I completly agree with koczis in that matter. Actually, according to my experience I need to say that your new map is horrible.
Locations are boring and looks almost the same - it reminds me of some PAKER style mapmaking which are pretty bad and ugly as hell.
One location because of coal position is freaking imbalanced (LOC4). I dont even want to think what kind of stuff you can get on that location.
Anyway every single loc is easy as I’ve never seen before on any of your map. That 5/7 + fast start makes opening of the game easy like no other.
Food on this map is totaly not a problem since you can have first farm in 10 min or mby even faster.... 75/65 loaves? (not sure, I have version with 75 loaves)
For this map is freaking too much and makes it even easier. Most of the time, when you place your inn you need to be prepared that this will slow down ur production,
because the serfs will only concentrate on it. In this map it won’t happen, because all you need to do is load 5 loaves....
The amount of iron ore surely isn’t low. 200 ore for 2 iron mines is actually pretty high number and again it makes game even easier - less buildings that requires iron means more farms or other buildings.
Also you can start making iron weapons in 20 min on every loc because of that horrible/easy as hell settings and resource placement.
I believe that with such settings you can finish ur base in 40-50 min and focus on trades that will be : wooden weapons ------> everything what you need and wooden shield -----> coal/gold/iron.
Map is freaking easy so spamming wooden weapons/shields will be even easier then on classic To map.
If i were MEX T I would say to you : "Pack your map, get into the bus and get the **** out of here cuz you are disgrace to this game"