@Kaiserreich actually no you should not go to a future start date because you will not be able to get the Independence War event chain. Doing so would mean you would have to declare Independence the regular way.

@Kaiserreich You can go either way, although with all eu4 games it's best to form the Thirteen Colonies yourself.

I guess I'll also mention I structured the events and such so that you don't neccesarily have to start as England, but anyone who makes a colony in East America. Although doing it as England would get you the best experience.

To be able to get this new content do you have to start as England and form the thirteen colonies yourself or can you start in a start date with the thirteen colonies already established and go from there?

@Rodired The Congress of the Confederation should only be temporary. The Constitutional Convention should trigger within a few years of winning the war and thus changing to the Federal Presidential Republic

can you get rid of the +20 minimum authonomy from the tier 1 government reform since that kinda makes it impossible to get the below 1 for the native mission

@Shrike10011

The event chain will begin once you reach 50% liberty desire, where after you have to keep increasing it until you reach 90% where the war will begin.

As for the gaining churches thing, that is just a colonial nation thing it's always like that because the meantime is based on province not tag, so its far more likely to happen with more provinces owned.

How long does it take for the event chain for independence to fire? I've been playing as the 13 Colonies for some time now but nothing's happening. Actually, that's not quite true; I got an incredibly frequent amount of popups for one specific event, "Their eyes are not here" (colonial_nation.191), which gives you the choice between gaining a church, some unrest reduction and papal influence, or unrest increase and some adm in one province. Perhaps there is a conflict going on that fires this event over and over, rather than the independence event chain...