Something like this has been suggested by several people, might as well go here.
In a province that is not on your home continent, when coring, you can choose to declare the province 'peripheral'. If it's distant overseas, you have no choice - it must be peripheral. Peripheral provinces are much cheaper to core and are eligible to be given to trade companies, but incur a LA floor of 75%. (This would be instead of the current distant overseas LA floor.) If you diploannex land outside your home continent, you get a discount to the annexation cost/time, but the land automatically counts as peripheral.
Subsequently, assuming the province is not distant overseas, you can upgrade it to a regular province by paying the difference in coring costs. This will also kick out the trade company if you put one there. If it becomes disconnected from your capital, it stays as a regular province.
The effect of this change would be that players are no longer encouraged to create a 'continental curtain' vassal to artificially keep land overseas. If you want to treat it as overseas even though you happen to have a land connection, you have the freedom to do so, and you can gradually integrate it into your homeland as you find convenient. Also, it removes a method of getting zero-LA provinces very cheaply, which I doubt is intended behaviour by the devs.
In a province that is not on your home continent, when coring, you can choose to declare the province 'peripheral'. If it's distant overseas, you have no choice - it must be peripheral. Peripheral provinces are much cheaper to core and are eligible to be given to trade companies, but incur a LA floor of 75%. (This would be instead of the current distant overseas LA floor.) If you diploannex land outside your home continent, you get a discount to the annexation cost/time, but the land automatically counts as peripheral.
Subsequently, assuming the province is not distant overseas, you can upgrade it to a regular province by paying the difference in coring costs. This will also kick out the trade company if you put one there. If it becomes disconnected from your capital, it stays as a regular province.
The effect of this change would be that players are no longer encouraged to create a 'continental curtain' vassal to artificially keep land overseas. If you want to treat it as overseas even though you happen to have a land connection, you have the freedom to do so, and you can gradually integrate it into your homeland as you find convenient. Also, it removes a method of getting zero-LA provinces very cheaply, which I doubt is intended behaviour by the devs.
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