In my opinion placing limits on opponents amounts by map size only reduces replay value. The only limit should be regions per player. If i have 8 players playing a tiny map, then there must be at least 8 regions.



-I want to be able to play with 8 players on a small map with small regions.

-The more crowded the world the harder the game would be (easy way to artificially increase difficulty beyond endless).

-Allows for fast games that have greater variety of factions etc.



When i would get bored with playing Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri i would play on a tiny world. Everything is hectic and contact/battle is fast and furious- but never boring.

"When i would get bored with playing Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri i would play on a tiny world."



Haha! I would do this too. In fact, I custom-sized the world as small as possible without bugging it out (if you reduced it to the MINIMUM possible size you would be the only faction to even make it to the surface.. you'd crash on a pitiful rock of a world and the game would immediately pop up "congrats, ALL THIS is yours!")



Seconded to the suggestion.

Oh man this sounds awesome. Plus my meager experience so far is that larger maps crash more. >.>

+1 to this. I want to play with more than 8 AI. in civ I always play huge map with at least 13 players. I want that too in EL.