[paradoxharbinger]

you're right about that sounding fairly complex, but it sounds good. i think the only place you might run into problems with is if you cant find a suitable number of start sites, you'll start need to relaxing your restrictions. probably wont run into problems with higher province count maps, but on smaller ones, it could be an issue.

also, not sure about the corners thing, but a possible work around might be that the province numbers are related to position of a province in it's image. might help, might not just throwing it out there.