To set up windowed mode (everyone should do this IMO):
1) go to your EU3 main directory, find the text file 'Settings.txt' and open it
2) Find the line 'fullscreen=yes' and change it to 'fullscreen=no'
3) in the size bracket above you can customize the resolution to anything; I recomend whatever your desktop's background is. When you load the game you might need to drag the window a tiny bit to make everything visible.
Well worth it IMO since you no longer need to alt-tab completely out of the game.
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Some comments:
lol at Milan having lost it's core on Siena. It would (and defo should by now) be Italy if it had it. Sucks
Austria really needs to get moving. Hansa is way ahead of them in the german race for control. Castille leadinga PU with Bohemia is no good either. And they need to build their own CoT, or join Hansa - I recommend staying Mercantilistic and building a COT in Wein ASAP (Wein to get the most of the CoT manpower bonus). (Note that building an Austrian COT will screw over Venice and make Bent unhappy, so don't listen to him if he's advising against it :P )
Russia is quietly getting fat over in the East. Converted to Empire too, they seem to be doing v nicely. Economy sucks but that's Russia for you :S They still have a long way to go towards Ming, at least.
France as AI took QFTNW and started colonizing north-west Africa. Will be interesting to see what they decide to do. They do have a respectable fleet built up now too. But still a lot of German minors left, they could get pulled into fights over them with Hansa/Austria/Milan. Will probably have to pick one or the other.
Hansa has a lot of pull in the new world imo. They snuck in and took the US-area natives before anyone else (most likely England, who took out the nearby Huron in Canada) could get to them. And the only other new world colonizers, England and Portugal, are in the Hansa's league. They also have Cape Verde as a potential base for growing into Africa, if they want to try and take a slice there.
England is colonizing a lot slower than I am. I guess he actually gives a damn about his economy and wants to maintain a slower, more sustainable pace, whereas Portugal has obviously taken on the 'take everything and deal with it later' approach. He's also much more spread globally, with a base in Africa and Ceylon.
Sweden looks to be in good shape if Flying Banana's friend can get his computer issues sorted out. Vijay is also doing very well in India and will probably be very hard for any colonizers to take on straight up. Better tactic would be to take over someone small and nearby as a base (like England has in Ceylon), move troops in, then go all out.
Reformation is coming up in the early 1500s too - will be interesting to see who goes to which religion. I'm undecided as to whether or not to convert, myself. Catholic is obv the strongest for getting colonies going, but has nothing else going for it really. Putting the brakes on that growth wouldn't hurt me economically speaking, either.