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Math Wolf
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My answer Active games is what matters here. * Ladders have a 3 day boot * The Warzone ladders have a lot more players than MTL * QM has a 1 day boot * Clan Wars is real-time, so not relevant * Diplos en roleplay games take ages, sometimes literally years * Lotteries usually finish fast, Duel finishes almost immediately usually as mentioned by someone else above * Fizzer did mention a while ago that a majority of games is created through QM
So with all that taken into account, my list: 1. Small Earth Board Map - QM, 3 of the first 4 templates 2. Modified Medium Earth - 1v1 ladder + QM + auto game 3. Battle Islands V - active seasonal ladder (can't believe nobody mentioned it yet) 4. Imperium Romanum - QM, but also very popular template outside QM 5. Rise of Rome - QM, but also a very popular classic outside QM 6. Final Earth - 2v2 ladder + QM, plus teamgames take longer 7. Siege - QM with LD template. LD is really slow and games take forever to finish 8. A Song of Westeros and the Free Cities - the most popular Westeros map and likely quite some active diplos on it 9. Europe - 3v3 ladder, but that hasn't many teams/players compared to other ladders. Games take forever though. 10. Scrabble - for some reason very popular, but I think games are more often RT than MD (and we are talking about "active games" at a certain point in time, which means >90% of games will be MD. 11. United States Big [3.1k] - I could have picked any out of this one, Europe Huge, Big World, Issander's Africa or Biomes. I'm choosing United States Big because its games tend to last very long and quite a lot of people still play it.
What about historical data? I'm also curious about the historical data like Onoma answered above. Interestingly, I disagree with his answer for good reason. So for those interested, here is my best guess for the all-time rankings, taking into account also maps that were popular in the olden days. The number of players and games did not increase that much compared to the past and the number of maps was much more limited in the past as well, so I think the maps with the most total games in history will be much different from what it is now. Additionally, real-time will have a bigger impact on the count than it has in the "active games" list.
The top 10 - a clear order 1. Modified Medium Earth (1660 votes) - For many years now used for the 1v1 ladder and default strategic 1v1 template, and a bunch of QM templates. Also a staple of Clan League and default for auto games. 2. Earth (4656 votes) - The original Earth map of Grundie was the go-to map (probably half of the games) for several years in the early days. It's hard to see that massive lead being overtaken when the current landscape is more splintered and dominated by more recent maps. Only the blanket presence of MME should have achieved this (relatively easily). 3. Rise of Rome (4233 votes) - Extremely popular map when it launched and for many years after, up to this date. Its 4233 votes should say enough. One of the few maps (the only?) that is popular among all types of players. 4. Small Earth (3157 votes) - the original Small Earth, from Grundie. Existed many more years than the new small earth, as seen by the number of votes that the map received. However, did not have as much of a presence as the new small earth map, so their numbers may by now be close with the newer small earth taking it over soon if it hasn't already. 5. Small Earth Board Map (1635 votes) - the new and more well-known small earth map. Very often used for a few years, while the maps above it had usually almost or more than double as many years to accumulate games. 6. Final Earth (1087 votes) - A surprisingly limited number of votes, possibly because it only appears late in single-player? It is the 2v2 ladder map for a while and truly the map for the default 2v2 template all over the site. 7. Imperium Romanum (3528 votes) - Its overall popularity can be seen from the sheer number of votes it received. It is and was very often used for both strategic and not that strategic games for years. 8. Europe (3883 votes) - The original Europe map from Troll was used for a lot of purposes for many years and then popularised as the go-to 3v3 map. Of course, people don't play many 3v3s at the same time. Compared to the other maps, the time spent at this map is much larger than the number of games on it. 9. Duel (1024 votes) - For obvious reasons, people have been doing silly lottery duels and chicken games on it for years. 10. Medium Earth (2749 votes) - used for both the old 1v1 and 2v2 ladder, so that must count for quite some games. However, relatively quickly replaced by respectively Final Earth and MME, while before the ladder, the Earth map was the standard, so it shouldn't rank too high.
