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This is probably a dumb question but to take advantage of House Divided or now HOD do we have to start at a specific year or can we just start at the earliest point the game allows us?
 
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This is probably a dumb question but to take advantage of House Divided or now HOD do we have to start at a specific year or can we just start at the earliest point the game allows us?

You can use the early start just fine - all that changes is the date and advances throughout the world in the meantime (tech, landgrabbing et cetera)

And in the case of the American Civil War of course the war hasn't begun in the early start - but it will happen eventually. You can't avoid it.
 
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Nice, although it's pretty much all stuff we've heard before if you've read the Dev diaries. This tidbit is something I hadn't seen before though:
There is now a population-based penalty on diplomatically influencing nations, this results in it being impossible to add extremely large nations, like China or India, to your sphere of influence.
I wonder if that's proportional to your population, or just a simple scale, and how much that'll affect the nations smaller than China or India.