  With the help of numerical simulations we study N-soliton scattering (N=3,4)
in the (2+1)-dimensional CP^1 model with periodic boundary conditions. When the
solitons are scattered from symmetrical configurations the scattering angles
observed agree with the earlier \pi/N predictions based on the model on R_2
with standard boundary conditions. When the boundary conditions are not
symmetric the angles are different from \pi/N. We present an explanation of our
observed patterns based on a properly formulated geodesic approximation.
