Every patch Paradox change their minds about how severe they want AE to be, and every pach this is followed by hundreds of complaints in the forums. Can't you just put it on a slider in the gameplay options already so we can finally leave all this behind us? You can still switch the default AE setting every patch if you want to change the setup for new players. And if you put the external limitation on expansion, AE, on a slider; it only makes sense that you do the same thing to the internal limitation, OE and coring. I know I can't be the only one who thinks coring all your new provinces costs too much AP right now, but it doesn't get discussed as much because Paradox aren't zigzagging their stance on it as much as on AE. By being able to change this you can satisfy both those who wants easy world conquests, those who want to struggle to expand anywhere at all and everyone in between; seems like a pretty good idea to me.
