Continents continue to suck.
Not only does the massive amount of ocean take up way too much room on the map, the inability to reliably traverse it on a fresh character makes it fucking impossible to find a place that's not right on top of another claim. I have spawned 6 characters over the past 5 days, and walked around for 5 to 6 hours on each until I either died from an unlucky dugout decay on ocean or simply gave up after seeing no direction to head for island hopping. I have never been out of sight of an established claim, even in the ocean every island worth anything has a big claim on it and half the useless tiny rocks in the middle of nowhere have someone on them. The one single time I thought I found an empty place I threw up a claim, went to bed, and woke up to find 6 people swarming around and some jackass that threw up another claim literally one minimap away from mine.
This is dumb, it's not fun, I don't even really have a suggestion other than make the map generation and spawn area not cancer.