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The one year challenge

Awesome towns guys! I haven't had much time to update in this thread, but I've been playing!
Here are the updates for the first few days in Lunami -



Day 2 - January 02, 2015

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Had a visit from Gulliver on the beach

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Isabelle gave Lilou oranges

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Watched the Northern Lights ^_^


Day 3 - January 03, 2015

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Lunami's first new villager is Flora!

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After all of her hard work, Lilou got 100% approval rating for the town!


Day 4 - January 04, 2015

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Ugh, Julian you couldn't have picked a worse spot!

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Lilou enacted the "Keep Lunami Beautiful" ordinance.


Day 5 - January 05, 2016

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Flattery won't change my annoyance with you and your awful house placement Julian!!!
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I've been running errands all morning so I'll post an update a little later.

minnew said:
Awesome towns guys! I haven't had much time to update in this thread, but I've been playing!
Here are the updates for the first few days in Lunami -



Day 2 - January 02, 2015

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Had a visit from Gulliver on the beach

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Isabelle gave Lilou oranges

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Watched the Northern Lights ^_^


Day 3 - January 03, 2015

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Lunami's first new villager is Flora!

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After all of her hard work, Lilou got 100% approval rating for the town!


Day 4 - January 04, 2015

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Ugh, Julian you couldn't have picked a worse spot!

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Lilou enacted the "Keep Lunami Beautiful" ordinance.


Day 5 - January 05, 2016

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Flattery won't change my annoyance with you and your awful house placement Julian!!!
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If worst comes to worst you can pawn off Julian on one of the 5 million pastel kawaii uguu towns and make a boatload of $$
 
Hello thread people. I started my town on the 1st and have been looking here even since, and just decided to post today. Never been a time traveller or resetter so shouldn't be too hard.

So far it's been good :] happy with the layout and everything

Also chuffed with my starting villagers - Roscoe, Pinky, Goldie, Bob, and Antonio (like Bob especially), having never had any of them before.
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Also, Fuchsia and Pancetti moved in (don't really like either haha), and O'Hare is moving tomorrow.

Extra stuff- oranges, blue town hall, red train station, star snow

(I'll maybe post my map soon)

Good luck to the rest of you :]]]
 
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o ya town info:
- star snow/circle grass (yas)
- brown town hall/train statsion (YAS)

i scored sweet l00t for my tent/house:
- red common bed
- wooden stool (fun fact: never in all my towns have i found this item)
- free lantern

ill post stuff in my blog tree i guess
mayb ill start a fc2 blog instead
O MAN I JUST REMEMBERED MY GAME DEV BLOG
 
I still propose we make some kind of blog to post our experiences and maybe get the word of the challenge out for interested folk. We'd all have to be able to post somehow but otherwise, shouldn't be too difficult. :eek:

I've gotten my permit from Isabelle and I can finally begin crafting my town into a little lovely place to settle down into. I haven't started a PWP or changed ordinances because I've got plenty to pay Nook the 39k and I need to do that first.
 
Ahri said:
Wish I saw this sooner...
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infern1300 said:
I missed this on the first as I only got back into AC today... would've loved to have done this though! Good luck to everyone!
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Guys guys guysss! Please join us if you fancy it, don't feel left out! We're only 6 days in, nothing major has happened yet, so you won't be far behind. And even if you're starting outside of the 'official' date on the challenge, you can still do a whole year, and we can celebrate your one year anniversary on your founding date :) So if you do decide to join in, post up your deets, we'd love to hear about your new towns ^_^

Having so much fun reading through everyone's town news!! Has anyone else got a new plot today? I'll share mine in my update! I'm so glad we're all enjoying this experience :D Personally, I'm loving that I can switch my game off and not get obsessive about getting everything done right away, it's such a relief.

I was at work today, so I checked in briefly at lunch time to see who my 8th villager would be. I searched but couldn't find a plot, and as I was walking up the skinny bit of land that leads up to my (future) summer camp forest, there was a plot right there...it's Lobo! I'm really pleased, I think he's fab, one of my fave crankies, and I haven't had him in a town since Summer 2013 (he was a starter in Cinnabar!).
That strip of land he has plotted in, I had no real clue what to do with, and I figured I'd plant a few lines of trees to fill it up. I'd never thought it might be a good place for villager houses, but actually it seems pretty okay, or at least it doesn't get in the way of any future plans. I've been very lucky with my random villager plots so far!

I also set up my third bridge project, and am going to beetle hunt soon to pay it off. I also got my first PWP request today - Jambette asked for a lighthouse! I was pleased, it's one of my faves, although not sure where I'll build it yet. All in all, I didn't play for long so far, but it's been a good day in town! ^_^
 
Trickilicky said:
Guys guys guysss! Please join us if you fancy it, don't feel left out! We're only 6 days in, nothing major has happened yet, so you won't be far behind. And even if you're starting outside of the 'official' date on the challenge, you can still do a whole year, and we can celebrate your one year anniversary on your founding date :) So if you do decide to join in, post up your deets, we'd love to hear about your new towns ^_^

Having so much fun reading through everyone's town news!! Has anyone else got a new plot today? I'll share mine in my update! I'm so glad we're all enjoying this experience :D Personally, I'm loving that I can switch my game off and not get obsessive about getting everything done right away, it's such a relief.

