christ what a mess
the best solution, since all the players are at least playing, or wanting to play, is for Jazzepi to recreate the game and use the already submitted pretenders to get it rolling again - I believe he has that option, if QM has pm'ed him the admin info.
The non-sea indies should be random again, though that might not be the case.
personally, I think the map is a bit unbalanced, but running around w/ artifacts can be fun, even if they're mostly not so helpful