Neighbour bonus in colonies

[BarrosRodrigues]

I am doing a LP as Granada, my capital is now in South America and I colonized Havana which is adjacent to a Portuguese colony. My goal was to be able to eventually westernize but first I wanted to take advantage of the neighbor bonus to reduce the cost of tech. After coring Havana I realized that I am not getting that neighbor bonus from Portugal. So my conclusion is that either there is a problem with the game or colonies do not count for the neighbor bonus which (IMO) is weird because this scenario allows westernization. Any thoughts?

 

[UnluckyKat]

I am doing a LP as Granada, my capital is now in South America and I colonized Havana which is adjacent to a Portuguese colony. My goal was to be able to eventually westernize but first I wanted to take advantage of the neighbor bonus to reduce the cost of tech. After coring Havana I realized that I am not getting that neighbor bonus from Portugal. So my conclusion is that either there is a problem with the game or colonies do not count for the neighbor bonus which (IMO) is weird because this scenario allows westernization. Any thoughts?

portugal needs to have a core too on their province

 

[BarrosRodrigues]

portugal needs to have a core too on their province

They have.

 

[Schmoekoeksklok]

I think you need to border them on your continent (or via a continuous landmass) similar to how royal marriage works.

 

[BarrosRodrigues]

I think you need to border them on your continent (or via a continuous landmass) similar to how royal marriage works.

Thanks, I will try that but don´t you think that it is weird that you can westernize but you can´t take advantage of the neighbor bonus?

 

[Schmoekoeksklok]

Thanks, I will try that but don´t you think that it is weird that you can westernize but you can´t take advantage of the neighbor bonus?

Yes, I agree it's a bit silly. I also think it's silly to count a different distance for royal marriages then for vassalizations. It just makes things needlessly complicated and prohibitive, and I don't really see why.