ITT: Give very basic tutorials to help people get into games you like
>you collect 3 kinds of mana that let you do stuff
>trade is just collecting money from nodes (the squares), merchants can collect from a square or send money from it to another one
>colonising is just sending a guy to a province, putting soldiers there to stop native uprisings and waiting for it to finish at which point its just another bit of your land
>always put a commander on an army for fights with evenish numbers
>you can get absolutely fucked in a war and always come back from it later
>don't take too much shit too quickly
People get "intimidated" by EU4 when really 80% of the mechanics play themselves, you can get by just fine without touching them.
>Just build legions of corvettes.
>As long as you have one active ally, the AI wont fuck with you unless they dwarf the both of you
>Never join a federation. Ever.
>Play on smaller maps as Stellaris isn't built for longevity.