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Ahh this map is gorgeous! Cherries are beautiful and you should totally embrace them - I have peaches but my favourite are apples - however especially with perfect fruit not even being a thing in this (but regardless as I don't remember perfect peaches being particularly special-looking) - cherries make such a cute town fruit and I really like the way they look!! If it's the pink you like about peaches then the red of cherries will go well with pink shrubs and flowers (if anything better than with peaches because of the differing shades of pink vs peach)! Plus having all those cherry trees as your natural fruit could make that cherry blossom season all the more realistic (but for real just writing that I've realised how cool it'd actually be to have cherries as my fruit haha) Hope your health is okay <3
Wait, was the article I read about perfect fruit being implemented in the future a lie? Because I read that and I love the perfect, golden peaches so much!
I love the peaches for their looks, their color (as my island will be full of purple and pink flowers) and just how they...I dunno, fill up the trees? Like, they just have such a good size! I find the apples too bulky, for example. But yeah, given how I love cherry blossom season, you definitely have a point with that, especially since my lower area of the island is supposed to be an eastern-inspired town. But for color aesthetics, everything will have to be peaches anyway, lol. But I definitely love your point of view and you are really right with all of it. I really shouldn't be bothered by the fruit and I dislike that I am. And thank you for asking, my health is okay, don't have the test results from my endoscopy yet though.
When it comes to bells, I honestly don't mind slow grinding and I am also trading here a lot, so that'll work out. I don't mind grinding at all, actually working towards things is what keeps the game fun. If I could just have everything I wanted at once, I would be bored a lot sooner, after all!
Haha, thank you! I know I can take my time, all I need is to remember to keep the date on the 8th to avoid TTing. It's just...frustrating. It's frustrating because it's soooo close but that tiny, little bit makes me unable to fully embrace what is otherwise my perfect map. The thing is that cherries are actually my second favourite fruit, but that doesn't mean that much because I basically think that everything not-peach is pretty crappy lol. But cherries are definitely better than oranges and pears, which I dislike.
Your offer is sooo kind! It's honestly the passport thing that bothers me since the cherries are marked there as an eternal flaw, haha. Your offer is so lovely! Even if I wanted, though - the airport is closed on day 1, so I can't have you or anyone else over.
Well if after thinking you do end up keeping the island and want a big ol' pile of peaches delivered to you just let me know. I'm online pretty often. I actually forgot the first day has a closed air port.
Do you also happen to have a source for the perfect fruit article? I don't recall bumping in to it before and couldn't find anything when googling.
Your new map looks incredible! There are only a few Islands that—from the start—give off a very “special” feeling to me. Something about the geography looks unique, like it’s a place meant to be. Your current map is one of those rare Islands! That’s my honest option, at least.
Now, as far as the fruit goes. I don’t know if this will help you, but hear me out. In English, the phrase “to cherry pick” refers to choosing only the best, while ignoring the rest. This is exactly what you’ve done to find this Island! From countless options, you’ve selected all the perfect features! Doesn’t that make cherries the right fruit to start with? It can be a symbol of your success—of all the hard work, the determination you had, and ultimate payoff. Be proud of that cherry on the passport, because if you keep this Island, it also symbolizes growth. It shows your confidence in having found the right map. Be proud, and then go and make your Island whatever you want it to be. With Peaches and everything!
Wait, was the article I read about perfect fruit being implemented in the future a lie? Because I read that and I love the perfect, golden peaches so much!
I love the peaches for their looks, their color (as my island will be full of purple and pink flowers) and just how they...I dunno, fill up the trees? Like, they just have such a good size! I find the apples too bulky, for example. But yeah, given how I love cherry blossom season, you definitely have a point with that, especially since my lower area of the island is supposed to be an eastern-inspired town. But for color aesthetics, everything will have to be peaches anyway, lol. But I definitely love your point of view and you are really right with all of it. I really shouldn't be bothered by the fruit and I dislike that I am. And thank you for asking, my health is okay, don't have the test results from my endoscopy yet though.
When it comes to bells, I honestly don't mind slow grinding and I am also trading here a lot, so that'll work out. I don't mind grinding at all, actually working towards things is what keeps the game fun. If I could just have everything I wanted at once, I would be bored a lot sooner, after all!
