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I am a re-starter and have restarted probably dozens of times. I never restart right away; usually it is after I have had the town for a while, after my house is fully expanded. But, only once have I continued until getting the Gracie Grace store (OK, the "T&T Emporium").
I restarted this week because I had the "Christmas blues" and it always cheers me up to restart a town that I have had a while. Honestly I would get so bored if I had kept the same town all this time - - I'd probably play less than a half hour a day, if that.
Restarting is a painful, painful process for me, and in the last couple years, I've only done it twice.
The first time was to get rid of the horrifying mess that my first-ever town turned into (there are no words for how shameful it was). The second was this September, when I broke my original 3DS, and the digital save data could not be transferred to the new system. So, unintentionally.
That town was 300+ hours old, and let me tell you, losing it was horrible. I have no idea how people erase towns on such a regular basis.
I've only now gotten over the loss of Fishbowl enough to restart my file - I'm going to do a one-year-challenge, I think. Sticking with one nice town is my preferred play style, but I respect those who have the strength to start over and over.
I love to reset my towns just because I get really bored with towns and dissatisfied with my layout, etc. It gives me the chance to design a new town, and sometimes the planning of a town is more exciting for me than actually creating it and landscaping. It makes me a lot less attached to my villagers, though, as does cycling, even if I'm not doing it in one specific town.
I've restarted twice. I just restarted last night actually because I was getting sick of my town. I loved my villagers but the map was annoying me too much and I avoided the game.
I think that restarting, similar to time traveling, is something that the game allows you to do, and thus people should play however makes them happy c: if you don't want to restart, don't, if you do, then do it to your heart's content. It does make it easier if you have two cartridges, but if you don't have that luxury then do whatever you want to do c: after all, it's YOUR game c:
I restarted several times with my second copy, but only in the beginning, to try to get better starter villagers, since it was supposed to be my dream town. I don't know that I could do a proper restart. I know I can't in my dream town unless some disaster happens and I lose Marshal (he's special to me because I accidentally got him from my wife when she messed up TT-ing and he moved, so every time she visits, he remembers her). I've wanted to in my original town, but I've got so much playing time racked up and almost everything unlocked and done... I'd be more likely to encourage everyone to move probably, if I want to shake things up.
I restarted once and it was the best decision I've made. My old map was tough to work with and I put my house, campsite, cafe, and police station at awful spots. I also couldn't fish near my waterfall because of the layout. Because I was only 2 months in, I chose to restart for a better map.
I just say restart if it'll make you happy in the end. If you're going to be stuck with a town, you might as well be happy with it.
I've restarted once: I had a really long break where I stopped playing for ages and then decided to play again. I was really unhappy with my then-current town.
So I've restarted, and I like to fix this mindset where I pretend it's my first time playing through into place. I don't know, it saves me from suffering through the long, perilous journey to unlock everything. I take my time and I have more motivation to do everything again.
I'm resetting my cycle town on the 1st ^_^
I think many people end up falling into the resetting-addiction and can't stop
I'm really going to try not to but often I start getting picky about little things and then I hate the town
I've reset my town twice now - once fairly soon after I got the game and had read more about town layouts and started to pick dreamies, etc; the second time was just a week or two ago since I felt like the other town had run its course and was complete. So far the only thing I'm having trouble with is obtaining dreamies for this town (separate list of villagers from my old town, which still as a dream address so I can visit) but I think that's because so many New Leaf players have dropped it in favor of Happy Home Designer. Or maybe cycling and trading are just slower because of the holidays, who knows. Aside from that, everything's gone very smoothly and I would say it's been 100% worth it for me personally. Starting fresh is nice
