Opinions please. What would you do?

[DaCoSim]

Ok so here's the deal. I would like feedback and opinions because I am very undecided.

I have had my main town since release. (Well almost since day one, because when it released we were going on vacation with a ten hour drive so I hoarded my copy and my kids' copies until we left, unopened. Yes hardest week EVER!) I luv my main town of Birdsong. There are a few things I wish I could chNge. My tent and coffee shop placement for sure. And one very unfortunate rock. But other than that I truly luv my main town.

It's 100% complete in catalog, museum and my houses are exactly the way I want them. I also have all my dreamiest and had them exactly where I wanted them. We'll sort of. Here's the problem with that. A few months ago stitchface went into unexpected boxes. Ughhhhhh. So I moved him to another town, along with 3 others so I could carefully cycle to 20 to bring them all back. Nightmare of course! But I'm patient. I finally start moving everyone back in and have one more to kick before static can come home. I get a move date for static and start working on pippy. Francine goes into boxes. WAY TOO early. I write my dates down. It really shouldn't have happened.

I now have my main frozen in time with her in boxes and barely kept from throwing my 3ds across the room. I'm 35 and should be an adult. Lol! So I'm undecided as to what I want to do. I reset my extra town and went map rolling. (I have 3 towns). I had to do this since all my babies except static were on vacay in this town. I found a perfect map. I mean PERFECT!!! Great building placement, Cherry trees, only 2 ponds, only a couple of unfortunate rocks, and a decent beach. It has a perfect area for my 3 houses and an even better area to have all 10 villagers all lined up in a row. (I'm VERY ocd about placement.)

So I'm trying to decide whether to really develop the town and make it my main, and eventually transfer everything from my main to it and just keep my main town as a storage town because I refuse to reset it. It literally has everything that is unorderable in it including all the villager pics, mini models and gyroids. I have everything sorted into lockers and saved mail with it a written down so I know what's where.

Here are a couple of pics of my main map and the new map. The new map has added stuff to it where I want to put the nonremovables and villagers.

Also if you'd like to visit my da, please do. My finished town is saved.

Spoiler: Main map

Spoiler: New map

 

[Chipped-Teacup]

Well you've clearly worked hard on Birdsong, soooo what I'd do is not transfer villagers, but rather get duplicates of the same ones in your new town, transfer Francine through that, and that way you still have two towns you like and it won't matter if you abandon Birdsing too much (but you won't need to reset) . Does that work with what you want?

 

[DaCoSim]

Not sure I really want duplicate villagers except maybe Filbert though.

 

[Voluptua Sneezelips]

Do you only want to have one main town to maintain and just muck around in the other towns/not bother developing them? I wasn't sure if this is part of what's keeping you undecided.

Since Birdsong is pretty much complete, could you move Francine over to your new town and perhaps go into maintenance mode on Birdsong (i.e., visit villagers, weeding, etc.) and cycle through until you can get Francine back into Birdsong? In the meantime, you could focus on building up your new town (which you sound pretty excited about!) and get yourself another set of villagers to play with.

Ultimately, I think Birdsong should remain your main, given how much work you've put into it, but developing/landscaping another new town could be a nice challenge. I got a second copy of the game so I could cycle/TT, etc., but dangit...I started to actually feel attached to the villagers and now my secondary town is developing away as its own separate place. It's not *quite* as special to me as my main and I feel a bit more casual about it, but it's definitely up there in terms of importance. Would something similar work for you?

 

[Geoni]

The tough thing about maintaining a main that's as perfect and complete as yours (aside from villager troubles and a pwp placement you don't like) is that you have to check every three or so days so you don't get surprise moves - if you're fine with doing that and using it as storage so you don't have to reset, why not?

I say see where the secondary goes in terms of villagers who move in upon accidental moveouts or cycling - cycling will make things a little messy but that can be cleaned up later if you like where all the permanent stuff is. Sounds like you're on the right track. But I have to say, why not two mains? It would take a ton of work to get duplicate villagers but if you really like the secondary it might end up being worth the effort.

Having a third town to accelerate cycling would be helpful but a new game costs more money.

 

[DaCoSim]

I actually have 3 towns. I DO luv my main town as I've put so much work into completing it and I do play every single day. (Though I have it frozen on Francine's move date atm until I make a couple of decisions.) when stitches went into boxes I was playing everyday and talking to my villagers but as we all know, sometimes they just don't ping. He's what started this whole mess. I then kicked out 3 more, and very carefully cycled to 20 to move them back in. I hAve cycled before and use the 2 days fwd, 2 days back method, with the occasional create a new character and Tt up a month if I don't get a ping pretty quick.

I think what I'm going to do for now is keep my main frozen while I develop this new town some. I have 2 3ds's and the dates always written down. Then I can move Francine and static into the new town and go from there. That will help me decide whether to put my top 10 permanently in the new town.

 

[Vizionari]

I personally think you should still have Birdsong as your main town, and just continue cycling. I've never lost a villager yet, but my main town has all 10 dream villagers, so I understand the frustration. Plus you have a lot of items and unorderables, and developed the town a lot, and it's pretty clear you love it.

Btw, love your signature!!

 

[SeraphicOrder]

I have one of your villager... Marina I guess... she still sings about Birdsong BTW.

 

[box3d]

When you cycle villagers don't load up your mayor first
You can get better results and a lot safer if you...

1. TT forward a couple weeks (DS settings) then start new file to see who moved, quit.
2. TT back to previous date and convince them to stay with mayor.
3. TT forward a few days to trigger new move, load up mayor. Quit.
4. Repeat steps 1-3.

Unless of course you have 4 characters already although I imagine you don't. It seems like when you have 10 villagers they move more often and less reliably so I always take caution before loading up my mayor. So many people go forward a couple days at a time with the mayor and wait for pings but they are easily missed. Especially when you have the cafe and more main street shops plus 10 villagers.

 

[DaCoSim]

I have one of your villager... Marina I guess... she still sings about Birdsong BTW.

Ha!!!! I wonder if she's singing walls of Jericho or the theme from bubble bobble. Ha. That's funny!! Yep, she was in the 20 I cycled to get everyone back in. I brought her to main from my other town!