Anyone else in resetting hell (again)?

[Sheba]

So I deleted my island three days ago because my peninsula position annoyed me too much.

I had originally tried for 40 hours to get the map I had, as well as a blue airport and peaches. I hadn't paid attention to anything else.

Now I want blue airport, peaches, peninsula in the very top right corner, longer dock version in the bottom right and, very important, the airport should be in the second possible placement from the left. On top of that all, there's only one or two maps to pick from - I want a west river exit this time around instead of two souths since two souths sucked a lot - since I want resident services in the lower middle of the map and that's...not easy with a west river exit.

So I resetted for 23 hours again by now and haven't even gotten to the point where I could check maps for fruits and airport color because while I have seen the maps I'd be okay with, it's always the peninsula, the dock or the airport position which are wrong. At this point, I'm not even sure if it's doable. I did the math and apparently, the chance of me finding the map I want is around 1:50000.

I think I'll get burnout and just stop playing before that will happen, obviously, but seeing as a compromise made me too unhappy to keep the island the first time around, it is what it is.

So, to stay motivated for at least a bit longer: Did anyone else delete their island a month in? Anyone still stuck in resetting hell (again)?

I miss my villagers a lot and would LOVE to really play again. If there'd be a program which would let me just pick the darn map I want, I'd pay a lot of money for it. It's really frustrating to have such a low chance of being able to play the game the way I want to play it. So, uh, yeah...how many people share my issues?

 

[DJStarstryker]

Other people are definitely in your shoes. I've seen people posting about it.

I personally am not going to do this. I've put way too many hours into my island. There's a few things I wish it had, but that is way, way too much work to catch back up.

 

[tajikey]

63 hours to get the right map? Holy heck!

 

[Feferily]

I'm unsure if I'll reset but ... I do not like my Island at all so I feel you! I don't like where the outcropping is/how small it is, the secret beach is right in the center, I don't like the airport colour, and my town center is so close to my airport... I never realized how annoying that was going to be for making any cool cliff editing around my entranceway! Ah!

 

[Sheba]

Yeah I was at 160 hours played (which included the 40 reset hours before I started, though). It hurt. Horribly. But I just couldn't do what I wanted with the peninsula where it was and I hated it so, so much. I managed to make everything else work somewhat, even the south river exits (just made two waterfalls directly at the sea and simulated a west river exit by making another waterfall connected to the river in the west) but the peninsula? Not happening.

I miss Fauna the most, she was far more lovely to have than I thought she would be. And I do miss a lot of features from my island. If I would see the same map again with everything in the right spots, I would choose it despite the south river exits. Just that peninsula...that needs to be in a spot where I can ignore it for good. Stupid thing.

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63 hours to get the right map? Holy heck!

Lol I'm not even there. Like, not even close. Again, chance is 1:50000. Don't think it'll ever happen. But I try...I still try...

 

[swifterly]

I think I have... fairly similar to the map you want |D

...tho im not sure about the positions of the airport and town hall. i reset 5 days in because I wanted pears and I didn't like my starting villagers. (Apparently I'm part of the small minority who genuinely wants pears???) My airport is yellow which I'm fine with. Had to reset 8 times to get pears. Tbh the peninsula kind of annoys me, like what is it doing all the way up there...? But I had it in the middle on the left previously and it was rather awkward.

I don't care about a lot of the details and wouldn't reset this far in but omg your DEDICATION,,, i respect you

 

[Aliya]

I recently went through this and it took me around 20 hours so I understand what you're going through. I found a map very similar to what you're describing (except my peninsula is in an odd place) so it's definitely possible! Keep up the effort and it'll pay off. I'm more than happy to lend an ear if you ever need to vent since I really can relate to the struggle.

Editing to add an initial picture of my map right when I started. Things are different now, but I slightly modified the main shape of the river in my final design. My airport is blue, peaches are my fruit and my plaza lines up with the airport so it was worth the reset struggle bus.