Oh I didn't know about the article! Far as I've read it's 'unconfirmed' but I haven't read a great deal or been keeping in touch with recent news! However it wouldn't surprise me if they make all perfect fruits available to get this time around like in WW, especially with the feature of being able to dig up entire trees - plus I've noticed other things that I think are there to make islands more equal, like all grass being triangle, and cliffs being customizable. I hope you can embrace the cherries, and as someone else said, don't be too hard on yourself or berate yourself if you feel you have to reset. I'd totally keep it, though!! I do totally agree with what you said about not testing islands till you unlock everything - can imagine that would really burn you out!!
Good luck with the endoscopy and glad your health is okay <3
I think the worse part is when you view something awesome on someone else's town and then you incorporate it onto your island, then you watch/look at something else and think that it's even better, then you are in this endless cycle, lol. Thankful that I am past that stage because I was getting super frustrated.
Well if after thinking you do end up keeping the island and want a big ol' pile of peaches delivered to you just let me know. I'm online pretty often. I actually forgot the first day has a closed air port.
Do you also happen to have a source for the perfect fruit article? I don't recall bumping in to it before and couldn't find anything when googling.
Thank you so much! I think what I will definitely do is playing until the second day since Mom delivers a letter with the sister fruit then. If the sister fruit is peaches, then I would actually even have my own source of them with mystery island tours. Still doesn't fix the passport, though. Do you guys often look up the passports of others? I always do when I visit someone to see what they wrote in there, which is probably why it matters to me what's printed in there.
Okay I just looked it up in my dictionary and apparently article is only used for printed stuff and not informative videos. Dang, English. I heard it in a youtube video where they talked about datamining and how they found that updates for three years are planned and stuff like that. It was actually quite a few days back (maybe up to two weeks?), if I end up finding it again I'll link it. I remember watching several videos when the updates-for-three-years thing was confirmed and it was in one of them.
Your new map looks incredible! There are only a few Islands that—from the start—give off a very “special” feeling to me. Something about the geography looks unique, like it’s a place meant to be. Your current map is one of those rare Islands! That’s my honest option, at least.
Now, as far as the fruit goes. I don’t know if this will help you, but hear me out. In English, the phrase “to cherry pick” refers to choosing only the best, while ignoring the rest. This is exactly what you’ve done to find this Island! From countless options, you’ve selected all the perfect features! Doesn’t that make cherries the right fruit to start with? It can be a symbol of your success—of all the hard work, the determination you had, and ultimate payoff. Be proud of that cherry on the passport, because if you keep this Island, it also symbolizes growth. It shows your confidence in having found the right map. Be proud, and then go and make your Island whatever you want it to be. With Peaches and everything!
I know, everything but the fruit is perfect! It just is! This is, with the exception of the cherries (and maybe the beach rocks but those aren't that important to me and I think I got the "magical rocks" again where you can jump from one to the other but not back lol), really the map I had been looking for. It's THE map.
And I do love your way of justifying the cherries so very much! I do feel like this map was sort of meant to be because dang, ONE reset and there it was! It honestly is just my OCD messing with me and that sucks because I don't like my disabilities interfering with my gaming time much. At this point, this is just me vs. my illness and not me being nitpicky and that sucks because you and everyone else is so right. I love your point of view, I love the point of view of me wanting an asian area with actual cherry blossom areas so cherries fit, I love all of those. I just...need to beat my OCD. Ugh.
Oh I didn't know about the article! Far as I've read it's 'unconfirmed' but I haven't read a great deal or been keeping in touch with recent news! However it wouldn't surprise me if they make all perfect fruits available to get this time around like in WW, especially with the feature of being able to dig up entire trees - plus I've noticed other things that I think are there to make islands more equal, like all grass being triangle, and cliffs being customizable. I hope you can embrace the cherries, and as someone else said, don't be too hard on yourself or berate yourself if you feel you have to reset. I'd totally keep it, though!! I do totally agree with what you said about not testing islands till you unlock everything - can imagine that would really burn you out!!
