You are just silly. How should Ottomans develop into major powers when they have to share land with Byzantine?
You just forget the thing, that when you start game and play, game is no longer "historical" but all of actions are at your hands, not hands of historical person.
Which is precisely why the start game should be at a point more relevant to the era the game is supposed to cover: not a point that's almost certain to never result in anything even close to history, even if all you do action-wise is perfectly historical.
1399 is just a horrible start date in every possible way. Europa III is about the early modern era. A game about the early modern era where France and the Ottomans are almost always no-show is not proper design, it's a sad joke created to please anglophiles and byzantophiles.
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