Oh well, whatever changes in the units/technology, at least they are moddable.
The AI improvements are most welcome, as always.
I say this yet again: Using diplomatic score for a wide range of purposes, from creating a royal marriage with a new partner to researching new ship rigging to diploannexin now, is grossly unrealistic and disbalancing.
BTW early colonizers should get an advantage, otherwise what's the motive to be the first colonizing power?
You don't say? And it took only a mere 8 months after game release for this feeling to accumulate.
You do surely get an advantage from being an early colonizer. I'm in a Brittany run, I'm a 6 provinces minor and get half my income from trade, because trade is still not really pushed in Wetern nodes, to collecting in America makes me rich even with no light ships there... Then, being early means colonizing highest BT; honestly, colonizing late isn't that appealing when it still costs as much to colonize a 2 BT grain VS a 6 BT tobaco. Now at least we might see some Norway CN and some more French as well instead of just everything Iberian. Plus Kurlandish CN...