Type Cntl-N to load a new map. Problem solved. But ya I've found there to be too many long mountain ranges.
Yeah, yeah, I know we can keep reloading until we get "the right" map. My issue is that frequently, you don't know for sure until you have spent a half hour or more playing it out. Wasted time, and no amount of Ctrl+N Fixes that.
Yeah seriously, plus something needs to be done about starting location resources. Every starting location should guarantee one random shard, including Life and Death relative to the faction. And regular agricultural resources should be 100% available for starting locations as well.
Not sure if I'm remembering right, but right after you hit the "settle button" for the first time, isn't there a splash screen that pops up talking about how "after years of wandering the wastes, you have finally found a place where you can start your kingdom"? Seems odd to celebrate finding a small copse of dried up twigs growing out of shallow ash. I would keep looking until I found somewhere useful if I were a sovereign.
In practice, starting areas really ought to have at LEAST one 4/3 or 3/4 (or several 3/3) area within the first turn's walk, as well as two resources *just* far enough apart that you can't have both in your ZoC at city founding. If I were a sovereign, I probably would not put down roots for anything that didn't come off as a relatively surprising concentration of resources.
