Thanks for the change to 103!
In all my practise games other start locations were fine, so I'm sure it was just a one-off.
The other issue I personally had with the map was that it looked too busy - there was so much on there that it took concentration to focus on what you wanted to see. I'm not sure what can be done about that without losing the detail you have, but to me it was quite painful to play on. Maybe something as simple as shrinking province name font, colouring, etc would make a difference, I'm unsure