Opinion on plot resetting?

[Jaffacakemunchr]

Recently I restarted my town again and at first I was really going to make a perfect town and plot reset etc but it is a lot of effort and sometimes it's just nicer to let it all happen naturally and work round them! But I'm still torn. Not sure what to do as it does require a lot of effort.

 

[Foxxie]

My town is the first I ever had, so at the beginning it grew very organically... I had never heard of TBT and tiers and plot resetting and even using paths etc... so houses went wherever, people moved in and out...

By the time I found this forum and learned just how much you could do with the game (including plot resetting) it has helped my game so much... My town is now developed to the point where it actually makes me shudder to think about a villager randomly plotting over my paths or hybrids

I guess the point I am trying to make is that I think plot resetting is pretty vital later in game, unless you don't mind changing your town design around new plots... but early on in game (before you have many PWPs to help) it is probably too difficult to be worthwhile...

 

[Romaki]

I plot resetted so much and became so obsessed with having the one perfect town that I was never happy with my town.
Sure, plot resetting can help you planning, but I think the game should have given us more options: choose house places, or houses can't be build on designs/paths. One simple thing that would make resetting unnecessary.

 

[tae]

i've spent too many days plot resetting and i hate it, but i prefer it over letting them move in all over the place because 100% of the time they plot horribly and ruin everything you love. and in a town thats incredibly developed, a random move in is your worst nightmare.

 

[Anine]

I plot resetted so much and became so obsessed with having the one perfect town that I was never happy with my town.
Sure, plot resetting can help you planning, but I think the game should have given us more options: choose house places, or houses can't be build on designs/paths. One simple thing that would make resetting unnecessary.

Pretty much this, if houses wouldn't fall on paths I honestly wouldn't have minded that they're random. Or choosing where they are, but I somewhat like the random factor.

At the same time I reset my town so I could get the perfect town, so I don't know. At the moment it's a bit of a necessary evil to me, cos there as some places where I just don't want villagers popping up.

 

[Belle of Pripyat]

I don't plot reset, but I also don't use paths...and I'm lazy. LOL. If you have the time and patience to do it, go for it.

 

[Mothership]

I don't like having to plot reset, but I also don't want to have my bridges, ramps or other buildings blocked off by poorly placed houses. I also don't want a villager to plot in places I plan to use for something else like the Cafe.

So...I usually plot reset an incoming villager, but only til they land somewhere tolerable. I never try to get them in an exact spot because that requires way more patience than I have for that.

 

[fenris]

I don't like having to plot reset, but I also don't want to have my bridges, ramps or other buildings blocked off by poorly placed houses. I also don't want a villager to plot in places I plan to use for something else like the Cafe.

So...I usually plot reset an incoming villager, but only til they land somewhere tolerable. I never try to get them in an exact spot because that requires way more patience than I have for that.

This is pretty much how I do it. I'm kind of going a little bit nuts right now because Freckles (one of my starters) plotted her pink feathery butt right outside town hall.

 

[visibleghost]

it takes so much timeee. i dont think you should go for perfect, just plot reset until the villager isn't destroying anything or isn't in the way of other stuff...

 

[HopeForHyrule]

I never used to plot reset, mainly because I didn't know about it, but it has come to help me so much.

Major props to those people who can reset for days and weeks to get a villager in absolute perfect alignment with the others...I don't have anything even remotely close to the amount of patience THAT takes.

 

[Barbara]

I haven't plot reset in my current town (created in July 2015) yet, but now that I am starting to work on my town more I am considering to casually plot reset to make sure that first of all, they don't plot on a path/inconvenient place, and secondly to have them in such a place that it won't bring with a lot of land I can't do anything with.
I never have and never will try to plot reset my villagers into a certain location (area is another story), since you take so many time to achieve so little. I cringe when I see villagers plotted in a straight line, square or just anything that obviously took a lot of time. I don't think the game is fun anymore when you want your town to be so organised, you lose so many time doing the plot resetting that you could use to just enjoy the game. Plot resetting to avoid certain places is okay, and even to get your villager in a certain area, but please don't fix a place for them where they should live. It will take away the fun of the game and it looks so fake and unnatural when houses are plotted like that.

 

[ZetaFunction]

So far, I haven't plot reset once. And I don't plan on it in the future; if a villager moves in a horrible spot, I'll just wait till they move out. I personally prefer a natural town, where everything just is, and only as a whole is it customized. I've heard of so many painful plot reset stories where villagers never cooperate, and people spend weeks doing it, but on the other side I've seen some really nice towns made with plot resetting. So if you're willing to spend all the time trying to get them to cooperate, it definitely looks like it's worth it. Otherwise, just let them plop where ever and build your town around them.

 

[PrincessAurora]

I've plot reset 8/10 of my villagers in Daybreak and I'm very glad that I did it. I don't have ridiculously high standards for where the houses are placed (I just like them to be along my paths) so I haven't spent the amount of time that some people spend on it.

Still though, I spent several hours on each house and I wanted to die every time I did it. Worth it? Totally. I'll never look at a house in my town with hatred again like I did in my first ACNL town.

 

[GalacticGhost]

I've never had many problems with it. of course, i didn't start doing it until i started my second town, and even then i've just been doing it to make sure that none of my dreamies move in, or a villager plots their house where i have paths. i'm sure it'll get a lot harder once i decide where my dreamies are going to go...

 

[Crash]

i plot reset, but I'm not extremely picky about where the villager plots as long as it isn't too close to any building/my house. I wouldn't bother with it if I hadn't had so many bad experiences with letting villagers plot wherever; that was one of the reasons I reset my first town.​

 

[Orieii]

Plot resetting is your friend In the long run, it'll all be worth it

 

[xkittyy]

If I were to reset my town or maybe in the next AC game I'd probably just get all of my dreamies before doing anything with my town. That way I won't care where they place their house or will even bother with plot resetting. The only reason I do it is so they don't place their houses on top of paths/hybrids and ruin the design of my town.

 

[Spooky.]

I only hardcore plot reset in one town, in my others I'm more casual about it. I still do, but it's mostly just to stop a villager from crushing my trees/bushes/hybrids/etc. I will say, once I'm done with my final cat villager in my second town (the one I hardcore reset in), I am NEVER spending so much time resetting again. Villagers lined up looks nice but the effort takes away from the game and makes it less enjoyable.

 

[Aali]

I tried to plot reset once and it didn't work


So I'm too stupid to plot reset

 

[Spooky.]

I tried to plot reset once and it didn't work


So I'm too stupid to plot reset

It's really simple when you get the hang of it.

The day you know (or think) a villager is going to move in, do a 'new save file' and do NOT load your mayor at ALL. Once you're done talking to Rover and get into your town, instead of going to see Isabelle, run around and look for the plot. If you like where it is, go to Isabelle, get your tent from Tom Nook, and then go back to Isabelle so you can save.

If you don't like where it is, turn off the game and do it again.

Once you do it enough times you dont even have to look at the screen other than to type a name (which for me is usually just a single letter) and when you get to your town to reset. I usually just put my DS down and hit the A button repeatedly with one hand while browsing online with the other.