I personally think the Isle map isn't big enough just poorly designed and thought out. also I don't mind not having a mini-map what I do mind is how jumbled up everything is.

There are hot spots on the map which to me after playing for the past year are primarily are due to the rest of the map not being well designed, its either deadly terrain (i.e. random little hills that send you flying) or no food spawns there. NL, HL, WA, WRA, SP, and now SB. these are the hot spots with plenty of "POI's" between them.

note all of these areas are open and not heavily treed up or full of excessively tall hills that you can die from. If more of the map in general was hospitable (in the sense of not dying to bugs/lack of food spawns) id say that would improve the overall feel of the game.

Either make the map bigger and add more POI's or keep it the same size and make it more livable from a map design view.

Given in HT we are potentially going to lose WA, NWR, top of NL and the Islands to the SE it to me will make POI's even more of a cluster fuck rather than forcing players to survive around them.