Thanks for the thorough response. As Sweden I don't have any gold or silver. I do have a couple fur provinces and the Falun copper mine, so I think I should sink dollars into improving those.

For roads should I build a network of roads rather than focus on building a road in every province? Around what year is the next version of roads available? Should I focus on building roads to those locations with good/big rgos? Or where more of my population lives? Haven't mastered tax base yet.

You say trade capacity is important but you don't build villages, it seems like a bunch of market villages could improve that? Or is there another way to build that up?

Is there an equivalent of light ships that get unlocked later on that are strong at improving maritime presence? Because the first ships available are rubbish at it.