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Another poster suggested:

In this post

that the map be capable of rotation to mitigate the river tending to make a long vertical skewed start.

While this may be a large developmental undertaking with unexpected complications, having the original river tile start with the river flowing horizontally from the source instead of vertically solves it instantly. I wold love to see this implemented.

I agree with this.

That makes a lot of sense.

Does it?

1. The orientation of the river (vertical, horizontal, diagonal) depends on the order of tiles. I had some river games that were very horizontal.

2. What about players on smartphones, would they love this, too? I am not so sure.

The better option would be a "turn the game by 90°" button. I think this could disrupt a lot of existing code, but if you would like this option, too, upvote my proposal

Robo

This is what I was going to start a thread about. I've been playing Carcassonne regularly now and the first river tile pointing down is annoying. Sure, whatever, the placement of subsequent tiles can make the river run horizontal somewhat, but more often then not the starting tile for the river determines the direction of the river, and it's a waste of my wide computer monitor space and I have to constantly zoom out and move the screen much more that I think I should or would have to. What a ridiculous counter to the lead anyway, who can play this game on their phone? A tablet I would believe, but tablets and phones both can rotate their screen anyway. It's completely and undeniably the most sensible thing to have the start tile for the river point in a random horizontal direction. Could the programmers please make this happen?