Do you have a link to the Earth 2 map, and any others that are nominated besides the standard one? I'm not well-versed in the Civ4 earth maps that are available, and searching the downloads database for Earth 2 is giving me a Civ2 map.
I'm leaning towards one of the maps that isn't the standard one, since I've played the standard one many times already.
My other votes:
- Barbarians on (but not raging)
- 0 advanced start points (aka regular start).
- I'll favor tech trading off since we'll have two civs apiece. It could be interesting having very different tech strategies for each civ, and would also mean the tech rate wouldn't be sped up because of the 2 civs (and thus the likely giving all the techs each one researches to the other).
- Indifferent to goody huts
- Standard victory conditions.