I’m not satisfied with my island

[Cetoddle769]

If you want to see my boring island, see the thread ‘My Island Dream Address’

I feel like I need to do some major renovations to my island design. From the amazing photos I’ve seen online, it makes me feel jealous and that my island is basic. Whenever people come to visit my island, they always say it’s amazing. Personally, I don’t see it that way. Should I change my island? I kind of want to but also don’t as it would take weeks and lots of bells to do so. I feel really envious of people’s islands that look amazing. My island is also stuck at a 4 star rating, and no matter what I do that stupid dumb Isabelle refuses to give me 5 stars. I feel like changing my island would help.

 

[Tsukuri_Yukimura]

I understand that looking at other people’s islands makes it soo easy to be jealous but it’s ok. I take ideas from others and try to incorporate them on my own island.

Also other people are not you. Other people have different ideas than you do and that’s ok. What matters is that you play and design the island the way you want and like.

If changing or resetting helps you then I would go for it.

 

[Cetoddle769]

I understand that looking at other people’s islands makes it soo easy to be jealous but it’s ok. I take ideas from others and try to incorporate them on my own island.

Also other people are not you. Other people have different ideas than you do and that’s ok. What matters is that you play and design the island the way you want and like.

If changing or resetting helps you then I would go for it.

I don’t want to reset my island as I’ve had it since August 2023 and getting all of my villagers back would be a pain. I do have a second less developed island on my big Nintendo Switch. I rarely play on that account but in the past I’ve been trying to get that island to 3 stars so I can unlock terraforming. I even placed all of my buildings on the beach so I can make the island like the ones online. What’s funny about the villagers I have on my island is that three of them live on my main island.

Lyman: On my main island, I had him move in via amiibo card. On my second island, he was my starter jock.

Ozzie: My personal favorite villager. On both of my islands, he was the lazy that I got for the island development quest. I found him both times on a mystery tour. For my first island, he showed up the second time cuz I found Marcel first but I thought he was creepy so I rejected him. On my second island, Ozzie was the first lazy to show up. It felt like it was fate and that Ozzie is following me to every Animal Crossing game.

Curt: On both islands, he was the first cranky to show up at the campsite. I think he’s gonna end up following me like Ozzie.

 

[Cetoddle769]

Update:

I’m completely redoing my upper cliff area of my island. I saved a lot of images of amazing builds online and using those for inspiration. It’ll take around two weeks, but It’ll be worth it.

 

[Cynthia100]

You can come visit my Isla d and see what you think if you do online play. My island is Woods island. Cynthia

 

[Cetoddle769]

Made a lot of progress on my island. The other day, I finished a castle build that took me two whole hours. It would’ve gotten done faster but my villagers kept starting conversations with each other, and of course I had to butt in. Whenever I’m busy, my villagers always ask me to come over to their house or visit mine. They also seem to always start conversations whenever they wave to each other. But when I’m bored and have nothing to do, my villagers are like nah let’s go do boring things. It feels like a curse. During the castle build, there were two conversations happening at once. What are the odds of that? I imagine very slim.

Anyway, when I update my dream address in May, you’ll see the vast amount of differences of builds on my island. I’d say I’m about 75% done. Just gotta get a few more items. The hardest part was cleaning up old pathways and terraforming. Putting away my items in storage and organizing my flowers was also a pain.

Ok. I’m done. Gonna go finish my 7-11 build.