Well, 3.03 is out, and I'd like some of your opinions on the changes. I think it's worse than the previous FTM patch, since it seems like your neutrality drops extremely slowly if you're not a major. I had 40-50 spies raising the threat of my neighbours as Nationalist China, and my neutrality dropped by about 5-7 points a year. This means you're hard pressed to declare war on anyone as a minor, since China has some advantages when it comes to declaring war that other minors don't have.
1) More Leadership. With 10+ leadership you can commit a rather large amount of it to raising spies to get your neutrality lowered via the new system. It still takes a while to get 4-5 countries maxed out with spies, but once you're there you only need 2-3 leadership points to keep your spies replenished.
2) Cores on territories of neighbouring countries, thus lowering the neutrality threshold.
I can imagine that as a different minor without claims on other countries, and with only 4 leadership, it'll take ages and ages and ages to declare a war now, without using noneutrality or editing the defines.lua. A shame, because I'd really like to play the game it was meant to be played.