The maps created by the game are actually pretty interesting. After a while though one realizes that they are just long contorted stripes of lands and islands are pretty rare and quite empty. The reason for that is that the AI cannot start in an island, since in order to do that it should learn how to use a boat.

Because the AI cannot use a boat, all enemies can always be reached without a boat... which makes boats useless.

In my opinion teaching the AI how to use a boat will be a very important step for a competitive gameplay.

Hopefully we'll see that in the future.