no income provinces (vanilla campaigns)

[jakistooshort]

Hi - new to the game (as of 2 weeks to the game and been enjoying it), came across a bug(?) during 2 separate campaigns on vanilla 1.5.1 (different optx patches)

France and GB have very poor GDP, massive negative growth, and their provinces have literally 0 income [not all more increasing amount, started with a colony or 2 then expanded to whole empire]. They don't ever explode but just wither and it saps the fun of having big battles. Also,  the provinces are able to be taken for 0$ in peace deals, but they never recover their income.

I didn't think to put in a bug report before i wiped the save file and install a mod (RIP) but wanted to put this here in case it's been seen before. If i can reproduce it I'll comment below.

 

(images are from 1926 Italy campaign on Hard) first occurred on a normal Japan game in 1930. both campaigns were 1890 start.

cheers