Spoiler: Map

 

[stargurg]

YES. it took me almost a week from resetting to find my perfect map. i was at ~250 hours played before i restarted, but it wasn't anything special i just played A LOT. spent ~75 hours trying to find the perfect map, there would literally be hours where nothing even close to the map i want would show up. it was brutal, i was definitely burnt out trying to find my island and did not wanna play as much as i did before resetting. i deleted my island a week ago, but it honestly was worth it bc i love how my island is even before terraforming. i love my orange airport, double south river exits, my extra strip of land is on the right but not at the top kind of centered, my pier is on bottom left. and townhall and airport are centered and line up kind of. i also did compromise for some things, like i didn't want my secret beach in the middle but rather more towards the left a lil off cetnered. also i try not to think about all the recipes i lost or my precious tutu. T^T but it's definitely worth it and i felt so much happier (i also didn't know you could choose those 3 villagers that first move in from mystery islands or whatever?? does everyone know this?? so kind of messed up there bc i had villagers in mind for after those 3, but had i known i could choose them before moving them in i definitely would have but i actually love my first 3 rando villagers??? worked out pretty well).

 

[Fey]

I feel you because even though I got the peninsula exactly where I wanted it, I’m now wishing it were higher up. But maybe if there’s something to learn from that, it’s that you can never expect to know what’s best going in. Plans can change over time, and something less than ideal might turn out for the better or vice versa.

I’m sorry you’re going through that, and honestly think you shouldn’t. Is there any of the features you’d consider compromising on?

Also serious question for anybody: what exactly is better about the long pier?

 

[Chachamaru]

Peninsula? The little private beach thing right?

Post automatically merged: May 2, 2020

I deleted my original town which had terraforming unlocked and all that jazz in an attempt to get lilies as my native flower (long story short, not possible.) I reset 3 days and passed various island layouts I really loved, but didn't stop until I found dom on day 3 of constant resetting. my current layout is much better then my first (I made the stupid choice to have two south river exits in my first town) and it feels so much better, but I still think about how amazing 2 or 3 of the maps I found were. Ah well. Cant have it all, c'est la vie.

I'm all caught up now and in fact my town is nearly entirely complete. I'm very happy with it.

 

[Sheba]

I'm so happy to hear from people who went through the same thing and who had the luck of finding their dream island!
To show, this was my old map:

The resident services, airport and dock were all in the perfect spot, but that damn peninsula...
What I want to do with my island is something like this (made in island designer rather sloppily so the airport and resident services are a bit too much right):

So basically, I want to keep everything from my old island except for the left river exit and especially the peninsula position. I made a lot of screenshots of my old island so that I could rebuild the middle isle in the river easily enough, but there are close to no maps with resident services in the same spot when it comes to non-south-river-exits.

I took a look at the pictures people posted in the map thread here and made this kind of collection (I hope no one of the people with these maps are unhappy with me doing this, please let me know if you are one of them and don't like me posting this):

At the top is my old island, then below the two maps I thought are closest to that and on the bottom the not-so-good alternatives where resident services is too far west. If anyone reading this has a different map where resident services is in the center like on my old island and a west exit, please speak up - I would love to add more possible maps to my lineup and it's sometimes so impossible to tell when having to select a map from the four offered ones since they don't show the grid.

Thank you for listening to me, everyone. I need to stay motivated somehow and it's rough.

 

[stargurg]

I feel you because even though I got the peninsula exactly where I wanted it, I’m now
wishing it were higher up. But maybe if there’s something to learn from that, it’s that you can never expect to know what’s best going in. Plans can change over time, and something less than ideal might turn out for the better or vice versa.

I’m sorry you’re going through that, and honestly think you shouldn’t. Is there any of the features you’d consider compromising on?

Also serious question for anybody: what exactly is better about the long pier?

personally i just like how much farther it extends & it just looks far more aesthetically pleasing than the short one. i didn't know there we shorter piers though, always had and seen the long one (subconciously tho i just i feel like the longer it goes the better my fish will be for some reason lol!)

