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Obviously, maps in Knights and Merchants are much, much more complicated then in Age of Kings. Still, Age of Kings used text files that had code describing the layout of resources and terrain for a map. If the Remake did something like this, it would probably have to work like a jigsaw puzzle. It would randomly take "pieces" of terrain that have already been created. It would then put all these pieces together to make a starting location, which would then be mirrored across the map so each play's location is (somewhat) balanced. Obviously (if this even is possible) this wouldn't look near as great as a hand-made map, but it still would be quite interesting.

Yes it would be possible, but even getting it to make quite ugly maps with no elevation would be a huge amount of work. And making it balance them would also be hard. I don't think it's worthwhile giving the amount of time it would take, and also the fact that we have over 120 official multiplayer maps, many of which have only been played a dozen times or so.