Good luck with the endoscopy and glad your health is okay <3
I don't remember WW at all...but you do have a good point when it comes to moving trees, though is it actually possible to bring trees to other islands and plant them there? I never tried, my friends and I usually just traded flowers. Though I could also see the fruits just turning from perfect to normal when brought to another island... it's all guesswork at this point.
And thank you so much, I know I shouldn't be upset with myself over a game. I just hate my OCD a lot, given how much it already affects me in real life and how dumb it is that it now also affects me in enjoying this game because I should be excited and soooo happy about this map instead of being utterly frustrated with myself.
I think the worse part is when you view something awesome on someone else's town and then you incorporate it onto your island, then you watch/look at something else and think that it's even better, then you are in this endless cycle, lol. Thankful that I am past that stage because I was getting super frustrated.
OMG I had that on my first island. I saw a reddit post about a duck pond and I tried to make one similiar to it and it didn't fit well (space issues) and just looked back and I got upset and that was when I stopped looking at reddit stuff haha. Not that I ever really did, it was a post I found when looking up custom path designs. And it's really an endless cycle because there's so many cool things posted everywhere. A lot of my friends who have twitter post screenshots and I always get jealous and they aren't even the best of the best, I am just not very good at all.
I've been following this thread and really rooting for you and everyone else who is stuck resetting! I think I would recommend at this point taking a break and then seeing how you feel in a week or so. It sounds like that map is excellent, almost perfect for what you are looking for. Fruit trees can be changed, while the layout and colour of the airport cannot. This realistically might be the closest you are likely to get to your perfect map, given how many different possible islands there are, unless you spend a long long time continuing to reset.
After a break it may well be that the problem of cherries over peaches feels far more surmountable. I'm also happy bringing over lots of peaches if that is helpful - lmk and I will save them up. Good luck and try to be kind to yourself
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Also, just read your latest post, OCD can be a really difficult thing to manage, especially if it's become something that's become outcome focused and where you have really specific requirements. I hope you're okay, and hopefully this is a map you can fall in love with and join us in really enjoying the gameplay and villagers and island design etc, it's a great game!
Beat it! From personal experience, my advice is to beat it down and smash it into a million pieces. It’s so so hard, but it’s the only way forward. It took me a while to fully understand that not giving into my obsessive thoughts and compulsions was the right thing to do. OCD has such a powerful hold on us. When I first stopped giving in to it, I was crying and shaking in disbelief, actually asking “do I really not need to do this? Is this really ok?” But it really is ok! I’m sorry if I’m oversharing, I know this isn’t about me—but you’ll be ok. The cherries are ok. Your Island will be great!
If you can’t keep it that’s alright too, and there’s no shame in it. But I think you deserve to give it—and more importantly yourself—the chance ♥
Thank you so much! I think what I will definitely do is playing until the second day since Mom delivers a letter with the sister fruit then. If the sister fruit is peaches, then I would actually even have my own source of them with mystery island tours. Still doesn't fix the passport, though. Do you guys often look up the passports of others? I always do when I visit someone to see what they wrote in there, which is probably why it matters to me what's printed in there.
Okay I just looked it up in my dictionary and apparently article is only used for printed stuff and not informative videos. Dang, English. I heard it in a youtube video where they talked about datamining and how they found that updates for three years are planned and stuff like that. It was actually quite a few days back (maybe up to two weeks?), if I end up finding it again I'll link it. I remember watching several videos when the updates-for-three-years thing was confirmed and it was in one of them.
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I know, everything but the fruit is perfect! It just is! This is, with the exception of the cherries (and maybe the beach rocks but those aren't that important to me and I think I got the "magical rocks" again where you can jump from one to the other but not back lol), really the map I had been looking for. It's THE map.
And I do love your way of justifying the cherries so very much! I do feel like this map was sort of meant to be because dang, ONE reset and there it was! It honestly is just my OCD messing with me and that sucks because I don't like my disabilities interfering with my gaming time much. At this point, this is just me vs. my illness and not me being nitpicky and that sucks because you and everyone else is so right. I love your point of view, I love the point of view of me wanting an asian area with actual cherry blossom areas so cherries fit, I love all of those. I just...need to beat my OCD. Ugh.
