I want to ask about this.
Are there still seven playable nations in-game(England, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, France, Venice, and Ottoman/Turkey), or are there now more than that? Would it become a thing for players to defect to the asian/far easterns, or to the americas?
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You can't defect to Asia. There's no structure set up for that (nation king, quarters etc...). Also asia has a totally different setup for goods trade and how investing works. There you need cultural points just to deal with the different towns. Historically, must of Asia was largely closed off to the west back in those time periods.
Same with North America, it's not developed enough yet in game to do that. This is a historical game and the time line is set before immigration was established to asia and NA wasn't even nations yet ( US in 1776 and Canada about a century later) and was still largely unexplored. And if you think that Asians and Africans immigrated back then, they didn't. That was slave trading, not immigration.