Lowering the resources seems to remove the AIs ability to create as much indept flak troops. It forces it to create more at castles and you get AI armies with more national units. It greatly improves the game if you can stand to play with lowered resources yourself.
The Dom2 site still generates daily maps. The pros and cons of setting it up for automation.
Ive been meaning to create a Dom3 map site but until recently most of the maps would have been generated by the Dom3 map program which seemed redundant. Soon it looks like there will be enough different map generators offering different features to make it worth having a site that each night generates a new catalog of randomly created maps for people to look thru.
You can check out these...
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMaps/
There are some examples there with a jpg for each one and a zip file to download the full playable map.