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I don't remember WW at all...but you do have a good point when it comes to moving trees, though is it actually possible to bring trees to other islands and plant them there? I never tried, my friends and I usually just traded flowers. Though I could also see the fruits just turning from perfect to normal when brought to another island... it's all guesswork at this point.
And thank you so much, I know I shouldn't be upset with myself over a game. I just hate my OCD a lot, given how much it already affects me in real life and how dumb it is that it now also affects me in enjoying this game because I should be excited and soooo happy about this map instead of being utterly frustrated with myself.
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OMG I had that on my first island. I saw a reddit post about a duck pond and I tried to make one similiar to it and it didn't fit well (space issues) and just looked back and I got upset and that was when I stopped looking at reddit stuff haha. Not that I ever really did, it was a post I found when looking up custom path designs. And it's really an endless cycle because there's so many cool things posted everywhere. A lot of my friends who have twitter post screenshots and I always get jealous and they aren't even the best of the best, I am just not very good at all.
Can't confirm about trees as I don't often connect with others except for trading! But I can't see why it wouldn't work that way!
I get it though, my OCD tends to play into all aspects of life that I care about it! Some don't seem to realise how it can work like that but it sure can and it's so frustrating sometimes!! Maybe if you can accept the cherries they could be a symbol for you as the first step to putting your foot down to the OCD? Think cherries could look great on a flag too - peaches look a bit like butts anyway hahah! You totally can be excited about this map
I've been following this thread and really rooting for you and everyone else who is stuck resetting! I think I would recommend at this point taking a break and then seeing how you feel in a week or so. It sounds like that map is excellent, almost perfect for what you are looking for. Fruit trees can be changed, while the layout and colour of the airport cannot. This realistically might be the closest you are likely to get to your perfect map, given how many different possible islands there are, unless you spend a long long time continuing to reset.
After a break it may well be that the problem of cherries over peaches feels far more surmountable. I'm also happy bringing over lots of peaches if that is helpful - lmk and I will save them up. Good luck and try to be kind to yourself
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Also, just read your latest post, OCD can be a really difficult thing to manage, especially if it's become something that's become outcome focused and where you have really specific requirements. I hope you're okay, and hopefully this is a map you can fall in love with and join us in really enjoying the gameplay and villagers and island design etc, it's a great game!
Thank you so much! Maybe a break is indeed what I need, though thanks to my OCD I doubt that the peach-issue will ever disappear or change. I fully agree that fruits are far less important than the airport color and if we'd know at this point that perfect fruits will never happen, it wouldn't be as hard (but still hard), but perfect peaches are really important to me because they were in New Leaf the only perfect fruits I liked and actually found gorgeous while the rest was very...not awesome lol.
I am so, so grateful that you and others just offer to bring me peaches! I usually don't even plant more than three of each fruit (though I don't know yet how many trees I will actually have in the city area of my island...if I ever get to build it...). And I agree that fruits are the second least important "permanent" thing (only flowers are less important since they don't show up on your passport anywhere), at least at the moment without perfect fruit and that resetting to find this island again would take ages, if it would happen at all.
My OCD is sadly a really bad thing, I am considered disabled because of it and would actually be eligible for brain surgery because I got it really, really bad, so it's not just a thing I'm saying like many others do in half jest. It's a bad illness, but normally it never bothered me in games before. I do miss the game - like, actually playing and experiencing the game, not TTing to quickly unlock island designer to test things over and over - and want to play the game "like intended" so badly again! But I just...want my perfect island which I embrace right from the beginning and the cherries kind of prevent me from doing it with this map and that upsets me so, so much because that's not how I want to feel about the game.
But ugh, I feel like my last posts are just whining and I dislike that, too. This is supposed to be a motivational thread for those who are resetting, not me whining about my OCD all the time. Though I suppose me being in this spot for the third time now means that I am actually pretty lucky at resetting, haha.
I think the worse part is when you view something awesome on someone else's town and then you incorporate it onto your island, then you watch/look at something else and think that it's even better, then you are in this endless cycle, lol. Thankful that I am past that stage because I was getting super frustrated.
