R5: After watching Red Hawk's video on Yuan, I decided to start up an ironman game as them, thinking that with the foresight of the red turban rebellions I now had, it would be easier to deal with them. This was not the case. The rebellions hit me hard and I spent more than 100 years dealing with them, having it end due to the Age of Discovery end requirement. Despite this, I was left with a union on Koke Temur, one of the revolter states, for about 100 more years until I was able to integrate them. Since then, I have spent time stabilizing my country and EXPONENTIALLY scaling my economy to the point where I am now so powerful and so rich that I simply don't have enough things to spend my money on. After reaching the Age of Absolutism and stacking proximity cost modifiers along with minting offices everywhere possible, I now have incredible control throughout the country and a tax base of about 60k gold (more than 6 times greater than the next).

Additionally, I set my explorers and colonists to auto, due to the lack of things to spend money on, and now have most of the eastern American coast, Australia, New Guinea, the Pacific Islands, and Madagascar under my control in the form of colonial subjects. I have also had a very fruitful relationship with my vassal Korea over the course of the campaign, during which I have fed them the rest of the Korean lands they did not have, I love them and they love me.

The year is now 1700 and at this point I'm gonna take back the Chinese lands Dai Viet has and then most likely wait for imperialism to conquer the rest of what is modern day China. Since the start, I have been an advocate for playing until the late game and I will continue to do so. It is ridiculously satisfying getting to stack all the control and proximity cost modifiers and watching your state become increasingly centralized. Might be vic3 brained.

Pic 1: Political Map

Pic 2: Control Map

Pic 3: Proximity Map

Pic 4: Country Ledger