(whereas fighting on the NA side largely, I think, prevented anyone from having one long, free caravan area)
It's not just the fighting. Something like the half the space allotted to NA is a patchwork of rivers and mountains that turn any long distance travel into a massive fucking chore as you weave around map hazards to avoid touching a bridge's ghost length and slowing to a dead crawl of .0003m/min or whatever.
Also did, anyone ever figure out what that supposed benefit to having a coastal city that chadz said would totally make up for NA getting a shit deal on the map division?