Beat it! From personal experience, my advice is to beat it down and smash it into a million pieces. It’s so so hard, but it’s the only way forward. It took me a while to fully understand that not giving into my obsessive thoughts and compulsions was the right thing to do. OCD has such a powerful hold on us. When I first stopped giving in to it, I was crying and shaking in disbelief, actually asking “do I really not need to do this? Is this really ok?” But it really is ok! I’m sorry if I’m oversharing, I know this isn’t about me—but you’ll be ok. The cherries are ok. Your Island will be great!
If you can’t keep it that’s alright to, and there’s no shame in it. But I think you deserve to give it—and more importantly yourself—the chance ♥
I know this is how OCD is supposed to be treated, but after 17 years with it and every doctor at this point telling me that the only thing that can help me is brain surgery, it's kind of...giving me a "well, I tried for almost two decades, guess I have to live with it if I don't wanna get cut open" mentality. And no, it's not oversharing, I think it's really, really awesome that you are so strong at beating it!
I know the cherries are okay. It's just a game. I know I would have a fantastic island. I would hate all the island tours with all the cherries everywhere, but after getting all my dreamies there would be no need for tours anymore, either. I know that. And honestly everyone here is so, so, so kind to me and understanding and patient with me! A part of me actually wishes you would all tell me how dumb I would be if I would reset again to motivate me not to do it, lol.
The thing is: If we ever get perfect fruits and they work like in New Leaf (so only your native fruit can be perfect) and I have cherries, I know I would...just stop playing. Like, for good. Because I would not want to reset again after putting hundreds of hours into an island - there would be ZERO motivation for that - but I love, love, love perfect peaches so so much. And I'm afraid of that fate. Though, to be honest, the passport thing bothers me even without the perfect fruit thing lol. It's all OCD when in reality it's just a bunch of pixels that don't matter and don't even impact game play like the river mouths and peninsula with their placement do.
Can't confirm about trees as I don't often connect with others except for trading! But I can't see why it wouldn't work that way!
I get it though, my OCD tends to play into all aspects of life that I care about it! Some don't seem to realise how it can work like that but it sure can and it's so frustrating sometimes!! Maybe if you can accept the cherries they could be a symbol for you as the first step to putting your foot down to the OCD? Think cherries could look great on a flag too - peaches look a bit like butts anyway hahah! You totally can be excited about this map
Haha my flag is always a hydrangea since they're my favourite flower ever (well, they're not really flowers, I guess, but I love them and their colors). And I would loooove to beat my OCD, though I dunno about making a game I want to enjoy in my free time an actual battlefield against my illness. When it comes to the butt-ness, I really thought that in NL, too, but I find the peaches in NH less...butt-y. Lol. I think out of all the fruits, the peaches look the most like the real deal which really lessens the butt-ness for me. But(t) I definitely see where you are coming from, the jokes about the peaches basically exist in AC for as long as I remember.
Thank you so much! Maybe a break is indeed what I need, though thanks to my OCD I doubt that the peach-issue will ever disappear or change. I fully agree that fruits are far less important than the airport color and if we'd know at this point that perfect fruits will never happen, it wouldn't be as hard (but still hard), but perfect peaches are really important to me because they were in New Leaf the only perfect fruits I liked and actually found gorgeous while the rest was very...not awesome lol.
I am so, so grateful that you and others just offer to bring me peaches! I usually don't even plant more than three of each fruit (though I don't know yet how many trees I will actually have in the city area of my island...if I ever get to build it...). And I agree that fruits are the second least important "permanent" thing (only flowers are less important since they don't show up on your passport anywhere), at least at the moment without perfect fruit and that resetting to find this island again would take ages, if it would happen at all.
My OCD is sadly a really bad thing, I am considered disabled because of it and would actually be eligible for brain surgery because I got it really, really bad, so it's not just a thing I'm saying like many others do in half jest. It's a bad illness, but normally it never bothered me in games before. I do miss the game - like, actually playing and experiencing the game, not TTing to quickly unlock island designer to test things over and over - and want to play the game "like intended" so badly again! But I just...want my perfect island which I embrace right from the beginning and the cherries kind of prevent me from doing it with this map and that upsets me so, so much because that's not how I want to feel about the game.
