Effective Colonial distance broken/bugged - help?

[ilshur]

Im running eu3 httt v4.1b.


The "Effective Distance" is almost always zero, meaning i can colonize anything and anywhere, although there are a few exceptions for strange places like Madiera and Greenland which always show effective distance as 900+. This occurs at the beginning, i havent bothered playing through till the end of a game with colonial emphasis because there isnt much point as i have zero competition for 100+ years.


Is this a common bug? i searched the forums and couldn't find anything, and i've tried searching the general internet but i dont know where to really look besides the paradox wiki and here.


If someone knows a way that i could do some kind of hotfix/quickfix in the directory, i'd be open to trying that. My next step will be to plain reinstall, but everything else seems to be working normally so i dont think i'll try that just yet. Thanks in advance.

[ilshur]

an update: the effective distance is "0.0" in green, as if it's modified somehow. The Colonial range is what it should be, based on navel tech and other modifiers, but the "effecitve distance: 0.0" is baffling, how can this be the case for everywhere?

[Mightypeon]

Try to delete whats in your mapcache (pick the right one, you may have several ones) folder.
Reboot afterwards.