I used to favorite this map, now I ban it because it’s so empty. It was made larger in 1v1 in an effort to make map sizes consistent but the new space was filled with nothing. That hurt infantry/siege plays and foot unit civs and made the map more favorable to hussars/CA plays, generally reducing variety, as well as making games longer and more likely to reach 1h30 where we just fight for islands of wood in an ocean of void.
As it’s a dev pick for the next map rotation starting next Wednesday, I humbly suggest to return it to its past smaller size in a future patch.
The area of the blue base is roughly 3900 pixels in 2023, 2400 pixels in 2024. It’s the same base but it shows very well how much the map was enlarged.