This has become an incredibly frustrating issue. When creating a map and placing the starting points, #1 is where you should be placed at the start of a game. However, at the start of every game on a built map involving more than one start point, the start points get randomized. Please fix this bug because it makes the Map Builder function extremely unattractive.

Good alternative would be something that would allow them to be either randomized or fixed.

I want the start point to be randomized.  If I'm playing on a built map, real Earth for example, I don't want every play-through to start at the same place.  Because, where's the joy of exploration if that's the case?  So having a random start/non-random start choice in the game set-up menu is probably the best way to go.

Definitely should be able to lock the starting place for each player on a map.    It can't be that difficult to have random or fixed.