Okay this is something that I've been wondering with my old island. I made my 2nd island in a design that I've felt really proud about, but for some reason when I compare my 2nd island to my main island I just feel like I put too much effort into it. I mean I was trying to make changes on the main island, but the ideas that I wanted on that island is not fitting well with what I came up on my 2nd island. So now I am wondering do I restart the old island so I can make a different layout that is almost like Twilight? I know that I can carry all of my items over from the old island to the new island, but I am not sure.
I know I said in the past that I wanted to keep my main island, but after getting the 2nd island and designing it I feel more happy with that one, but the old island I have I just don't know. This is like comparing "old vs new" at this point. Its a weird thing to ask. I feel stuck.
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I think that unless your main issue with your first island is the placement of resident services you should keep it.
Even if you flattened it, you'd still be in a better position than if you restarted it.
You'd lose all of the work you've done over thousands of hours and I'm just not sure its worth it.
I would see this as an opportunity to play your first island again. Take it piece by piece. If you make an area you like, keep it. Move to the areas that surround it and try to make them blend into it.
Also, since you have a new island going already, you might find yourself overwhelmed if you tried to have a second one thats also at the very start.
No I am not. And yet again, its your choice, your decision to make.. but you did state in your original post that you wanted a layout that is almost like twilight.. and in my mind that translated to your map and how that looks.. but maybe thats my misinterpretation.
I think that unless your main issue with your first island is the placement of resident services you should keep it.
Even if you flattened it, you'd still be in a better position than if you restarted it.
You'd lose all of the work you've done over thousands of hours and I'm just not sure its worth it.
I would see this as an opportunity to play your first island again. Take it piece by piece. If you make an area you like, keep it. Move to the areas that surround it and try to make them blend into it.
Also, since you have a new island going already, you might find yourself overwhelmed if you tried to have a second one thats also at the very start.
I am not too overwhelmed with the 2nd island because I am pretty much taking my time with it and I am not trying to rush through it. Its the main issue I have is the Resident Services on the main island. Its like on the left side of the map and the airport is a bit too close so I had an idea that I wanted but it didn't work so I might as well have to restart.
Also since I have a 2nd island I can just carry all of the items from the old island to the 2nd island so I don't feel like losing everything. So in a way I still can have my stuff while restarting. I did learn about this when my friend restarted her island and she had to take all of her items to her new island. Sure that is time consuming, but it will be worth it in the end.
No matter what ideas I do on the old island its not working in my favor. The 2nd island is what I wanted my original island to be like and I was surprised that I made it better, but its just that the old layout I have at the moment is not doing any better. Even if I do flatten it, it still won't work well, because I do remember my old layout having a separate pond and waterfall but the problem is I don't remember where it originally was so there's that. I guess the only thing I would lose out on is DIYS, but I can care less about that, because I've seen all of the DIYS I learned so far.
No I am not. And yet again, its your choice, your decision to make.. but you did state in your original post that you wanted a layout that is almost like twilight.. and in my mind that translated to your map and how that looks.. but maybe thats my misinterpretation.
I am not too overwhelmed with the 2nd island because I am pretty much taking my time with it and I am not trying to rush through it. Its the main issue I have is the Resident Services on the main island. Its like on the left side of the map and the airport is a bit too close so I had an idea that I wanted but it didn't work so I might as well have to restart.
Also since I have a 2nd island I can just carry all of the items from the old island to the 2nd island so I don't feel like losing everything. So in a way I still can have my stuff while restarting. I did learn about this when my friend restarted her island and she had to take all of her items to her new island. Sure that is time consuming, but it will be worth it in the end.
No matter what ideas I do on the old island its not working in my favor. The 2nd island is what I wanted my original island to be like and I was surprised that I made it better, but its just that the old layout I have at the moment is not doing any better. Even if I do flatten it, it still won't work well, because I do remember my old layout having a separate pond and waterfall but the problem is I don't remember where it originally was so there's that. I guess the only thing I would lose out on is DIYS, but I can care less about that, because I've seen all of the DIYS I learned so far.
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When I said that I meant that I want to make it "like Twilight, but in a different layout" but thanks for your feedback anyway.
Btw I have everything planned out and if you do have a 2nd island this is where it can be helpful when restarting if you don't want to lose everything.
