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The increased number of provinces in the new expanded maps may remedy this, but more testing is needed. Generally, if a country has more provinces, it is less vulnerable to extinction. 
VH because it's the hardest setting (hte AI receives the most "help" - outright cheating on her part, yeah, but she needs it).
Coward, for two reasons :
- first, on harder settings, the AI fights itself much more, wearing itself down, allowing the human player an easier time when picking his targets
- second, on harder settings, the AI fights itself much more, bringing relations down, triggering force-annexations, and following very high BB, then relations & high BB cause more wars, which cause more annexations, etc, making a much less "historical" game and destroying any kind of good diplomacy
Coward, for two reasons :
- first, on harder settings, the AI fights itself much more, wearing itself down, allowing the human player an easier time when picking his targets
- second, on harder settings, the AI fights itself much more, bringing relations down, triggering force-annexations, and following very high BB, then relations & high BB cause more wars, which cause more annexations, etc, making a much less "historical" game and destroying any kind of good diplomacy
For the most challenging game, very hard is the highest difficulty setting, allowing badboy wars so that badboy is more meaningful. In some sense badboy wars can make world conquest easier because stability need not be recovered for making DoWs. The timing of rounds of badboy wars and management of neighbors remain challenges though.
The aggressivness setting is debatable about which setting produces the most challenging game. At furious, the AI engages in campaigns of mutual annihilation; it is easy for players to take advantage of this. It is also easy to get into war, sometimes defensive war which results in lower badboy for taking provinces. AI nations research much more slowly since so much money goes into constant wars.
At coward, the AI is unlikely to DoW a player when below the BB threshold. This gives a player free reign on DoWing and moving troops wherever without concern for defense. However, the AI is generally weak and can be beaten eventually so long as the player does not have a very small nation. So being DoWed can often be a good thing. Coward may also produce more historic outcomes, without so many constant wars. Minors may survive longer making it more difficult to gain many Germanic and Italian provinces without higher badboy. Trade competition may also be greater, since there are more countries remaining.
I prefer the aggressive setting myself. I want a chance of being DoWed so that I have some surprise opposition to my efforts. However, at furious, it is just too easy to take advantage.
The aggressivness setting is debatable about which setting produces the most challenging game. At furious, the AI engages in campaigns of mutual annihilation; it is easy for players to take advantage of this. It is also easy to get into war, sometimes defensive war which results in lower badboy for taking provinces. AI nations research much more slowly since so much money goes into constant wars.
At coward, the AI is unlikely to DoW a player when below the BB threshold. This gives a player free reign on DoWing and moving troops wherever without concern for defense. However, the AI is generally weak and can be beaten eventually so long as the player does not have a very small nation. So being DoWed can often be a good thing. Coward may also produce more historic outcomes, without so many constant wars. Minors may survive longer making it more difficult to gain many Germanic and Italian provinces without higher badboy. Trade competition may also be greater, since there are more countries remaining.
I prefer the aggressive setting myself. I want a chance of being DoWed so that I have some surprise opposition to my efforts. However, at furious, it is just too easy to take advantage.
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Do players really notice a difference in the numbers of DoWs against them on different difficulty levels? I've always found it to be much the same with few DoWs at any level.
The coward setting often makes it a lot more fun particularly in Europe. On furious usually all Germany belongs to France, Austria and Poland. On cowrad a goo portion of German minors will remain. For the player expansion there is a lot harder as expansion means annexation when only 1 province nations are there. You don't often get the situation where one minor (Often Hessen) eats up 4 or 5 other minors only to be eaten in turn by other minors and then thet in turn are eaten by France.
The coward setting often makes it a lot more fun particularly in Europe. On furious usually all Germany belongs to France, Austria and Poland. On cowrad a goo portion of German minors will remain. For the player expansion there is a lot harder as expansion means annexation when only 1 province nations are there. You don't often get the situation where one minor (Often Hessen) eats up 4 or 5 other minors only to be eaten in turn by other minors and then thet in turn are eaten by France.