The bigger the better.

But, of course, there are memory issue, as you know.

I hope that in some future we will have the 64bit version 

Larger than the default large. Elemental feels so much smaller than what I'm use to from the genre. The large elemental maps feel like crowded medium sized Civ maps and small Galciv maps.

Medium, but that's more to do with how the game plays out than something ideal. Larger would be better, I just hate the larger cleanup operations.

Large maps. I rather enjoy going a good while before encountering any of the AI. Give them time to build up and make a name for themselves before they find me and start demanding things of me because my military is deceptively weak.

Medium. Larger is pointless. I can win or lose full or near full house games on medium maps without even seeing some of the AI's. Larger maps really don't offer me anything more. They just make kingdoms further apart so that there is no early game competition. I like fighting for territory right from the start.

I immediately used that tutorial posted way back about making larger map sizes. It crashed my computer so many times. I love The Real Faege (sp?) because it's such a large map with large landmasses and lots of room for expansion.

I remember the old Civ II WWII scenario where it was Europe only. The map was huge - There were so many cities and so many nations. When you played Russia, even though you were huge it took so long to mobilize because of it.

I want a map that is large enough to contain realistically sized continents with details that are comparable to earth. I wish the maps could be rounded so you could actually feel like you were taking over the entire world. Maybe add an option? Obviously just link the sides, don't try to turn it into a globe because flat maps are better for pen and paper feeling.

But seriously, I want something that is reminiscent of the epic sized maps of the Civilization II+ series, where having twenty cities barely covers a third of a medium sized continent. A map big enough that each of the AI factions can pan out before ever meeting each other and carve out large empires.

Epic should mean epic if it's in relation to size. Or if they added a separate realm or floating islands, maybe that would add enough more to the map that it could be smaller and still feel epic because it'd be like there were multiple campaigns in one.

Small because I feel it makes a slightly more balanced game.

I always play strategy games with maximum available map size.

In theory I prefer large maps, but in practice I play more mediums and smalls, because of balance, challenge, and pacing.

Medium or small with lots of opponents, mainly for the pacing.

I usually go for large maps in games like this because I like the exploring part, but walking around in a brown wasteland with nothing interesting in it what so ever is not my idea of fun.

Large, always.

Small when in a rush. Large when in a mood for something epic.

I prefer 128x128 large or larger and like 256x256, but as mentione byother posters the memory leak issue is MURDER, and I routinly get ooms and post them with the dxdiags and saves while testing on both 32bit & 64bit windows with each gpu manufacturer, but 64 bit with ati leak the most, but laa does help on 64 bit windows

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