After several runs, i noticed that even in the "largest" setting, maps feel to craped.
Most of the time, you will spawn to close to the AI, like two territories away, this caused many problems with quest due to the fact that some important locations were in someones else territory or in the other side of their empire, you just had to trespass to get there.
Its true that after the tidefall, the maps opens up a bit, but the main problem is at the start, the starting area is too small.
#Maps need to be bigger
inner pagoda
mighty bane
Argee, had a last lord’s early quest in enemy’s territory