i find one of the things i like the most about ciV is the map generation. it looks ten thousand times better than civ4.
i couldnt stand the square continents. and then in BTS they tried this dumb thing where they made maps that had plains for like 30 tiles then 30 tiles of mountains then 30 tiles of tundra. it was horrible, idk why anyone liked that.
i find it weird you never got a mountain, i keep getting really good mountain chain sort of deals in my map, had a game where i had a big peninsula sorta like india cuz i had big mountains protecting the whole entrance into it except for a small pass. which of course was the site of many battles throughout that game.