The imagineers fully understood the assignment when told 'make me a dinosaur robot'

Also to anyone telling me that wanting visible information is 'railroading', get your head out of your ass. Reddit truly is a place of people with no knowledge loudly proclaiming their own biases as truth.

The game itself is fine, if unbalanced in regards to events era wise, with catholic colonizers in the HRE getting most situations and protestants outside the HRE getting fuck all. So if you want a sandbox with an early modern era skin, this will work great. Otherwise...wait for a few months.

This is where the 1337 start really screws the developers over. Because the 14th century is vital to setting up the pieces that would dominate the early modern era. But Johan's seeming hatred for railroading makes it impossible to get even close to an approximation of history.

Or take getting the Hohenzollern's onto the Brandenburg throne, a rather important thing for Brandenburg/Prussia, requires fucking yourself over until 20 invisible points have been reached while Bohemia is emperor. Because you are meant to find that...where exactly?

Wondering why certain moments in French history are not happening? Good question, no clue as the game tells you jack shit. Maybe you are playing too badly, maybe too well, maybe the game gives a few years worth of them to a 70 year old advisor that will die soon that needs to survive now.