If i plan just to stay in Asia, how can i get printing press origin at all ?

[5uperJ!mmY™]

is attacking africa to try reach europe the only way ?

[5uperJ!mmY™]

im redoing my 3 mountain run for 1.23.
will be staying as hindu, so no point for me to reach euro early.

my last playthru, i can spawn renassiance and colonialism.
but printing press is really headache for me.

Originally posted by AN:

I thought you were kinda out of luck, but thought to check if taking a european vassal could help, and I noticed that apparently you start to generate it in your capital after reaching dip tech 15.

[5uperJ!mmY™]

btw diplo tech 15 tech year is 1596.
by than i have already wasted lots of monarch points already

Originally posted by AN:

I thought you were kinda out of luck, but thought to check if taking a european vassal could help, and I noticed that apparently you start to generate it in your capital after reaching dip tech 15.

[Erik_Rex]

Printing Press:
"This arrives after 1550, in a province in the capital area of its owner with the province being either Protestant, Reformed, or in one of the German regions.

Regardless of where Printing Press first appears, an event will immediately spread it to Venice, Rome, Paris and Augsburg."
https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Institutions

there is no way to get it to spawn outside of Germany it seems, though it is easy to force spread it to one of your provinces to embrade it fast if you have the "Common Sence" DLC just boost development.

[Erik_Rex]

Originally posted by Jimmy:

im redoing my 3 mountain run for 1.23.
will be staying as hindu, so no point for me to reach euro early.

my last playthru, i can spawn renassiance and colonialism.
but printing press is really headache for me.

Originally posted by AN:

I thought you were kinda out of luck, but thought to check if taking a european vassal could help, and I noticed that apparently you start to generate it in your capital after reaching dip tech 15.

how do you manage to spawn renassiance in a none italian province? that should not be possible

[5uperJ!mmY™]

okay so after it spawn in it origin,
I can spend around 1.5k - 2k monarch points developing a province to embrace printing press ?

Originally posted by Rexxar:

Printing Press:
"This arrives after 1550, in a province in the capital area of its owner with the province being either Protestant, Reformed, or in one of the German regions.

Regardless of where Printing Press first appears, an event will immediately spread it to Venice, Rome, Paris and Augsburg."
https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Institutions

there is no way to get it to spawn outside of Germany it seems, though it is easy to force spread it to one of your provinces to embrade it fast if you have the "Common Sence" DLC just boost development.

[5uperJ!mmY™]

I develop Manila to 38 development, yeah it not spawn, should be force spread.

Originally posted by Rexxar:

Originally posted by Jimmy:

im redoing my 3 mountain run for 1.23.
will be staying as hindu, so no point for me to reach euro early.

my last playthru, i can spawn renassiance and colonialism.
but printing press is really headache for me.

how do you manage to spawn renassiance in a none italian province? that should not be possible

[Erik_Rex]

Originally posted by shogunsmurf:

Rexxar..... the tooltips for institutions are outright lies..... I've had MP games with my friend, where he spawned Enlightenment in Asia with 4/3/2 ruler..... When the tooltip says it should spawn in Europe and needs at least 5 skill points in any catagory.......

So far the only tooltip that seems to be a 100% correct is Reinasance.

I don't think i tlies at all, the key words in that text is "EITHER" and "OR" it does not need you to have all of them, just one of them. it means you can have none of the other needs for it to spawn, but you leader is a really good and enlightent leader making it spawn.

though having said thata, there is no garantee the text is right, but as far as I have seen it is.

Originally posted by Jimmy:

I develop Manila to 38 development, yeah it not spawn, should be force spread.

Originally posted by Rexxar:

how do you manage to spawn renassiance in a none italian province? that should not be possible

you can look at the institution spread in each province, and developing a province will force a institutin that has spawned to be embraced in a province, even if it does not have any natural spread.
this will mean it will start spreading to all of your other provinces too, letting you embrace it fully rather quick.
this is a much better way to do it than to wait around a 100 years while it is making its way around the world.

[Shadowdemon112/Gealden]

Printing press can spawn outside germany, I had it spawn in my brazilian colony as england. Main thing is that the religion is either protestant or reformed. If neither of those 2 are there, it will pick a country in germany (which is unlikely) Do mind protestant always is present in germany so the chance is bigger that it spawns there

[Fantastic Fwoosh]

Japan can convert to christianity through events, so somehow encouraging protestants to take root would be useful to establishing it outside europe.