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?

[crazy canuck]

Well, if anyone is doing well in this game, please tell me. 

I did very well reading through all the tabs last night.  Oh, you meant playing the game - nope made the mistake of building too many roads at the start and decided to abandon all hope and try again another time. 

Do roads have building maintenance cost?

I have restarted as Hungary, trying to improve things this time rather than sitting and scratching my head. Things are going noticeably worse than when I didn't touch anything. 

I just put too many resources into building them and so I didn't have enough resources to build other buildings and all the other things that gold is needed for in the early game.

On the next play through, I'm going to concentrate more on building up the economy of the areas that are in decent control and then work out from there.  No idea if that will work better but sounds good on paper.

[Legbiter]

The peasants are revolting!