So, I decided to do a play as England with Art of War. Haven't played England in ages, but decided I wanted to steamroll a game to test the new features. Alas, the play through has led me to facing a problem I've never dealt with before. I was doing quite well. Won the initial war against France, achieved my PU. Diplomatically vassalized Brittany and managed to force vassalize three of the Irish nations. The last was Connacht who I held an alliance with for roughly 40-50 years. Any who, I managed to conquer Scotland and was able to form Great Britain in 1589. The moment I formed Great Britain, Connacht broke their alliance with me. Reason being? Distance between borders. I can still ally and have royal marriages with all the European nations, but this tiny Irish nation right next to one of my core provinces and three of my vassals can no longer do diplomacy with me due to distance. Anyone have an idea of why this might be?
Distance Between Borders..
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I have the same problem in my Kongo game. I supported rebels and released their nation. I got an automatic alliance with them but they broke it next month because of 20000 border distance. Looks like that is a problem with forming / releasing countries.
I have a similar issue where as Poland, Moldavia didn't want to have a royal marriage with me due to -1000 distance between borders after forming Commonwealth.
That is the EXACT issue I'm having. Hope this gets fixed or at least explained. It is kind of crippling my progress in Ireland unless I want to take completely unnecessary AE.
This also happens to nations released in peace or by rebels. I can't even vassalize the minors on my border because of a -20000 Distance Between Borders penalty.
After a few years the distance modifier disappeared. Now I have the problem that they have +200 opinion of me put i have -50 for broken alliance and they don't improve their relations with me > no alliance possible ;-(
That's happened in my Russia game to. I have 20000 distance to Livionian Order, we share border and I've moved my capital to St. Petersburg. So the distance isn't much from my capital to the thier capital. 
Just after I formed Russia this happened.
Hope they hotfixes this soon.
Just after I formed Russia this happened.
Hope they hotfixes this soon.
Happens when nations get released or when somebody tag changes. Had several alliances broken because of this. Could not ally / marry / diplo-vassalize released nations. Penalty ranging from -10,000 to -50,000 on "distance between borders". Had to save, exit, restart, reload, and advance the month, sometimes more than once, to clear it up.
Save and reload fixes it (and most bugs).
It happens when releasing nations, or forming nations (great Britain, Prussia etc).
It happens when releasing nations, or forming nations (great Britain, Prussia etc).