I'm voting 3x3 for my CPU's sake. Dunno how long this is gonna last, and the lake as opposed to river might help.
I see, well thats two each way.
Aqizzar and Cojoes will have to decide. However remember my earlier point about the lack of trees on the 4x4. Makes for an even more challanging game >:3
EDIT: however the 3x3area could be shunted south, trading two desert tiles for another mountain area, and a chasm. Creating a semi third choice.
Once we've got the area voted on we should probably think about equipment, We cant really afford to keep voting about everything, so Unless someone really, really, really disagrees with me, the equipment should be a fair balanced outlook.
EDIT: list will be posted up on next post shortly.
that including every dwarf having 10/10 skills is exactly the maximum amount of points allowed, and gives a fair starting for every player, as it has the basics required to go for any sort of set up.
(for instance I usually drop the anvil and buy it come autumn, but others may set up a metal working industry fast, and so I've included it, like wise some players may not want to set up food straight away so ive put enough supplies in so that theres no huge rush to set up farms.
And theres every seed except Dimple Cups so That you could get a clothing industry and all the different alcohols you like up and running as fast or as slow as you want.