MAPS:
okie
aran is out. It is a lame map. The two pennisulas are pretty much "safe" havens for whom ever gets their Capital placed near them. If someone is a sea nation then there needs to be another sea nation for parity. It is out.
Sundering is out. Too small.
Maps that I have found that are ok but not great are:
Pargonos2:
http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom2/arrs_parganos2.zip
135 provinces, 19 sea provinces.
ISSUES: the people in the middle get fcuked. The people in the upper left hand corner get ufcked due to no money lands. All mountain up there.
Karan:
http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom2/karan.zip
162 provinces, 20 sea provinces.
ISSUES: we are playing that now. And it might be a bit too big for 6 people.
Valhalla:
http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom2/valhalla.zip
Number of provinces: 112. 23 or 24 sea provinces (from my count)
ISSUES: no real interesting terrain. everything basically connects to everything else. Water circles the entire thing.
Anyone have other map suggestions? It would be nice to let everyone have 15-18 provinces with no conflict. So ~100 province map or so