Yeah, originally tried the table as just the map but left no area for AST board or Civilization cards, so I tweaked the jpeg to include the AST and an area for the cards. With this game there's enough room near the player's hands to put your player mat and civ cards nearby on the table rim so this seems to work (for me at least).

Great changes. I have been experimenting with tables that are the map (see my Merchant of Venus and Legend of Robin Hood modules) and I quite like them, although in some cases they aren't adequate because you may not have enough space for cards, tokens and the like.

I love the new tokens. Only recently have I been able to model objects in 3d and associate textures (I did it for Robin Hood), so I tend to use square tokens. Plus I find it's more efficient to just use a deck for tokens and adjust size instead of using custom 3d models. But then again it does look better like this. And the census markers are invaluable. Great stuff.