Protectorates and Fleet Basing Rights

[panther29]

I am playing as Portugal and I have Kilwa as a protectorate. I know the protectorates allow you trace trade range from then, but what about colonial range? Kilwa doesn't seem to give me the colonial range as with normal fleet basing rights. I tried asking specifically for fleet basing rights, but the tooltips says something about it being already my subject nation and it already is giving me them automatically. Does anybody know what to do about this?
I don't understand one other thing. Can national ambition (coring range) be traced from a country with fleet basing rights. It doesn't seem work for me.
BTW I'm not playing the open beta.
Thanks

 

[pgroves]

I am playing as Portugal and I have Kilwa as a protectorate. I know the protectorates allow you trace trade range from then, but what about colonial range? Kilwa doesn't seem to give me the colonial range as with normal fleet basing rights. I tried asking specifically for fleet basing rights, but the tooltips says something about it being already my subject nation and it already is giving me them automatically. Does anybody know what to do about this?
I don't understand one other thing. Can national ambition (coring range) be traced from a country with fleet basing rights. It doesn't seem work for me.
BTW I'm not playing the open beta.
Thanks

I don't think so, and in future patches even fleet basing rights won't give you colonial range - I understand why they're going to make this change, as the current model can be seriously abused, but think it would to better to allow FBR to extend colonial range if you can trace FBR from your own territory to the place where your trying to extended colonial range from e.g. If England can trace colonial range to Iceland, and has FBR with Norway, then extend the colonial range from there, but, not for example, from Kongo, if Kongo itself is not within colonial range. I think the same should be true of protectorates. This way you'd still need a chain back to your homeland.