Favorite European powers to play in Colonization

[Jethro83]

Dutch are still OK, as in their Merchantman at the beginning, and their more favourable exchange rates, but I still find my commodities reduced to 1 gold per unit.

And as for the French, their bonus is made a bit redundant as relations with natives really do deteriorate. Perhaps the best hope is to occupy lands near one of the larger tribes that have many more camps/villages (eg. Iroquois, Sioux, Tupi) and wipe out a sufficient chunk of land, and take their capital after that. Since they'll surrender, and leave you with all that land a good distance from their nearest remaining camps, relations probably won't deteriorate since for some reason they are returned to favourable when you burn their capital.

I stand by my favourites being Spanish and English.

[DarkCloud]

Spanish and the English
English are the best for a quick growing colony complex.
The spanish are fairly well for fighing if used well.

[Apocalypse]

I like the Dutch just for the ship.

[Sikander]

I like the English for the people. A few firebrands, a fountain of youth and I'm off to the races. The AI can never catch up.