 

[Sheba]

I recently went through this and it took me around 20 hours so I understand what you're going through. I found a map very similar to what you're describing (except my peninsula is in an odd place) so it's definitely possible! Keep up the effort and it'll pay off. I'm more than happy to lend an ear if you ever need to vent since I really can relate to the struggle.

Editing to add an initial picture of my map right when I started. Things are different now, but I slightly modified the main shape of the river in my final design. My airport is blue, peaches are my fruit and my plaza lines up with the airport so it was worth the reset struggle bus.

That is suuuuper-close to what I am looking for, your resident services is just a bit too far left for me but the rest - except for the peninsula - is perfect! What a nice map you have and the correct fruit and airport as well! Did you know that just the fruit+color combination has only a 5% chance? You got so lucky!

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YES. it took me almost a week from resetting to find my perfect map. i was at ~250 hours played before i restarted, but it wasn't anything special i just played A LOT. spent ~75 hours trying to find the perfect map, there would literally be hours where nothing even close to the map i want would show up. it was brutal, i was definitely burnt out trying to find my island and did not wanna play as much as i did before resetting. i deleted my island a week ago, but it honestly was worth it bc i love how my island is even before terraforming. i love my orange airport, double south river exits, my extra strip of land is on the right but not at the top kind of centered, my pier is on bottom left. and townhall and airport are centered and line up kind of. i also did compromise for some things, like i didn't want my secret beach in the middle but rather more towards the left a lil off cetnered. also i try not to think about all the recipes i lost or my precious tutu. T^T but it's definitely worth it and i felt so much happier (i also didn't know you could choose those 3 villagers that first move in from mystery islands or whatever?? does everyone know this?? so kind of messed up there bc i had villagers in mind for after those 3, but had i known i could choose them before moving them in i definitely would have but i actually love my first 3 rando villagers??? worked out pretty well).

Wow you sound a lot like me! And yes, you can invite the first three villagers from mystery islands, but they will not come with their "normal" house interior. I worked hard on my first island to get the ones I wanted, just to have them then in ugly houses, so if I ever find my perfect island, I will invite animals I don't want to keep because of the house interior and then hope that the mystery island miracles will happen again to me. On the island I erased, I had five dreamies...it hurt losing them. All gotten through mystery island tours, no amiibo or trade involved. Also nice to hear someone loves the south river exits lol!

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I feel you because even though I got the peninsula exactly where I wanted it, I’m now wishing it were higher up. But maybe if there’s something to learn from that, it’s that you can never expect to know what’s best going in. Plans can change over time, and something less than ideal might turn out for the better or vice versa.

I’m sorry you’re going through that, and honestly think you shouldn’t. Is there any of the features you’d consider compromising on?

Also serious question for anybody: what exactly is better about the long pier?

I could live again with two south river exits, hence me saying that if I get my exact old map again, just with the peninsula in the "good" spot, I would take it over a west exit map. The peninsula really, really was a dealbreaker, I could have made the rest work and many parts of my island were really beautiful. I loved the cliffs and the island. No terraforming needed there at all, as you might see from what I had planned in the island designer. So yeah, it was a shame. But the peninsula had all my rage. I needed two weeks to come to a decision to reset, too - but I did it. Do I regret it? Yes and no. Yes because if 95% are perfect, deleting for 5% seems dumb. But then again...if you have a tasty tea that's 100% tea, that's great. But a tea that's 95% and 5% sewer water...no one would drink it. I would have never gotten happy with my island. So basically, I am now searching for "my old island except with a better peninsula and maybe a west river exit but everything else should stay the same, please".

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I'm unsure if I'll reset but ... I do not like my Island at all so I feel you! I don't like where the outcropping is/how small it is, the secret beach is right in the center, I don't like the airport colour, and my town center is so close to my airport... I never realized how annoying that was going to be for making any cool cliff editing around my entranceway! Ah!

