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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.
At least everything but resident services can be relocated. Yeah, the bell cost sucks, but at least it can be done. And I'm gld to hear you got what you wanted!
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.
Hey I resetted New Leaf for two and a half months before I got what I wanted, but I did get the perfect map and loved my NL town. Not 4000 hours though. Not sure how many it was in total, but I did around 3-5 hours daily I think. So yeah, resetting hell already existed for me in NL as well. Glad you managed to overcome the need to reset in NH! Wish I would have had that ability, too...
I thought I wanted apples, but "settled" for a different fruit when I found an otherwise perfect island.
Then I went on a Nook's Miles Ticket mystery island tour, and the mystery island had apples! I brought them home, planted them all, and gradually substituted apple trees for the original fruit trees. Now apples are what I have on my island. Not only that, but the apples are worth more because it is a foreign fruit.
So my suggestion is to consider possibly ignoring fruit when looking for the perfect island.
EDITED TO ADD: Oh I forgot to say that I haven't reset. In fact, my perfect island was one of the original four. Not so on my second island (on my second Switch), which took forever to choose and I still don't like it as much. Oddly, I love all the animals in both towns and that surprises me. Maybe the animals' personalities have been improved since New Leaf? I don't know. But I like them.
In New Leaf I loved to reset and start the game over with a new, fresh town every couple of months or so. I suspect I will feel the same with ACNH sometime this summer so I will probably be resetting, too.
Honestly I think some of the fun of the game is in making do with the restrictions you have (which are significantly less abundant with terraforming and moving building) and problem solving around them. At least with my first play through I try to just play it out and work with what I have. I had 3 towns in New Leaf and I spent the 2nd/3rd being really specific about what I wanted while the first was more to just enjoy the game and learn about it. Unfortunately, since you can only have 1 town per switch this isn't nearly as easy to do, but for now I'd say you should just go with the flow and settle for something before you lose out on the fun of the game entirely.
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.
Oh yeah I totally get it. Also reading my response I deeply apologize because now that I read it, it sounded really condescending oops >~<
Also the reason why I haven’t thought about restarting just yet is because I’m not really done with my island just yet as my ideas are really scrambled and I’m currently just placing whatever things seem right. I think I might if it starts becoming an issue (especially since the placements of the rivers affect how much space I’ll have)
I definitely am. I really don't like the vibe of my island or the name of it since I associate it with the Hawaiian theme I was going for. I also hate my river mouths and am not fond of my peninsula, but I really don't want to have to start over. I've put in too many hours and have too many things unlocked to go back
I thought I wanted apples, but "settled" for a different fruit when I found an otherwise perfect island.
Then I went on a Nook's Miles Ticket mystery island tour, and the mystery island had apples! I brought them home, planted them all, and gradually substituted apple trees for the original fruit trees. Now apples are what I have on my island. Not only that, but the apples are worth more because it is a foreign fruit.
So my suggestion is to consider possibly ignoring fruit when looking for the perfect island.
EDITED TO ADD: Oh I forgot to say that I haven't reset. In fact, my perfect island was one of the original four. Not so on my second island (on my second Switch), which took forever to choose and I still don't like it as much. Oddly, I love all the animals in both towns and that surprises me. Maybe the animals' personalities have been improved since New Leaf? I don't know. But I like them.
In New Leaf I loved to reset and start the game over with a new, fresh town every couple of months or so. I suspect I will feel the same with ACNH sometime this summer so I will probably be resetting, too.
You're not wrong about the fruit but the thing is that the native fruit is what you will see on most of the island tours. Same with your native flower. On my first island I had peaches and Cosmos and I hate Cosmos and always thought "Well at least I have peaches!" because seeing all those Cosmos on the hundreds of island tours was jarring. Especially on hybrid island lol, the hybrid Cosmos colors suck, sadly.
