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[Toxicshadow]

There is no 'goal' in the game. Sometimes I play to take over as much land as I can. Sometimes To create certain things. But most of the time I, and I believe many others, play just to play. To just ride the waves of history.

There is no such thing as endgame. The game ends at 1821. Do whatever you want until then. As for decisions you will find that most of them you can not do until you meet the prerequisite. All decisions have upsides and downsides and what you pick depends on what you want to do. This hold especially true for the religious decisions.

By endgame I meant when does the game end.

May I ask what your playstyle is then? Like what you aim to achieve?

Depends. Once i started as a one province german state and diplo annexed most of current time germany and a bit of austria, got declared war on and took a chunk of france.
Other times i might go the colonization route.
Only time that i went all warlike was to establish control over all of china as ming, established dominance in my region so that i could send troops with boats and take worthwhile provinces along the coast towards Africa with the intention on getting a province next to a latin country so that i could get a better tech group

For both the quotes, that's a pretty interesting way of looking at things- to play simply to play. Also, diplomatic annexation, would that be royal marriage and then claim throne?

[Tarran]

By endgame I meant when does the game end.

The game ends at 1821.

[Twiggie]

For both the quotes, that's a pretty interesting way of looking at things- to play simply to play. Also, diplomatic annexation, would that be royal marriage and then claim throne?

when people talk about diploannexation, they generally mean making someone a vassal and then demanding annexation 10 years later.

forced PUs are an AWESOME(ly overpowered) way to expand, though.

[Rex_Nex]

Probably not something you want to deal with on your first few games though

[Hiiri]

Probably not something you want to deal with on your first few games though

This is the best advice I can think of. Don't even try to understand it all at once. Take it piece by piece.

[Criptfeind]

I recommend England. Pump enough troops to take on Scotland, try not to get in a war with Portugal France and Castile at the same time and you should be fine long enough to get a handle on what to do. Not to mention that the colonization thing (which is a fun thing to do with England) does not really start for long enough that you should at least be able to get a handle on running your island before you eyes are turned to the west.