Yeah I found that a lot of things started bothering me more and some less the more I played and learned what was really important to me. Everyone in the beginning said that fruits are not important because you can get them all anyway and so are flowers, but seeing the same fruits and flowers on all the mystery island tours bumped them up in importance to me. But the south rivers, which I dreaded, became less important/damaging when I unlocked my island designer and saw that I could work around them.
If you reset, feel free to reach out so we can be miserable together lol.

 

[trashpedia]

I was thinking about restarting because I just really hated having two river outlets heading south and how the town hall was far away from the airport. I decided against it because I spent waaaaaay too much time on my island and I didn't want to loose my villagers. I don't think it's worth having to spend 200+ more hours over minor things.

 

[moon_child]

Whoah that is dedication. Props to you. I personally wouldn’t do it because I don’t have the patience and I kinda like the challenge of terraforming around things.

 

[Sheba]

I was thinking about restarting because I just really hated having two river outlets heading south and how the town hall was far away from the airport. I decided against it because I spent waaaaaay too much time on my island and I didn't want to loose my villagers. I don't think it's worth having to spend 200+ more hours over minor things.

Well, I guess it's all about how minor those things are to you and I guess everyone also likes different things. I do suffer from OCD (as in, the actual illness, not what people often jokingly say online when they play videogames and are like 'hur hur I need my inventory sorted properly or my OCD is not satisfied) and I think that's definitely not helping in my island case.

Whoah that is dedication. Props to you. I personally wouldn’t do it because I don’t have the patience and I kinda like the challenge of terraforming around things.

Haha, I was really bad at terraforming, so I think I kinda feel like the resetting challenge is more doable than the terraforming challenge. As in, I tried to make the peninsula into something for two weeks with all tools available, but nope, couldn't figure anything out. I did have a few ideas, but none worked because of its shape/size.

 

[Aliya]

That is suuuuper-close to what I am looking for, your resident services is just a bit too far left for me but the rest - except for the peninsula - is perfect! What a nice map you have and the correct fruit and airport as well! Did you know that just the fruit+color combination has only a 5% chance? You got so lucky!

My Resident Services door lines up directly with my airport dock so it was worth it for me! That was the main thing I wanted along with the blue airport. I was okay with apples or peaches for my fruit because I was getting annoyed after 15 hours of resetting. It was frustrating flying in so many times and having the airport and fruit be something other than what I wanted.

I spent a lot of time on my old island and it was a tough decision to reset, but I found cyclers to hold my villagers and I'm much happier now with my new layout. I've had my new town for a little over a week now and I'm almost done TTing up to present day. My island is almost complete and I am so excited! I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for soon!

 

[MOON TRIPS]

I just resetted a few days ago. I'm not too picky about most things, I just wanted to be able to make a nice hub of the shops and resident services and have the river not be too awkward. I got what I wanted, but I'm going to have to do a lot of relocating of buildings, which is gonna suck.

 

[Sheba]

My Resident Services door lines up directly with my airport dock so it was worth it for me! That was the main thing I wanted along with the blue airport. I was okay with apples or peaches for my fruit because I was getting annoyed after 15 hours of resetting. It was frustrating flying in so many times and having the airport and fruit be something other than what I wanted.

I spent a lot of time on my old island and it was a tough decision to reset, but I found cyclers to hold my villagers and I'm much happier now with my new layout. I've had my new town for a little over a week now and I'm almost done TTing up to present day. My island is almost complete and I am so excited! I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for soon!

I thought about that, too, but so far I have only seen maps where resident services is like...one or two steps off and that would then annoy me too much I guess. Either perfect or not lined up at all. But yeah, I sometimes go eight hours without a map I check in with because of peninsula and dock and airport position and when I then do and see pears I want to cry. During my first resetting for my first island, I had to check 24 times before I got one with peaches+blue and yeah, when it's just a single map you're looking for and it can be hours between the thing showing up again, the flying in is always nervewrecking and often very, very disheartening.

 

[Soigne]

i am not resetting in this game because i know exactly what you're going through. i honestly never properly played new leaf in all the 6 years that i had it. 4000+ hours & the majority of them were spent resetting for maps.

don't let that happen to you!