Crown icons on map?

[llamabeast]

They are victory points, and they spread dominion as normal. However, they don't contribute towards victory (for your case when using standard victory conditions), so their presence is to some extent an anomaly.

[Chazar]

Thanks for the clarification!
Apparently our server used an old version of the map that contains victory points.

Is it possible to just update a map-file during an ongoing game, or will this cause "Something went wrong"-errors?