Europa Universalis V confirmed

[Josephus]

I been playing as Naples...following the tutorial missions and doing my own stuff...like attacking Sicily.

Some interesting stuff, lots to keep track of. After I conquered a bunch of provinces in Sicily, I couldn't tell if they were cored or not. I can't seem to find the right mapmode, where I can tell like in EUIV which provinces I have claims on, are my cores, etc.

There's tons of stuff here, trying to find what I want can be hard for now.

[Tamas]

I been playing as Naples...following the tutorial missions and doing my own stuff...like attacking Sicily.

Some interesting stuff, lots to keep track of. After I conquered a bunch of provinces in Sicily, I couldn't tell if they were cored or not. I can't seem to find the right mapmode, where I can tell like in EUIV which provinces I have claims on, are my cores, etc.

There's tons of stuff here, trying to find what I want can be hard for now.

I think the official EU5 YouTube channel's population tutorial (Syt linked it earlier) has a short section where they cover that map mode.

[DGuller]

Played the Ottomans for a couple of months before crashing to desktop.  Not the most auspicious of starts. 

[The Brain]

Played the Ottomans for a couple of months before crashing to desktop.  Not the most auspicious of starts. 

Remember to eat and sleep.

[Tamas]

Sorry, not going to mess with gameplay mods in the next few weeks while they keep patching this.

Yeah it was a mistake.

[Tamas]

Weekly patches with first coming tomorrow while a separate team works on the longer term stuff. Nice.

[Josephus]

Lost about 1.3 million people in Naples due to the plague. 

So the latest thing I'm confused with is Institutions and Ages.

How do I advance ages? The Second age (Renaissance, I think) has started but I haven't reached it yet. Do I have to embrace the three Insitutions of the first age first? I have two, but the third one, Meritocracy, is nowhere near me and none of my provinces are close to embracing it.

Can I aid it's spread? How?