Any ideas on decreasing amount required to develop provinces? Especially starting as france, as per province is over 80, when france only gets 4/2 points per category a month... thus making certain estate missions impossible to complete. Also tied to this, france starts with 58 units yet cant provide the income to support them, even with the modifier for Hundred Years
War. As it stands, While France has a bigger military than most nations, it also has a few vessals that are rebellious that if the player downsizes, the ultimate outcome is they will reblell and be bac at square one. Between estate missions and needing to increase development level, 2/4 points per a month are a bit lacking for the "player agency". While IF you ignore the estate and try to improve development, you are caught in an endless spiral itself too... Among this, is the Gunpowder requirement for institution for a lower rate of cost for tech, that it seems AI has no such modifier. So while france recieves pultry amounts of points a month, it can not improve itself rather through expansion, and even that is stiffled still by the expansion mechanic.

While I understand there are many aspects to figure out and work on, might I suggest, rethinking the monarch points required for provinces to develop, as to better reflect the time period also... maybe also the costs in general vs development levels... as most nations were not so developed, nor did it take much to get them that way once centralized authorities did so. Also levies were not as expensive as later men at arms, and this is not being reflected in tech nor in actual cost. I though do love fact heavy ships arent in beginning and crayers are included. So far this is my observations from mod to 1376 as france.

I will also make this a discussion to maybe make it easier if others have noticed such items that affect other nations also.