But ugh, I feel like my last posts are just whining and I dislike that, too. This is supposed to be a motivational thread for those who are resetting, not me whining about my OCD all the time. Though I suppose me being in this spot for the third time now means that I am actually pretty lucky at resetting, haha.
I feel for you so much because I get it, I really really get it. For me my OCD isn't 'stereotypical' so for a long time I didn't realise what it was and thought I was abnormal. From everything I've heard NO-ONE is treatment-resistant and you can get better with a combination of CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), ERP (exposure response prevention AKA exposure therapy), and some commitment on your part. Please PM me if you like and I'm always happy to help and I can link you to a group on FB run by a therapist who many swear by - I can't afford to try him myself but if I could I would, plus the community has helped so much with accepting and dealing with stuff to move forward.
Not whining at all. We're a positive, awesome, helpful community from what I've experienced and hopefully a helpful outlet too Please feel free to PM me if you need a chat, I get it <3
I know this is how OCD is supposed to be treated, but after 17 years with it and every doctor at this point telling me that the only thing that can help me is brain surgery, it's kind of...giving me a "well, I tried for almost two decades, guess I have to live with it if I don't wanna get cut open" mentality. And no, it's not oversharing, I think it's really, really awesome that you are so strong at beating it!
I know the cherries are okay. It's just a game. I know I would have a fantastic island. I would hate all the island tours with all the cherries everywhere, but after getting all my dreamies there would be no need for tours anymore, either. I know that. And honestly everyone here is so, so, so kind to me and understanding and patient with me! A part of me actually wishes you would all tell me how dumb I would be if I would reset again to motivate me not to do it, lol.
The thing is: If we ever get perfect fruits and they work like in New Leaf (so only your native fruit can be perfect) and I have cherries, I know I would...just stop playing. Like, for good. Because I would not want to reset again after putting hundreds of hours into an island - there would be ZERO motivation for that - but I love, love, love perfect peaches so so much. And I'm afraid of that fate. Though, to be honest, the passport thing bothers me even without the perfect fruit thing lol. It's all OCD when in reality it's just a bunch of pixels that don't matter and don't even impact game play like the river mouths and peninsula with their placement do.
That...really sucks. About the doctors, and the surgery. I didn’t even know that was a possibility—but would’ve definitely considered it a few years ago if it was an option for me.
Anyway, I get it. About the passport, and the Island Tours, and just the knowledge that it’s not exactly what you wanted. I’d have a few ideas of how you could approach this Island or even more resetting, but I don’t want to push anything. Just know that you can always reach out to me—I might not be able to help, but I’ll at least understand.
My worst period of OCD was having to write over 100 mostly mundane thoughts down every day, at first I'd memorize them to write in a book, then write on my phone to copy into book which I dreaded as I'd have to go over and over the words to make sure I'd copied them right. Then I just saved them on my phone which helped but at it's worst I'd have to pop into the toilet or subtly get my phone out at work to do it. I remember making up tunes to sing my intrusive thoughts to so I'd remember them and then more and more would pile up and I couldn't resist writing them down. I fully believe that the first step to recovering from that was the day I pressed the wrong button and accidentally deleted every mundane and somewhat important thought from the day. It was an accidental form of exposure therapy and was flat out terrifying at the time, I didn't know how to feel and just felt totally lost when it happened. But it helped. Embrace those cherries if you can <3
I feel for you so much because I get it, I really really get it. For me my OCD isn't 'stereotypical' so for a long time I didn't realise what it was and thought I was abnormal. From everything I've heard NO-ONE is treatment-resistant and you can get better with a combination of CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), ERP (exposure response prevention AKA exposure therapy), and some commitment on your part. Please PM me if you like and I'm always happy to help and I can link you to a group on FB run by a therapist who many swear by - I can't afford to try him myself but if I could I would, plus the community has helped so much with accepting and dealing with stuff to move forward.
Not whining at all. We're a positive, awesome, helpful community from what I've experienced and hopefully a helpful outlet too Please feel free to PM me if you need a chat, I get it <3
Yeah, my main issue is that the typical OCD meds have too many side effects. I tried ERP and that lead to a suicide attempt and so that's a hard no, too. I'm currently in CBT for some other issues after being stuck in a house fire twice, maybe I can learn something useful when it comes to OCD there, too, but yeah...it just kinda sucks for me. I've spent two years in hospital and around eight with therapists, so it's not like I didn't try. But uh, yeah, this is getting very off-topic from AC and kinda dark, so maybe we should get back to discussing about perfect fruits which look like butts LMAO.
