Re the scouting requirement in the summer quest line:
I have already scouted all the provinces in HMA, and cannot scout any of the next group -- it is still covered with fog. I hurried along the research to reach the LMA which took me 6 days, thinking it would open those provinces for scouting, but no. And I cannot tell what I need to do to make scouting possible, there is no clue. I have never had to take over all of the provinces in an age in order to scout a new one, just the province on the border of the next age, which I have done.
Because I forged ahead, so to speak, with scouting when I had extra coins, I am now being penalized in the quest line. If I have scouted all the provinces in my 'age', shouldn't that be considered a quest accomplished?
And what happens to someone who is at the end of the map?