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    Your rivers are really wrong. They make crosses everywhere wich mean that your landmass is a bunch of seperate islands. I think it was not your intention so there is a couple of things you can do to improve.

    1- lakes only have 1 source of water coming out. It's possible to have more but it's unlikly.
    2- river flow downhill making the shortest route to the ocean
    3 they only join up when they flow downhill
    4- if you surround a patch of land with water it will generaly be considered an island so you should separate them somewhere in the middle
    It's possible but rare that 2 important rivers take their water from a near source. But even so, it's just a tiny river at start and it's better to avoid mapping it because it's too small and confusing.

    One question : what are the approximate latitudes of your map ?

    Other than that, I'm not really a good drawer so I can't give advices.
    Last edited by Azélor; 08-23-2013 at 12:15 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azelor View Post
    Your rivers are really wrong. They make crosses everywhere wich mean that your landmass is a bunch of seperate islands. I think it was not your intention so there is a couple of things you can do to improve.

    1- lakes only have 1 source of water coming out. It's possible to have more but it's unlikly.
    2- river flow downhill making the shortest route to the ocean
    3 they only join up when they flow downhill
    4- if you surround a patch of land with water it will generaly be considered an island so you should separate them somewhere in the middle
    It's possible but rare that 2 important rivers take their water from a near source. But even so, it's just a tiny river at start and it's better to avoid mapping it because it's too small and confusing.

    One question : what are the approximate latitudes of your map ?

    Other than that, I'm not really a good drawer so I can't give advices.
    Not exactly sure about the latitudes exactly. I will be improving my skills where I can.

    Thanks for the feedback

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azelor View Post
    2- river flow downhill making the shortest route to the ocean
    At the risk of being a river nazi, this is a claim that's made a lot around here and it's simply not true. Water has absolutely no idea how far away the ocean is, or which is the shortest route. What they take is the easiest route. Often that's also the shortest, but often it's not. A perfect example would be the Nile, which begins its journey less than 500km from the Indian Ocean, but travels almost 7,000km north to the Mediterranean Sea.

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