And wow, you got really lucky then! Glad you love your island at least for now! Also when it comes to villagers, I find myself enjoying more of them this time, too - even the jocks - except for the lazies, I like those significantly less than in NL. No idea why.
Honestly I think some of the fun of the game is in making do with the restrictions you have (which are significantly less abundant with terraforming and moving building) and problem solving around them. At least with my first play through I try to just play it out and work with what I have. I had 3 towns in New Leaf and I spent the 2nd/3rd being really specific about what I wanted while the first was more to just enjoy the game and learn about it. Unfortunately, since you can only have 1 town per switch this isn't nearly as easy to do, but for now I'd say you should just go with the flow and settle for something before you lose out on the fun of the game entirely.
I tried that, I really did, else I wouldn't have put so many hours into my first island until I couldn't stand it anymore. If I could have just had a second island with a second catridge, I would have easily just bought another. But buying a second switch? Nope, not gonna do that, I'm not made of money, so resetting it was. Though I will admit I DID entertain the second-switch-idea for more days than it should have been feasible, given that I only bought a switch for AC in the first place...
I didn't think you sounded condescending at all! All good! And honestly I think it's great that you can make even things you hate work. What you mentioned would drive me insane (hence my need for a central airport and central resident services), so I understand you hating it and am in awe that you still enjoy the island despite not liking quite a few aspects! I think that's far more healthy than my approach.
I definitely am. I really don't like the vibe of my island or the name of it since I associate it with the Hawaiian theme I was going for. I also hate my river mouths and am not fond of my peninsula, but I really don't want to have to start over. I've put in too many hours and have too many things unlocked to go back
Honestly, if I ever get a second island and don't just stop resetting/playing, I'll TT to re-unlock my things. I feel that it's justified to get back to where I had been that way, even if I normally don't TT. For me, despite the hours, it felt like sunken cost fallacy (or whatever that's called in English, sorry, not a native speaker) and the more hours I put in the more I felt I finally needed to reset.
I only resetted for the map (specific fruit, resident service river mouths peninsula airport etc) for the first 3 hours of release. I saw someone in the forum had it and I for the life of me could not get rng on my side. I really wanted that specific map but I knew I just knew that if I keep resetting i’m never gonna be able to even play and enjoy the game at all. I had flashbacks to when I had map reset for NL. As soon as I realized this I just settled to the closest thing I could find. Mind you it’s way off from the map I wanted. In fact, my current island is much more different from the island I imagined and planned using the island designer website. But I like it and it turned much better than what I thought it would be. I’m very happy with my island. Last I check it’s only 3 star so maybe the dread and the feeling of wanting to reset has not hit me yet. I hope it doesn’t since i’ve put a ton of hours into this game. Also hoping you find your dream island and finally be able to join us terraform, villager hunt, breed flowers and trade! Your dreamies are waiting for you to join them. After you get your island, theres gonna be a lot more planning to do xD
I only resetted for the map (specific fruit, resident service river mouths peninsula airport etc) for the first 3 hours of release. I saw someone in the forum had it and I for the life of me could not get rng on my side. I really wanted that specific map but I knew I just knew that if I keep resetting i’m never gonna be able to even play and enjoy the game at all. I had flashbacks to when I had map reset for NL. As soon as I realized this I just settled to the closest thing I could find. Mind you it’s way off from the map I wanted. In fact, my current island is much more different from the island I imagined and planned using the island designer website. But I like it and it turned much better than what I thought it would be. I’m very happy with my island. Last I check it’s only 3 star so maybe the dread and the feeling of wanting to reset has not hit me yet. I hope it doesn’t since i’ve put a ton of hours into this game. Also hoping you find your dream island and finally be able to join us terraform, villager hunt, breed flowers and trade! Your dreamies are waiting for you to join them. After you get your island, theres gonna be a lot more planning to do xD
Oh I was already terraforming and all, I had most of my river removed and clogged up my south river exits and all. But no matter what I tried with the peninsula, nothing worked, not even with paths and terraforming. And I had all these dreamies - I still can't believe I got both Diana and Blance within only 25 NMTs. It was crazy and it did make me feel like fate was telling me to never reset lol. My island was also only at three stars, though, but I knew what I wanted to do and it was really good for what I had planned, too - the cliff area was really perfect! Just the peninsula messed me up and it made me realize just how important the placement of that stupid thing is to me. So I, too, hope I can find an acceptable island one day to play again. I really, really miss playing. At least a friend of mine kept a lot of my items for me so that I wouldn't start again at zero, but still... who knows if she won't keep them in the end because I never play again?
