The UK doesn't pay any maintenance for Heligoland, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus. The same-continent limitation also creates a few problems for big continents, like Europe or Asia. Or Russia to stretch from Europe to Japan without paying anything. Sea straits (the one units can walk over and can be blocked by ships) count as a continuation, so the Gibraltar strait allows Spain to control all of africa paying absolutely no maintenance. There's a small problem with the game definition of overseas province though. Colonies are costly endeavors and maintaining a colonial empire consisting of nothing but isolated islands was a very cheap endeavor. The objective is to make, at least some colonial provinces, unprofitable. So the UK used to start paying 106£ for its overseas provinces, now that value is 1006£. Overseas maintenance now costs 10 times that value.
The value is easily paid even by taxes in the sahara desert which made it mostly a symbolic value. A draft of the changes of the budget screen, trying to highly overseas maintenance costs.īefore, each overseas province (defined in the game as a province in another continent without a land connection to the capital) at the beginning of the game costed around 0.6£ to the controlling country in supplies.
