If you ask me, France is the most overlooked when it comes to colonization. They deserve more attention than Spain. Whenever I play a historically non-colonizing power and late-comer to the New World in my game, I find Louisiana and Canada uncolonized. It looks funny. English, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese have all filled in their historical colonial areas and there is only a large hole in the middle of North America that should be French.
Maybe France is missing the free colonists AI events that Spain and Russia get in abundance? Even as a player, I found it quite hard to colonize with France because they get few explorers and have their sliders stuck high on innovativeness and mercantilism. They also get the free shipyard quite late, the last among the colonizing powers.
). I think there are two solutions. The first is to use a specific ai-only event which is triggered by owning certain other provinces. The event changes Spain's ai to have ONLY the area with Everglades as its goal for colonization (and gives it 6 colonists and some cash at the same time). Another event would trigger as soon as Everglades is owned to revert to its previous ai file.