The next tier - order not so clear anymore 11. Four Castles (838 votes) - quite popular for 4 player FFA for a while, even had a seasonal ladder on it. Now also in the QM list, so it keeps on accumulating games 12. Poland Big (657 votes) - very popular among people from a certain country. This country used to have the second largest player base for a few years. And it's been a seasonal 13. United States Big [3.1k] (1249 votes) - the go to big map for a long time 14. United States (1883 votes) - by Troll. Did you guys even know it existed? It was extremely popular for years, although I haven't seen it used for several years now 15. Eastern Asia (1411 votes) - used a lot in the old strat community 16. Fall of Jerusalem - The Crusades (1263) - very popular for a few years 17. Scrabble (1113 votes) - I really don't know why, but people do seem to play this map a lot... 18. Double Earth (944 votes) - This map was surprisingly popular in the olden days, likely for lack of better alternative (sorry Fizzer) 19. Bracketology (1028 votes) - another old map that you'd be surprised how many games were on in the olden days 20. Africa (958 votes) - The original Africa map, from sue, very popular in the olden days, one of the oldest maps I believe 21. Huruey's Castle (1490 votes) - briefly very popular and extremely well known (although I suspect it got most of its votes through singleplayer) 22. The Siege of Feldmere (822 votes) - popular in multiple circles 23. Ursa:Luna (799 votes) - everyone seems to know about it, but I can't recall ever seeing an actual game on it 24. Battle for Middle Earth (869 votes) - The original Middle Earth map was quite popular in the olden days 25. The Big World Map (1284 votes) - most popular world roleplay/diplo map? 26. Europe Big (1005 votes) - most popular Europe roleplay/diplo map? 27. Modern Europe (999 votes) - similarly often used for roleplay/diplo, I assume 28. World Big (848 votes) - yet another roleplay/diplo map, taking games from each other 29. Issander's Huge World (789 votes) - see previous ones... 30. A Song of Westeros and the Free Cities (826 votes) - similar to the world and Europe maps, there are many Westeros maps as well, so the roleplaying/diplo games are likely spread out 31. The Lands of Ice and Fire (753 votes) - another popular Westeros map 32. Battle Islands V (746 votes) - The most popular among the Battle Islands maps, a staple in the strat community, and next to Elitist Africa (two different versions) and MME, the only map to be a seasonal twice as far as I know. 33. Europe AD 1600 (1651 votes) - Judging from the sheer number of votes, very popular in the years after its launch (2012), but both in concepts and aesthetics later surpassed by Rise of Rome and others.
And then some - top 100 I guess, but not sure if they come close to top 20 Republic of Macedonia - popular in the strat community (no-split macedonia), but also surprisingly large number of votes for the map (>800) France - Used for French Brawl, but that's about it Issander's New Strategic System: Africa + Elitist Africa 3.0 - There have been 3 versions I believe, splitting the play in between them (Issander's version original and still QM, I think, EA 3.0 MTL+CL). Despite the popularity in the strat community, too recent and too niche to be near top 10 all time. Biomes of America - niche as well, and too recent to be anywhere near the top 10 maps I think, but may be in 10 years Ancient Greece - I'm on the fence about this one, and considered ranking it. Ultimately I decided against it because it has competition from several other similar Greece maps, limiting it to the single template for which it's used. I won't be surprised if it would turn out to be a top 20 map on the other hand. Volcano Island - Typical strat template, but I don't feel it sees any use outside of that, also judging from the low number of votes that the map received (~250) compared to all other maps mentioned by name. New York - Big - An old map that got quite some run in the olden days, but unlike others (Europe, Africa, US) did not see any recent use Quad Earth - Another old map used for FFA in the olden days. Cash Money Lottery - Popular 40 player lottery template. I may be underestimating the number of lotteries, but I don't think this one would make it into the top.
Seasonal maps A few maps have been used for the seasonal ladder, usually also used in MTL and CL. If I didn't mention them here, I believe they are not played enough to make it near the top 10, although the amount of seasonal games by itself should be enough to catapult them firmly into the top 100.
EDIT within 2 minutes to fix a missing "/b" which made all the text bold. If that disqualifies me, so be it. :-)
Edited 10/1/2022 20:45:26
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