I like playing on large map but I allways seem to be getting 2 large continents. So I was reloading game over and over to get a decent map and found out that the reason you get large continents is becuase there are too many players. If you remove few players from game, 2-3, you can accualy get decent map with 3-4 continents. Remove 4 (on large) and you get realy nice continents maps that arent crashing into artics and blocking sea ways.