I was at work today, so I checked in briefly at lunch time to see who my 8th villager would be. I searched but couldn't find a plot, and as I was walking up the skinny bit of land that leads up to my (future) summer camp forest, there was a plot right there...it's Lobo! I'm really pleased, I think he's fab, one of my fave crankies, and I haven't had him in a town since Summer 2013 (he was a starter in Cinnabar!).
That strip of land he has plotted in, I had no real clue what to do with, and I figured I'd plant a few lines of trees to fill it up. I'd never thought it might be a good place for villager houses, but actually it seems pretty okay, or at least it doesn't get in the way of any future plans. I've been very lucky with my random villager plots so far!

I also set up my third bridge project, and am going to beetle hunt soon to pay it off. I also got my first PWP request today - Jambette asked for a lighthouse! I was pleased, it's one of my faves, although not sure where I'll build it yet. All in all, I didn't play for long so far, but it's been a good day in town! ^_^
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Congratulations on Lobo! He shares my birthday ;)

But even if it isn't January 1st, you can still join! As Trick said, I doubt many of us have progressed very far in the game so it isn't too late! You can either just start today or if you don't mind a little TTing, TT to the first and start your town, then just TT day by day until the 6th.
 
Kippla said:
I still propose we make some kind of blog to post our experiences and maybe get the word of the challenge out for interested folk. We'd all have to be able to post somehow but otherwise, shouldn't be too difficult. :eek:

I've gotten my permit from Isabelle and I can finally begin crafting my town into a little lovely place to settle down into. I haven't started a PWP or changed ordinances because I've got plenty to pay Nook the 39k and I need to do that first.
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Kippla said:
Congratulations on Lobo! He shares my birthday ;)

But even if it isn't January 1st, you can still join! As Trick said, I doubt many of us have progressed very far in the game so it isn't too late! You can either just start today or if you don't mind a little TTing, TT to the first and start your town, then just TT day by day until the 6th.
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Thanks for the congrats! Aww you got Lobo as a birthday buddy, that's awesome :D Have fun working on Fresh once you've crossed Nook's palm with gold! It all starts to get serious once that 39k is paid off, lol.

Blogs are a great idea, and I know there are a few Tumblr people here, if perhaps we could make some kind of master post with the addresses. Everyone with a OYC Tumblr can use the same tags to keep in touch (I think pumpkins made one). I don't actually have a Tumblr yet, I'll look into it at the weekend when I have more time. But I'll bookmark the pages of others so I can see what's happening :)
 
Trickilicky said:
Thanks for the congrats! Aww you got Lobo as a birthday buddy, that's awesome :D Have fun working on Fresh once you've crossed Nook's palm with gold! It all starts to get serious once that 39k is paid off, lol.

Blogs are a great idea, and I know there are a few Tumblr people here, if perhaps we could make some kind of master post with the addresses. Everyone with a OYC Tumblr can use the same tags to keep in touch (I think pumpkins made one). I don't actually have a Tumblr yet, I'll look into it at the weekend when I have more time. But I'll bookmark the pages of others so I can see what's happening :)
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Oh this is a great idea! That way we can post at our own leisure, and besides. Who doesn't need help at finding a good theme on Tumblr?
 
Trickilicky said:
Guys guys guysss! Please join us if you fancy it, don't feel left out! We're only 6 days in, nothing major has happened yet, so you won't be far behind. And even if you're starting outside of the 'official' date on the challenge, you can still do a whole year, and we can celebrate your one year anniversary on your founding date :) So if you do decide to join in, post up your deets, we'd love to hear about your new towns ^_^

Having so much fun reading through everyone's town news!! Has anyone else got a new plot today? I'll share mine in my update! I'm so glad we're all enjoying this experience :D Personally, I'm loving that I can switch my game off and not get obsessive about getting everything done right away, it's such a relief.

I was at work today, so I checked in briefly at lunch time to see who my 8th villager would be. I searched but couldn't find a plot, and as I was walking up the skinny bit of land that leads up to my (future) summer camp forest, there was a plot right there...it's Lobo! I'm really pleased, I think he's fab, one of my fave crankies, and I haven't had him in a town since Summer 2013 (he was a starter in Cinnabar!).
That strip of land he has plotted in, I had no real clue what to do with, and I figured I'd plant a few lines of trees to fill it up. I'd never thought it might be a good place for villager houses, but actually it seems pretty okay, or at least it doesn't get in the way of any future plans. I've been very lucky with my random villager plots so far!