I’m sorry you had to reset, but I understand wanting the perfect map because you are going to invest many years into this island.
On the day of release, I found a map that I liked along with peaches, but it had a blue airport. I tried to convince myself this was ok, and it’s the best color to have, but I could not look past how pretty and cozy the orange airport was when I saw other islands.
I decided to reset and prepared to reset until I got the combination of my dreams. I reset a few times with New Leaf, and each time I reset, I became more detached from my towns, and I would miss out on the special homes Nintendo sent to the Happy Home Showcase, and it’s now very rare to Streetpass other players. It’s disappointing to have an empty Happy Home Showcase.
I told myself if I am going to reset, it will be only this one time. My dream island has an orange airport, peaches, a left river mouth, and the peninsula and dock on the right side. Having the peninsula and dock on the right side is important because that feels the most open (to me). After all, all my towns in New Leaf had an east side beach. Like most people, I planned to put a lighthouse on the peninsula, and I wanted it to face out to sea. I’m aware that technically either side is facing out to sea, but for me, only the east side feels this way.
I was open to any location for the secret beach, but my preference was to have it on the right side. I figured if we eventually unlock diving, I want to be able to swim to the secret beach without swimming to the middle of the island.
I felt discouraged many times, but after 88 resets, I found my dream island. Don’t give up, you’ll find yours.
i have an unfortunate bad habit of resetting games multiple times bc of small imperfections, it actually kind of ruined nl for me so i told myself i wasnt gonna reset in nh...i'm still fighting the urge even now, when i can change most things abt my island and i dont dislike the permanent fixtures of my island the biggest thing i'd consider resetting for would be the fact that my resident services isnt centered on the map (and u cant see it as u fly over )
i totally get having a list of things that u really want for ur map tho i had sooooo many things that i absolutely had to have in nl, like i said tho it did burn me out fairly quickly. i'm kind of glad different grass shapes didnt come back. there might be a few things u have to compromise on to actually get to play the game tbh
additionally w the addition of the diy recipes idk if i ever actually could go thru w resetting i'm was happy w my map at the start and then i tore the whole thing down and im still happy w it, so i guess all my resetting energy is going into intense manic terraforming lmao
I’m sorry you had to reset, but I understand wanting the perfect map because you are going to invest many years into this island.
On the day of release, I found a map that I liked along with peaches, but it had a blue airport. I tried to convince myself this was ok, and it’s the best color to have, but I could not look past how pretty and cozy the orange airport was when I saw other islands.
I decided to reset and prepared to reset until I got the combination of my dreams. I reset a few times with New Leaf, and each time I reset, I became more detached from my towns, and I would miss out on the special homes Nintendo sent to the Happy Home Showcase, and it’s now very rare to Streetpass other players. It’s disappointing to have an empty Happy Home Showcase.
I told myself if I am going to reset, it will be only this one time. My dream island has an orange airport, peaches, a left river mouth, and the peninsula and dock on the right side. Having the peninsula and dock on the right side is important because that feels the most open (to me). After all, all my towns in New Leaf had an east side beach. Like most people, I planned to put a lighthouse on the peninsula, and I wanted it to face out to sea. I’m aware that technically either side is facing out to sea, but for me, only the east side feels this way.
I was open to any location for the secret beach, but my preference was to have it on the right side. I figured if we eventually unlock diving, I want to be able to swim to the secret beach without swimming to the middle of the island.
