to his but still doesn't explain the huge amount more he has than me. My total coastal tax is still way higher than his. Does explain why Mings force limit sucks though.
EDIT2: Just loaded up my old Portugal game. Apparently my naval force limit was actually 1426 HAHAHAHA. Whaaaaat. 2nd highest was England with 350. I don't get this at all.

 

[Schmoekoeksklok]

Yes, Colonial nations do add to the mother country's naval force limit. Since that part of the wiki has a nice "The last version it was verified as up to date for was 1.1." above it, you should take anything mentioned there with a grain of salt.

You used to get 0.25 naval force limit for every colonial nation base tax (half as much as they do). That was supposed to be halved in 1.8, but it seems to have accidentally doubled instead, so you get just as much naval force limit from a province whether a CN holds it or you do directly (which is why your Portugal FL is so ridiculous).

 

[Halaberiel]

Yes, Colonial nations do add to the mother country's naval force limit. Since that part of the wiki has a nice "The last version it was verified as up to date for was 1.1." above it, you should take anything mentioned there with a grain of salt.

You used to get 0.25 naval force limit for every colonial nation base tax (half as much as they do). That was supposed to be halved in 1.8, but it seems to have accidentally doubled instead, so you get just as much naval force limit from a province whether a CN holds it or you do directly (which is why your Portugal FL is so ridiculous).

Ah OK so it's bugged and should be 0.125 per colonial port tax?

 

[Autoclave]

I had a similar experience with Denmark. After uniting scandinavia, i colonized the entire atlantic shore of america. with 50% + 25% + 25% naval force limits I was dominating the world trade with 2000 light ships. You get the idea..