Quote Originally Posted by nafod View Post
Also I didn't notice that the AI doesn't trade territories anymore until you mentioned it, but my French game has not seen a single offer.
It still does, just with nowhere near the frequency; possibly as a consequence of the different monetary values floating around, it may not reach positive outcomes as often. In particular you can still offer ridiculous sums for territory, as well as demand it for peace.

re: Britain, still by far the easiest; Holland is also pretty damn easy simply because you incur no "territorial expansion" as you don't need (nor want) to expand in Europe at all (and the New Spain "exploit" lets you claim your one European goal early on without France intervening.).

Spain isn't too bad if you take a long view, but if you play it straight and don't spend a few turns sacking the King, etc, it's probably the weakest European power. The Ottomans are probably the only faction I'd rate "hard" in that you have an uphill climb no matter how you do it.