diff --git a/client/ui/implant/apps/atlas/atlas_window_geometry.gd b/client/ui/implant/apps/atlas/atlas_window_geometry.gd
index ea669d1a5..649458607 100644
--- a/client/ui/implant/apps/atlas/atlas_window_geometry.gd
+++ b/client/ui/implant/apps/atlas/atlas_window_geometry.gd
@@ -163,7 +163,12 @@ const ATTRACTORS_VISIBLE_BY_RUNG: Dictionary = {"Region": true, "District": fals
 ## "canvas-local px" domain every other drawn feature in this cluster already
 ## uses, scaled by the caller's own view zoom like everything else in
 ## `_canvas`). District trunk dots are smaller AND drawn at reduced opacity
-## (60%) — the "fade down" the ruling describes; Region dots are full-strength
+## (80% — raised from the ruling's initial 60% in Araminta's PR #195 capture
+## review: at 1.6px/60% the dot was "essentially invisible without knowing
+## where to look", underselling the 'a major river crosses near here' intent;
+## 2.0px/80% keeps the fade-down ladder vs Region's 2.2px/100% without
+## reading as accidentally-erased) — the "fade down" the ruling describes;
+## Region dots are full-strength
 ## opacity (alpha baked into the reused COLOR_GEN_RIVER/COLOR_GEN_MOUTH
 ## constants themselves, alpha 1.0). Quarter has no entry — rivers don't draw
 ## there at all, so no radius/opacity is ever looked up for that rung.
@@ -173,8 +178,8 @@ const RIVER_DOT_RADIUS_BY_CLASS_REGION: Dictionary = {
 	RIVER_CLASS_TRUNK: 2.2,
 }
 const RIVER_CONFLUENCE_RADIUS_REGION: float = 3.5
-const RIVER_DOT_RADIUS_DISTRICT_TRUNK: float = 1.6
-const RIVER_DOT_OPACITY_DISTRICT_TRUNK: float = 0.6
+const RIVER_DOT_RADIUS_DISTRICT_TRUNK: float = 2.0
+const RIVER_DOT_OPACITY_DISTRICT_TRUNK: float = 0.8
 
 ## Mouth double-ring geometry (Region AND District — mouths never de-emphasize,
 ## per the ruling) — verbatim from the retired atlas_marker_overlay.gd