This map looks great, I'm just curious from those that have played, are the corruption and research settings working well?
I noticed he has the optimal cities set to 60, but I think this might be a mistake. Since there are 31 civs, and only 512 cities to go around, the average civ will only end up with 16.5 cities. To get past the optimal city number you'd have to control, almost 12% of the cities in the world, while you are just 3% of the civs, if you know what I mean. It'd be tough to reach it, I'd think this should kick in a lot sooner on this type of map.
Is there something else that counteracts this?
Again, it looks like a great map, I'm just curious as to how it scales on corruption and research (does the tech race go to slow or fast, based on years?).