I do really appreciate the community here, though! It's really awesome! <3 And thank you so much for the kind offer!
That...really sucks. About the doctors, and the surgery. I didn’t even know that was a possibility—but would’ve definitely considered it a few years ago if it was an option for me.
Anyway, I get it. About the passport, and the Island Tours, and just the knowledge that it’s not exactly what you wanted. I’d have a few ideas of how you could approach this Island or even more resetting, but I don’t want to push anything. Just know that you can always reach out to me—I might not be able to help, but I’ll at least understand.
Yeah, surgery is an option, but it comes with really big risks (permanent stuttering, personality changes...) and you need to undergo surgery again every few years as the electric device needs to be recharged. Also there will be wires through your whole neck and all and I just...find that all scary.
I would definitely appreciate more ideas of accepting this island. Not gonna lie, I didn't have fun with the game in the last month since I deleted my first island. I also didn't hate it or anything, but not having fun with something I did for several hundred hours makes me feel really...I dunno, close to just being done since I have a lot of other games I could play in my free time. I honestly don't know how much interest in resetting I still have in me. Not because I dislike it, just because I have only limited time and so many really fun things to do and while resetting is okay, I could do something more-fun. I do kinda feel like deleting this island comes with the very considerable risk of just being done with the game at this point. But I also feel like keeping this island comes with the same risk as I would obviously invest a lot of time in it and deleting it again when frustration about cherries runs too high would definitely mean me stopping. The implementation of perfect fruits would 100% make me stop without peaches as native fruit, though... I just...don't know.
My worst period of OCD was having to write over 100 mostly mundane thoughts down every day, at first I'd memorize them to write in a book, then write on my phone to copy into book which I dreaded as I'd have to go over and over the words to make sure I'd copied them right. Then I just saved them on my phone which helped but at it's worst I'd have to pop into the toilet or subtly get my phone out at work to do it. I remember making up tunes to sing my intrusive thoughts to so I'd remember them and then more and more would pile up and I couldn't resist writing them down. I fully believe that the first step to recovering from that was the day I pressed the wrong button and accidentally deleted every mundane and somewhat important thought from the day. It was an accidental form of exposure therapy and was flat out terrifying at the time, I didn't know how to feel and just felt totally lost when it happened. But it helped. Embrace those cherries if you can <3
Before my first hospital visit I had 20 hours of OCD each day and not even time to sleep or eat, so that...sucked and I know how bad it can be. I had some period where I had to write and draw a certain image every day, too, so I totally understand what you mean. These days I have this with setting my alarm clock over and over still. I am really proud of you for not breaking down when you had your mess-up moment and actually coming out stronger!
I want to embrace the cherries! I really do! Uggh I wish I could...
I would definitely appreciate more ideas of accepting this island. Not gonna lie, I didn't have fun with the game in the last month since I deleted my first island. I also didn't hate it or anything, but not having fun with something I did for several hundred hours makes me feel really...I dunno, close to just being done since I have a lot of other games I could play in my free time. I honestly don't know how much interest in resetting I still have in me. Not because I dislike it, just because I have only limited time and so many really fun things to do and while resetting is okay, I could do something more-fun. I do kinda feel like deleting this island comes with the very considerable risk of just being done with the game at this point. But I also feel like keeping this island comes with the same risk as I would obviously invest a lot of time in it and deleting it again when frustration about cherries runs too high would definitely mean me stopping. The implementation of perfect fruits would 100% make me stop without peaches as native fruit, though... I just...don't know
My primary advice is to not reset your Island. It sounds like you’re really at a breaking point with the game—and by that I mean that you really might break away from the game entirely if you delete this map.
For now, I recommend you keep the Island. I’d even say keep it, but don’t play much just yet. Take a step away. Take a few days, maybe even weeks, to see how you feel. If you go into the game with too many doubts about the fruit, it’ll probably make it that much harder to go on with it. I think you’re doing the right thing actually—trying to figure out ways to accept it first, before getting started properly. The trick is to change your mindset—not the Island itself. You have however long you need to try this.