I felt discouraged many times, but after 88 resets, I found my dream island. Don’t give up, you’ll find yours.
Thank you so much for the encouraging story! While I am long past 88 resets - I think I'm at around 400? - in this new round of resetting hell, it's always great to hear that it's possible to get what you want. And I agree with so many things, like the dock and peninsula on the right! The secret beach is the only thing that never really mattered to me, tbh, because I always thought it was kinda crummy and small and I never saw a use for it. Even with Redd in the game now, I still wouldn't ever use it aside from visiting him, so that is (thankfully) one thing I don't care about. As I care about seemingly everything else, it's a minor mercy I guess haha. And I am so happy you got the island of your dreams! It's lovely, too!
i have an unfortunate bad habit of resetting games multiple times bc of small imperfections, it actually kind of ruined nl for me so i told myself i wasnt gonna reset in nh...i'm still fighting the urge even now, when i can change most things abt my island and i dont dislike the permanent fixtures of my island the biggest thing i'd consider resetting for would be the fact that my resident services isnt centered on the map (and u cant see it as u fly over )
i totally get having a list of things that u really want for ur map tho i had sooooo many things that i absolutely had to have in nl, like i said tho it did burn me out fairly quickly. i'm kind of glad different grass shapes didnt come back. there might be a few things u have to compromise on to actually get to play the game tbh
additionally w the addition of the diy recipes idk if i ever actually could go thru w resetting i'm was happy w my map at the start and then i tore the whole thing down and im still happy w it, so i guess all my resetting energy is going into intense manic terraforming lmao
Resident Services in the middle seems to be important for many people, wow! But thankfully I feel the resetting in NH is better than it was in NL simply because the whole face feature thing got removed so it's more streamlined - to the point where I am so much in auto-mode that I need to really pay attention I don't actually mistype my name or something. And yeah, the grass shapes... I do miss the circle grass, it was one of the best things and triangles are my least favourite grass kind, but at least the grass is much less contrasting shades of green in NH. And well, on my first island I compromised on the peninsula - the ONLY thing I compromised on...and it made me so unhappy I reset. So this time I either do it right or not at all, tbh. I don't know. Only compromise would be getting my old map again (so two south river mouths) instead of a west river exit map because I loved the rest of my old map and rebuilding every single cliff on a new island seems kinda tedious and dumb.
Whenever I read these resetting threads I always think of the shiny female starter in Pokémon Sun. You see, there was someone who would regularly post in a Pokémon Sun and Moon thread about how they were burnt by the game because they'd spent three to four months resetting every day to try to get a shiny female starter.
That's right, every day they would play the first hour of the game over and over and over because they just had to have a female shiny starter and nothing else was good enough. They simply would not be able to enjoy the game unless they got their female shiny starter and this went in for months. It's not known if they ever got their shiny female starter or if they abandoned the game.
Anyway, my point is this - don't be the shiny female starter person. The payoff isn't worth it.
I put way too many hours into my island to reset.
Also, from what I have observed, resetting can turn into a vicious cycle.
I'm not 100% happy with everything about my layout but we will be getting so many updates along the way, that I decided to just take things really slow this time around. Most of my island is not even decorated and I haven't even bothered to move houses yet because I'm not sure if we will be getting more standalone buildings down the line.
I know you are right, but for me it was either stopping to play because of frustration about my island or at least trying to play again with resetting. I just resetted for two hours and didn't even get to look at fruits or airport colors because nothing fitting appeared in the map selection, but yeah... I would have stopped playing otherwise anyway. I'm not losing anything. I watch youtube videos while I reset (else I would go insane) so it's not like I just stare at the screen and as long as I'm not feeling like ragequitting, I think it's...okay. Not great, definitely not, and actually really sad because I'm missing out on events and all that, but at least it gives me a chance to play again.
I put way too many hours into my island to reset.
