Double south river mouths: Do you love them or hate them and why?

[lenoreluna]

I'm noticing that lots of AC: NH players either love or hate the double south river mouths and there isn't a whole lot of in between. After 4 months of playing, do you have a strong opinion one way or the other and why?

 

[Red Cat]

I like the symmetry of double south mouths and I also think the rocks at the bottom of the river mouth are easier to see when the mouth is facing south.

 

[moon_child]

My old island had the double south river mouths. I recently reset and now I have a south and an east facing combo. Comparisons are:
- Double south river maps are tricky to work with in terms of terraforming. You have to be creative to figure out how to use the thin strips of land on the side.
- Double south river maps are more open and the beaches on the side are unobstructed so it’s easier to farm balloons when you need to (for recipes on Cherry Blossom and Bunny Day events).
- Double south river maps kind of forces you to design your island symmetrically.

 

[Snowifer]

I purposefully avoided a double south river when choosing an island, so I guess I'm on the hating side. It just seemed so much harder to work with.

 

[Bluebellie]

I have double south. I think they are ok. My map fits perfectly with them. I’m too far in to contemplate any other rivers

 

[xTech]

Double south rivers is just too much in my opinion. I like to just have one pretty long river going through my island, that branches off once so it splits up my island into 3 sections. It feels a lot more natural that way, and also makes it a lot easier to decorate around them. Although to be fair, I rebuilt all my rivers very soon after I unlocked the option for water terraforming, so it doesn't matter too much what I get at the start, at least not to me personally.

 

[Pyoopi]

Honestly, I didn't think it was a problem until I realized they sorta constrict the size of the island. Like the little thin strips of land on the east and west coast are pretty difficult to keep or work with.

I went from this:

To currently this:

I'm going to reroute my right river which is a.. task. Hopefully I won't die and regret everything. If I do just say the great black bass god was too powerful.

 

[Barney]

I have two southern river mouths and I like it.

It basically gives me a central 'island' within the main island, which has my resident services, airport, shops, and a couple of houses.

The rest of the island surrounding that has the other houses, museum and various things I've created.

 

[Snek]

I Iike them because they're symmetrical. When I picked out my maps in the beginning, I made sure to get double south river mouths. My island is fine with them.

 

[Marshmallows]

Maybe if I was going for a Venice or Babylon look,l the double south rivers would work well, but I avoided it when I picked my island.

 

[Hirisa]

My map has two southern river exits and it was only a big challenge while terraforming was locked. With terraforming unlocked, ultimately the river exits don't matter much as I can always reroute rivers to create wider swathes of land to the east and west, or even remove rivers entirely.

 

[meela]

I recently reset my island, I had a south and west mouth in my first island, and now I have a double south mouth. It honestly doesn't annoy me too much, I'm still excited to design my island! I can definitely see how it may annoy other people though, i agree it does force some sort of symmetry.

 

[Sharksheep]

I have a double south end river. It's a mix of love hate especially with designing the rivers. On a lot of islands with double south ends, they just fill one in so they have more land to work with on the side. I'm trying to utilize both so I'm just designing my island and going to work my rivera around my design and hope it works out in the end.

My airport is to the left and my residence services is to the right and in the back so I can't have a symmetrical island anyway and I don't really want a symmetrical island. They look pretty and all but they are not interesting to me.

 

[DeltaLoraine]

I had no idea people hated them until after I designed my island. I really like the symmetry of it and I think it looks pretty nice with the rivers! It's fun having my town be on an island within an island

Edited: Fixed my wording because I said island too much in every sentence xD

 

[justalittlemad]

I had double south rivers and hated them. They played a big part in my decision to restart my entire game.

 

[mitfy]

i have double south river mouths and i'm not really a fan. i chose that island map because i heard you can't cross the rivers until later on, so i chose the one with the biggest mainland to put the houses on. also, i like having long, uninterrupted stretches of beach on the left and right. now it's quite bothersome. some of it is poor planning on my part, though.

 

[AstralFirework]

I have double south rivers, and last month basically made them into an inverted Y, with my plaza at the top of the fork. It's not great, but it works okay.

If I had realized it wasn't a good thing, I would've picked a different layout. It's a bit too late now for that.

 

[Imbri]

To be honest, I didn't think much about the rivers when I chose my map. I was mainly focused on the 3rd level cliff with a pond in the upper corner, since I knew from the beginning that I wanted to place my house there.

It has been a bit of a challenge to fit everything I want, but it also has made for some designs I might not have attempted otherwise. I like the symmetry, I also like that it made it easy to divide the island into 3 development "stages" - highest amount near the airport/RS, slightly less for the neighborhoods, and the upper back the least developed.

 

[JSS]

I don't mind them that much. I have two south ones and worked around one. Now it just looks like it's a part of the sea that went a little bit further in.

Spoiler: Like so.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1283486966370033664

 

[sarosephie]

I deliberately avoided picking the double south ones because I wanted a unique residential area that was part of a landmass.

Mostly I wanted to create mini continents on my island dedicated to certain areas.

Really wish river mouths were an option to change like, either change 1 or 2 at the same time. But some things have to be permanent -sigh-