Which version of EU4 are you on? I've been playing it with some friends for a while (on a converted save from CK2), but because we have limited time that we're all free together we've been getting through it very slowly. As such, we're still on v1.33, although I have modded in some things from 1.34. Having fun, but it has been interesting seeing the newer versions. It looks like there's an awful lot of power creep and the proliferation of mission trees seems to make it less of a sandbox, but I haven't actually played the up-to-date version of the game so I'm very much just looking in from the outside