>>2006585
ignore his retarded advice.
Play Poland and take the personal union on Lithuania.
Follow the mission tree and just enjoy the railroading. Poland is quite simple and your two biggest opponents early game are the Ottomans and Muscovy.
Your biggest long term goal for your first game as Poland should be dont lose any of your starting (core) territory and survive until 1821.
>You will know if you are "doing badly" if the AI declares war on you.
AI will never declare war on you if you are playing good enough.
>Dont waste Mana.
>Don't be spooked by pulse events (random popups with decisions)
and dont pick the options on them that sacrifice your "Power points" (administrative, diplomatic, military).
>Dont spend your power points on ahead of time tech,
it's rarely worth the extra cost. Wait until the tech is 0% cost (on time) or -5% cost (ahead of time)
>read everything
>Read the banners under your stat bar by mousing over them
>Use Estate privileges
any that seem good to you, modify these as the game progresses / your priorities change.

You can play for 10000 hours and still learn new things about the game so just enjoy your time dont stress too hard about everything, but cheating makes it so you will never learn to play without cheats if you want to learn.

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