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I believe I said explorations, not settlements. South America is of less importance, at least until the Europeans have naval range to Brazil.What about South America? You don't have a colony there.
But it's still impressive.
I'm actually not conquering as fast as I could... Making landfall in Europe is perhaps not the best strategy. Ming can build a large enough fleet to make European colonization difficult, if not impossible. With low colonial maintenance, you can 'starve' settlements you capture at zero growth until you're in colonial range (through captured Pagan provinces), and then convert culture and religion with an extra colonist. As long as you have naval superiority nearby, the AI will stay in port during war. All it takes is a European offering you a safe harbor.Very impressive! Almost discouragingly so, compared to my own efforts with Ming...
If the Shamanists won't revolt for you, how did you convert that northernmost Tibetan province? Was that group herded from a shamanist province you did want to convert (IIRC Hovd and Tannu Tuva are redundant)?
What is your plan for your court? Those are not the most useful adviser types, so I assume you're aiming for stability bumps. Are there enough Eastern religion group targets left that it's worth doing this? Seems like you've been picking up boundary disputes on most of the survivors...
Have you had any successful Colonial Company events? I've had surprising luck with that already in my game. Arguably bad luck since supporting multiple colonies shortly after the Hindu conversion is rather bad for cash flow. Any reason you haven't colonized Luzon yet? Higher tax and population than Siberia, with generally better goods.
Also, I notice you still haven't taken Ceylon. The sooner you take it, the sooner you can get your tropical, possibly-culture-converting new capital! Unless you'd prefer Brunei, of course. Since I don't expect the Ryukyu trick to work and Brunei is a nice high tax province, that seems like a fine choice, actually.
Shamanists do revolt occasionally, but not on the scale the animists are. Since I occasionally pause the 'wave' to convert provinces back to hinduism, I can then only provoke revolts behind the 'front', and nearly all the shamanist provinces are at the front. Hovd is actually not redundant, as long as I let the Oirats have three provinces. I need them to by-pass Oirat territory and reach Manchuria and Korea, but no luck so far.
That court was the best I could assemble. Prestige is always useful, and I wanted to boost income as best I could. Sure, I'd love a Master of Mint, but there have been absolutely none of them available. When I need theologians, they are usually absent from the pool. I'm in no real need of stability boosts, I just like to keep a high-standard court.
Any successful colonial company event will be screenshot'ed. I think I've had two or three, but I don't recall if the AAR has reached that far yet. As for Luzon, the reason is simply a colonist shortage. Europeans won't make it to Indonesia for a long time, especially since I'm killing off any 'stepping stone' pagan or low-tech country they could attack.
I don't really expect Ryukyu to work either, and I've no intention of relocating the capitol. I'm not fond of moving the capitol unless it's a requirement (i.e. Prussia and the 'Brandenburgian' decisions).