How do you construct a port?

[I_AM_King_Midas]

How do you construct a port? I have built colonies that have become settlements a great distance away but cant expand to the area right beside them since there is a very far port distance. I have attempted to build a harbor but that did not work.

Midas

 

[nalivayko]

How do you construct a port? I have built colonies that have become settlements a great distance away but cant expand to the area right beside them since there is a very far port distance. I have attempted to build a harbor but that did not work.

Midas

I believe it's a Dock building.

 

[I_AM_King_Midas]

I have tried building a dock and that did not help

 

[Basterbane]

Build Fort or Core the new colony?

 

[gibbel]

How do you construct a port? I have built colonies that have become settlements a great distance away but cant expand to the area right beside them since there is a very far port distance. I have attempted to build a harbor but that did not work.

Midas

You need cores for colonial range. As soon as you have expanded a colony into a city (you need a population of 1000) you can turn it into a core. That takes about 30 month for an overseas province.

 

[hito1]

The colony range is sized from a CORE province. You have to turn settlements into core first, I'm not sure if you also need to build a dock.

I had the same doubt as you on my last Portugal game.

 

[Thanik]

"port" in colonial distance it is just coastal province with core of your nation.

 

[I_AM_King_Midas]

I have a core 2 tiles away from another territory that i control but it wont let me core it because it is 2000 distance away from a cored unblockaded province... There is only one tile between this province and another of my cores.

 

[Zarine]

2000 distance = no sea access I think (it was the case in EU3)

So you have to get a land access first.