Also, from what I have observed, resetting can turn into a vicious cycle.
I'm not 100% happy with everything about my layout but we will be getting so many updates along the way, that I decided to just take things really slow this time around. Most of my island is not even decorated and I haven't even bothered to move houses yet because I'm not sure if we will be getting more standalone buildings down the line.
You're right with that, but I honestly doubt an update will let us ever move the river mouths or peninsula. I could see the airport color changing with an update, but never the river mouths.
I put way too many hours into my island to reset.
Also, from what I have observed, resetting can turn into a vicious cycle.
I'm not 100% happy with everything about my layout but we will be getting so many updates along the way, that I decided to just take things really slow this time around. Most of my island is not even decorated and I haven't even bothered to move houses yet because I'm not sure if we will be getting more standalone buildings down the line.
Agree on the resetting becomes a vicious cycle. That happened to me in NL and it was horrible so that’s the one thing I wouldn’t want to do in NH. Most of the time, resetting also makes you feel somewhat disconnected from your island. The attachment just isn’t there anymore.
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.
This is also why I'm not resetting. I lost interest in New Leaf specifically because, once I had spent potentially over a thousand hours, I realized a rock was in the way of the layout I had spent months working on. Yes, a rock. One solitary, stinking, stupid rock. Instead of controlling my at times crippling perfectionism, I let it dictate my enjoyment of the game. Indeed, a single, stupid rock had that much power over me.
That's not to say I still don't struggle, because I do, but I chose a map early on (also with dual south facing rivers) that I liked at the time, and I'm forcing myself to make it work.
With all of that in mind, though, I totally understand you, OP. I wish you the best of luck in finding your perfect map and I hope it doesn't take you too long!
I knew I'd end up doing this if I wasn't 100% happy with my island the first time around! I was the same in New Leaf, I'd finished every thing, perfect town, paths... but every time I ran around my town, I hated it. So I reset and I spent countless hours trying to get a very specific map layout. I came very close and just settled for it but I was never truly happy with it.
So I made sure my town layout was perfect the first time I played the game. I didn't start my game when I got it on 20th March because I was resetting for different layouts for the next week. The hype kept me doing it too since I still wanted to play.
It was so much effort but this is the happiest I've ever been with any town on any of my games ever
Ohh, I fell you. I got the game on release day with the Nintendo switch(I’m not a gamer so I bought it specifically for AC because it has always been my favourite game since I was 10 with WW. First day I was so excited that I just picked an island that seemed nice enough and rolled with it. I had oranges(how much I hate them) and also my least favourite flower as native, pansy, but I was so eager to start to play that I didn’t care. 3 weeks into this island and I hated every single bit. I hated where I placed the shops and the museum, I hated the river(it was one of those islands with super crazy and articulate rivers) and I hated my villagers. Also, I started time travel like crazy(which is something I’ve never done in AC)to try and kick out Quilsonn because I despise him and I don’t know, I went into burn out. My island was a mess, my villagers were horrible and I hated it. So I restarted and it was the best decision ever. I still had to settle for little things, like I’d love to have a blue airport(because of the cute lighthouse that you can get) but mine is yellow, but it’s okay, I can always trade. I love the layout in general but especially I enjoy my villagers so much!
I kinda wanna reset. When the game first came out, I spent the whole of the first day resetting for two south exits with peaches and a fairly centered resident services. In the end I got it, but now I feel like the things I wanna do would be easier with an East/west exit and then resident services is too close to the airport.
That said, doubt I'll do anything about it. I spent years resetting in new leaf, always chasing that one perfect map and I refuse to do it in NH as well. There would always be something small on the new island I'd feel unhappy about too and then start the process all over again
the biggest thing i'd consider resetting for would be the fact that my resident services isnt centered on the map (and u cant see it as u fly over 
)
i'm was happy w my map at the start and then i tore the whole thing down and im still happy w it, so i guess all my resetting energy is going into intense manic terraforming lmao