I also set up my third bridge project, and am going to beetle hunt soon to pay it off. I also got my first PWP request today - Jambette asked for a lighthouse! I was pleased, it's one of my faves, although not sure where I'll build it yet. All in all, I didn't play for long so far, but it's been a good day in town! ^_^
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I too love reading through everyone's town news. So interesting to see what recently happened. That's pretty nice to get Lobo. He's not my favorite but its cool you got him.

I just realized that Termina is a location in Majora's Mask! I don't even like Zelda but whatever. Still a nice name to have. :)

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Klaus is moving in Termina today, its close to the town hall but its not THAT close to it

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I just finished the Suspension Bridge today, and no. I'm not going to demolish the starting bridge just because Cole is 4 spaces next to it.

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It looks like the fruit I planted from other towns is starting to grow.

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Whoa! That's a lot of Hermit Crabs! And hey, there's an Elephant Beetle right there.

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The Garden Shop will be in Termina soon!

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Strange, those eyes and a Team Nintendo Tee... I'm cosplaying him to be the villager from Mario Kart 8. I just need the light brown bedhead hair, green eyes, tan dogtooth pants and basketball shoes. Why wait until May to play as him when I can as soon as possible?

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Trickilicky said:
Guys guys guysss! Please join us if you fancy it, don't feel left out! We're only 6 days in, nothing major has happened yet, so you won't be far behind. And even if you're starting outside of the 'official' date on the challenge, you can still do a whole year, and we can celebrate your one year anniversary on your founding date :) So if you do decide to join in, post up your deets, we'd love to hear about your new towns ^_^

Having so much fun reading through everyone's town news!! Has anyone else got a new plot today? I'll share mine in my update! I'm so glad we're all enjoying this experience :D Personally, I'm loving that I can switch my game off and not get obsessive about getting everything done right away, it's such a relief.

I was at work today, so I checked in briefly at lunch time to see who my 8th villager would be. I searched but couldn't find a plot, and as I was walking up the skinny bit of land that leads up to my (future) summer camp forest, there was a plot right there...it's Lobo! I'm really pleased, I think he's fab, one of my fave crankies, and I haven't had him in a town since Summer 2013 (he was a starter in Cinnabar!).
That strip of land he has plotted in, I had no real clue what to do with, and I figured I'd plant a few lines of trees to fill it up. I'd never thought it might be a good place for villager houses, but actually it seems pretty okay, or at least it doesn't get in the way of any future plans. I've been very lucky with my random villager plots so far!

I also set up my third bridge project, and am going to beetle hunt soon to pay it off. I also got my first PWP request today - Jambette asked for a lighthouse! I was pleased, it's one of my faves, although not sure where I'll build it yet. All in all, I didn't play for long so far, but it's been a good day in town! ^_^
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I shall restart tomorrow then! am going to give a few items to a friend. ones that have memories behind them.
 
Kippla said:
I made my little blog with the organicallycrossing URL!
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Just followed you!

I also love reading everyone's updates, I've totally been checking back to this thread numerous times throughout the last few days. We should definitely organise a masterpost of everyone taking part and their blogs (if they have them!) beside their names.

At the moment I'm planning on doing small updates on this thread and longer weekly updates with pictures etc on my blog. I'll probably post random screenshots of town there too when more things start to happen. But yeah I've been using pumpkin's organicallycrossing tag and I think we should at least make that a thing and try and get the word out there!

Anyways here's today's events in Everlong~

- Bubbles is moving in

- Soleil came to visit my house

- I made my town flag (it's a perfect peach) using the website Trickilicly suggested (it's awesome thank you!)

- I edited my town tune so it's a more accurate version of Everlong by the Foo Fighters (or as close as I could get, I had to transpose the key and the note values are a bit off but oh well)

- Katrina was in town again

- Payed Nook the 39k so I'll finally get to visit the island soon! :')

- - - Post Merge - - -

Oh I just had an idea! Maybe anyone who's doing the challenge and posting on tumblr could change their blog title to #organicallycrossing or The One Year Challenge or something also those lines to spread the word more as well as using the tag!
 
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I'm tempted to make a Tumblr for the challenge but I don't trust my own ability to maintain it for a year. I might grab a URL anyway and see what happens.

Upd8:
  • Today's move-in finally gave me a Smug, and it's Jacques! Jacques became my favorite Smug when I visited a random dream town that had him, and he left an impression on me since I had never seen or heard of him. So cool. ♥
  • I haven't gone beetle hunting yet, but I did stop by the island to start nabbing summer bug dex entries before chopping down all the trees.
  • I currently have a little over 40 medals. If anyone has white or black wetsuits at their island at any point, do let me know because I really want one.
  • I added a third bridge for more convenience and now need to fund it. I'm going to have to start beetle hunting more aggressively from here on out.
  • Stitches gave me the Caution Sign PWP, which I never intend to use.
  • Fuchsia has been shaking trees literally all day and I have no idea what she's hoping to achieve.
 
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