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Looks very good.

I also really liked the size (number of provs) of the map as it was, so I dont know how this will feel for me; also, the number of sea provs seems to be the same (good), but it will mean making sea/land interaction more rare / harder, and I dont know what that will mean either. It will also slow down the map a lot for most nations without forest/mountain survival (and hence favor Caelum, or Machaka, etc. a bit more).

Also, I would sort of make a plea for making the entire middle east region (ALTHOUGH this is tough for balance reasons) more of the wasteland that it should be, but perhaps with (greatly) increased chances of magical sites to be found, and mostly as no-start? (I love your map, it just always seemed odd to me to have so many farmland areas in the middle east.)

Thanks much in advance!