Now, not sure about playbility, it was ok in my case but it seems that another thing which is somewhat screwed by the patch is a few map-generating scripts. The maps (continents specifically) are really different and they are weird, I'm telling you. May be more balanced but of really bizzare shape and terrain. Also, I could not get a grassland start out fo 15 starts. It seems there is too much plains on the map. These plains are the game killer imho. But plains it were all the way. Grassland seems to just disappear somewhere. Why is it so difficult to make the balanced continents maps? Just count all tiles and make it balanced???????????
Edited: The map feast continued for about 3 more hours with occasional breaks and I'm giving up now. Have not found a single reasonable grassland start which was easy in the unpatched version. Where have they seen that many plains in the real world?
