Thanks a lot, Mira.

[HopeForHyrule]

After my failed attempt at perfect town status, I decided that I love Bunifrey the way it is, and am slowly demolishing all of the PWPs I built.

So what happens today? Mira pings to suggest the picnic blanket PWP, which just so happens to be my favorite.

I just got so caught up in landscaping my town and making it pretty that I didn't bother to wait for any more PWP suggestions.

Granted, I've scoped out a potential spot to place it, so I can still make it work. I hope. But I'm going to wait until she suggests the ever-elusive Wisteria Trellis as I think that'll look good with the overwhelming forest-y vibe I have going on.

Anyone else get impatient and just start landscaping, only to later realize you jumped the gun, so to speak?

 

[Miii]

Yep! I actually didn't bother looking at the wisteria trellis until like 2 months after one of my villagers suggested it. I landscaped the area next to my house, but was never really happy with it. Saw the wisteria trellis finally and built 4 next to my house with a pretty pathway and flowers between them. I also jumped the gun destroying a pwp right behind my house for landscaping purposes and ended up having a villager move in 2 days later :T he's litterally 2 spaces behind my house

 

[Knopekin]

Yeah, I laid down a path pattern that's two (or more) wide, which makes the wisteria trellis kind of awkward, because only one panel can go directly under it. So I've got a couple of cumbersome 3-wide paths to accommodate them.

I could swap my path, but I love it so much :<

 

[Meliara]

I have wasted soooo much money demolishing and rebuilding pwps it's sad. In fact, I realized two of my mayors had less than 10,000 bells yesterday because of it. It's often an issue of having to take down pwps to place plot blockers when I'm trading out villagers in a town.

Edit: And yes, I've placed tons of bushes before only to get a pwp request I couldn't resist and had to just dig 'em up. =(

 

[Shimmer]

I have become so accustomed to resorting to plan B because of things that happen in your town that you cannot control. That is why I don't even try to control it so much. I just want all the PWP's (or at least all the ones I care about) and my ten dreamies. Other than that, the town can grow at its own pace.

I believe that if I try to control my town through plot resetting or anything similar, I'll ruin the game for me and cause myself discomfort and stress. I don't want that. That is not why I play Animal Crossing. Some people like doing that and planning everything and that's okay too. But if it causes you hassle and stress, I say it's not worth it.

 

[mayortash]

Honestly no. I just landscape as I see fit for that point in time. I don't plot reset so I am very well aware with how my villagers will plot (and they tend to only plot in certain areas now anyways with how my PWPs have been placed). I think the only time I waited for someone to move out before I built a PWP was when Winnie moved out I built the bus stop where her house used to be.

 

[rass]

I always wait for them to suggest the public works project I need, like Whitney still won't suggest the hot spring I need. -.- At least I got my picnic blanket which is one of my favorite public works projects. I feel like Whitney will never suggest the hot spring.

 

[HungryForCereal]

i wasted a lot of bells trying to build, tear down, rebuild and tear down the wooden brick bridge untill wolfgang suggested the zen bridge.

 

[Lumira]

My town is about half landscaped. I'm waiting until I get all my dreamies moved in before I get too serious about all the landscaping and PWPs. Plus, I'm still waiting on the suggestion of some PWPs, such as the flower arch.

 

[Chrystina]

so glad I'm not the only one who does this.

I have wasted soooo much money demolishing and rebuilding pwps it's sad. In fact, I realized two of my mayors had less than 10,000 bells yesterday because of it. It's often an issue of having to take down pwps to place plot blockers when I'm trading out villagers in a town.

Edit: And yes, I've placed tons of bushes before only to get a pwp request I couldn't resist and had to just dig 'em up. =(

especially this... to think of all the bush starts I've wasted is depressing. and all of the random dirt patches from demolished pwps sigh.

 

[radioloves]

Ohh, I just left my game on for awhile and did other things in my town and then talked to villagers with the !?!?^*^&$^ icons and stuff and yeah I think you can get one once a day maybe?

 

[N e s s]

Personally i never used the Wisteria Trellis in the middle of my path, i always put it in a corner and filled it with Violets to make a pretty sanctuary type of deal, its really pretty if you dedicate to that idea

 

[Romaki]

Waiting for the PWPs you like gets kinda boring. But building the ones you don't like only to replace them later is a waste of bells.

 

[Wildroses]

I'm a little disappointed the thread was about landscaping as the title so perfectly sums up my mood. The only item I still needed for my catalogue was the bronze fishing trophy. Mira got third place over me by 0.25 inches. Thanks a lot, Mira!

I suppose I ought to talk about landscaping though so I am not completely off topic. In a way I'm the opposite. I haven't landscaped much as I was more interested in completing my collections of stuff. I'm taking a fairly slow, deliberately random approach. I basically plonk down a PWP which catches my eye anywhere it will fit. I do have ideas about what to do with flowers, which I am about one third done, but haven't made a serious push.

I think it is basically hanging around this forum. I see a lot of people here working themselves into frenzies trying to create their vision of a town, spending hours plot resetting, making patterns and agonising over decisions so much they create poll after poll after poll as they just can't decide for themselves, and I don't want to play like that because it doesn't sound like fun. So I'm just making a completely random town with no paths instead. As I enjoy the collecting and relationship building aspects of the game more than landscaping, this is working for me.