-Yeah, we had some long discussions about the crossable straits. We wound up including those gaps that were within a certain distance, and felt like Gibraltar was just too much outside it. It and the English Channel were two that had arguments for and against, but in the end we were pretty much in agreement that they should be left out.
-The scripting guys know more about the victory conditions, I'm afraid I'm pretty ignorant of how that works or how it can be changed. I admit I don't know that I've ever looked at it but once.
-Those rebelling provinces are a pain in the tookus, but we can't do anything about it. THey have to rebel to someone - and it's usually faction creator. We have to set one faction - as slave makes them 'roman'. SO Ancyra is best to rebel to Aedui, even though we don't like it.
-We're talking about the Getai color on the minimap. Maybe we can change it. If we don't, we could supply an alternate color and an easy fix.
-About the fjord: you'd need to present some clear information or maps about the place you're talking about. Stormy is our guy in charge of making sure the map matches the real terrain - but if it's wrong and you post something to correct it, we can get his attention here to it.
-The blank banners thing is a bug we don't know what is causing it though. It only happens in a few places with a few factions. Sorry I don't have a better answer. There is no logical reason it seems why it's doing that. But we have new banners in the patch, so maybe it will stop.
-As for sieges, in vanilla could units get closer during a siege? I didn't think they could, but it's been a year since I played vanilla...