just had Cologne offer to sell me Utrecht which i got for them in a war not long ago. i didn't see anything in the patch notes about province selling but i've never seen the AI offer up provinces before so it was quite a shock
AI province selling
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It has been reported before in previous patches - rarely - so it's definitely not completely new. I don't know if the AI is more likely to do it now than before.
1 thing i noticed is it was cut off from the rest of their provinces and they couldn't core it and also no claim so maybe if it can't be cored the AI tries to get rid of it
This is definitely something the computer weighs. It will even sell back territories it can't core to nations it conquered it from.
I just wish it was possible to offer to buy isolated provinces. In my current game, Norway has a single province in the new world, while I have all the surrounding ones. However, as I'm based in the New World, it isn't really feasible for me to declare war for that single province, and because it was a colony, it auto-cored, so Norway would presumably never offer to sell it. Somewhat annoying.
You can always declare war for Norway's isolated province, occupy it, and let war score tick up until you can annex the province in question. If Norway's capital is still in Europe, then the war score for a single colonial province should be miniscule.
This. Albeit you will have to sit out the "Length of War" timer. Alternatively, send a fleet to cause some WE on their side, will accelerate the process.