While taking the break, try focusing on other aspects of the Island. Enjoy your map, take in the features. Think about your two starters—who are they btw? Engage with the game in some way disconnected from the stress and the fruit frustration.
My primary advice is to not reset your Island. It sounds like you’re really at a breaking point with the game—and by that I mean that you really might break away from the game entirely if you delete this map.
For now, I recommend you keep the Island. I’d even say keep it, but don’t play much just yet. Take a step away. Take a few days, maybe even weeks, to see how you feel. If you go into the game with too many doubts about the fruit, it’ll probably make it that much harder to go on with it. I think you’re doing the right thing actually—trying to figure out ways to accept it first, before getting started properly. The trick is to change your mindset—not the Island itself. You have however long you need to try this.
While taking the break, try focusing on other aspects of the Island. Enjoy your map, take in the features. Think about your two starters—who are they btw? Engage with the game in some way disconnected from the stress and the fruit frustration.
My two starters are Sterling and Plucky. Neither of them are dreamies, but I do think Sterling is funny. Plucky is...not exactly my favourite, but the truth is that I actually prefer villagers I don't like as the "first five" since their houses are messed up and so I prefer them leaving anyway.
I think your primary advice is sound. I should definitely give the island a chance, but not in the "TTing-for-designer" purpose, but more in a general sense. While I usually spend a lot of time on the first day because there's no egg day mess yet (started on April 8th again), I do want to know what my sister fruit is and also get a look at the beach in the top right with the pole. I'll definitely shake off and sell every single cherry, though. I feel like the only way I could ever accept this island is through total denial and cherry replacement.
The thing is that I don't think it'll ever get easier for me to accept an imperfect map. After I got my last testing island, I took a few days off now until after my endoscopy and the result was that it was all the time on my mind that I still had to make a decision about keeping/testing/resetting. I am very, very rubbish at decision-making and constantly mull things over until matters are settled, so these breaks are never really relaxing for me. If I would delete the island now, I could easily take a relaxed month off since there's nothing to decide and only resetting to come back to, but so I'd constantly remind myself of it.
I think the second day is pretty important on the island. If the sister flower is Hyacinths and I have a Windflower/Hyacinths combination, that's pretty huge for me as I love Hyacinths and seeing them on mystery island tours might make seeing cherries everywhere more bearable. I feel like I should collect 5-6 cherry blossom recipes on day one to have a good start, then let day 2 happen and maybe have someone send me a ladder or something so that I can explore the whole island fully. While everything would get terraformed, without TT I would be stuck for a few weeks with the current layout, after all. Basically I wanna make an informed decision, maybe go on an island tour or two, and then see how it feels and I think I should do that before taking a break because otherwise I'll take a break, then check day 2 and need another break to think about everything.
I do feel time pressure, though, because of more and more events happening and requiring more and more TTing to keep up. I'm not a fan of that. Maybe always starting back in April is a mistake, but I just love the cherry blossom stuff so, so much.
Sorry to hear about your struggle with OCD, my heart goes out to you and I wish you luck with it and with your happiness and health! Let us know as a community if there is anything small we can do within this game to help make animal crossing at least a little happy place.
It sounds, at the moment, like the constant resetting is preventing the game from even having a chance at being a little happy place. In terms of accepting your island my advice would be to give it a bit of a go. As Fey said above, try as much as is possible (and I realise it may not be possible) to focus on everything else about your island apart from the fruits. Which villagers might you enjoy having? What kind of decorations might you put in your house? How might you use the custom paths to make something fun somewhere on your island? etc etc. The perfect fruit might happen and you can cross that bridge if it does, but equally it might not! Or it might return in a format where through trading you can have perfect fruits that are non-native to your island. We don't know yet. My advice, therefore, would be to give this island a go (maybe after a little break if you feel it could be of any benefit whatsoever) and see how you find it. As you said, it does sound like you're on the verge of just giving up with the game as your recent experiences have not been enjoyable or relaxing. Hopefully you can get some (or hopefully lots) of enjoyment from this island, which looks great and has lots of strengths/positives.