Before deleting the old island:
1. Make sure all favorite villagers are moved out to Twilight
2. Take all the users belongings and carry it over to Twilight
3. Once every home is cleaned out delete resident/users
4. Take all the bells, every item from storage, and carry to Twilight
5. Spend all the reminding Nook Miles on all users to get addtional Nook Mile Tickets
6. Grab all the Items on Island to take with you to Twilight
7. Dig all the flowers and put them in Twilight
8. When everything is cleared out "Delete Save Data"
Ideas for New Traverse Island:
1. Airport Color must be Green
2. Resident Services needs to be on the top left corner map
3. Airport needs to be far away from Resident Services
4. Secret Island must be on Top right Corner
5. Must have only a single flowing river
6. Dock must be on the Right side of the map
7. Get every item that you got from old Traverse to the new Traverse on Twilight 8. Keep starter villagers if duplicates kick them out with amiibos if not keep them until photo obtained.
Just to let everyone know that if you have a friend or a 2nd switch like I do it will take a long time to transfer all the items you have on your old island to your friend to keep or your 2nd island to hold on to before you restart. Let me just say this took me 7 hours to do.
I finally made my decesion. After a year and 2 months of playing, I am going to restart my main island Traverse after 3,000 hours of gameplay.
This is something I've been wanting to do for the longest time, but for the longest time I've been living on Traverse I feel like its time for me to move on. The island of Traverse was an interesting experience. When I started off, I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea what to do stuff and I over stressed myself trying to figure out how to design Traverse. I did visit other people's islands for Inspiration and truth be told I was impressed with their island, but it made me hate how Traverse looks. Over a year I've made it my goal to make Traverse the best island it can be, but it only just made me burned myself out.
Then there was times where I went to a trading site to get the stuff I want, but I knew at that point it spoiled me and caused me to have trust issues when making friends. Some people wanted to be friend, but then I come to find out that they only used me to get stuff out of me and then they stopped talking to me. Even today when I tried to talk to my friends they either have forgotten about me or they just don't seem to want to talk to me anymore.
Now I come to the Present and since I moved to a new Island by the name Twilight with Roxas being the new Resident Representative. (Since I got a 2nd Switch) I just had to make a decision. That decision is to let Traverse go and move on to a different island of my own. I don't know, because when I look at it, it just brings back terrible memories of what happened, and reminded me all of the bad stuff that happen. I know there were things that I could've done better, but it just wasn't making me feel happy. Also what ideas I had for Traverse wasn't working and it just wasn't in my favor.
So now I am going to wait until everything is cleared out from my home, carry all the stuff out from Traverse to Twilight and onto the new Island when I finally go to a new Island to help broaden my Horizons. Traverse will be gone for good. Its been a rough Journey, but for now its time to move on from this island and start over on a new island to help me feel better about myself.
well it finally happened I restarted my old island. I recently started decorating since carrying everything over was a real pain, but here is the new island layout I went with and just my luck I got a Green Airport. I called it "Destiny" because in Kingdom Hearts 1 the main character "Sora" is from that original island that was destroyed by the darkness. Anyways here is the map layout:
Ok, here’s the thing. I am kinda burnt out with NH and my island is 5 stars and has been for a while now.
As far as terraforming goes I am pretty much done with the island. I got the map with the double south rivers and resident services is completely centered as is the secret beach...which I love. Pretty much my island is completely symmetrical and my OCD would bug me if it wasn’t.
As far as native things go I was lucky to get Peaches. Didn’t care about what flower. And even though it is not blue my airport is green which I like to think of it as my Vulcan Blood(Big Star Trek fan here) so that is fine. The beach is almost perfect so no complaints there.
Now the thing is I want a new start but all the work, not to mention I have all of my dreamies, items catalog, and all my hybrid and perfect flowers.
I’d hate to lose all that work. Please advice. I am really in a slump as far as desire to play.
Ok, here’s the thing. I am kinda burnt out with NH and my island is 5 stars and has been for a while now.
As far as terraforming goes I am pretty much done with the island. I got the map with the double south rivers and resident services is completely centered as is the secret beach...which I love. Pretty much my island is completely symmetrical and my OCD would bug me if it wasn’t.
As far as native things go I was lucky to get Peaches. Didn’t care about what flower. And even though it is not blue my airport is green which I like to think of it as my Vulcan Blood(Big Star Trek fan here) so that is fine. The beach is almost perfect so no complaints there.
Now the thing is I want a new start but all the work, not to mention I have all of my dreamies, items catalog, and all my hybrid and perfect flowers.
I’d hate to lose all that work. Please advice. I am really in a slump as far as desire to play.
Unless you're really motivated for a new start, I wouldn't do it.
You could find yourself in a position where a new island doesn't bring back the spark, but all your hard work has been deleted. And that would super suck
Unless you're really motivated for a new start, I wouldn't do it.
You could find yourself in a position where a new island doesn't bring back the spark, but all your hard work has been deleted. And that would super suck
For those with 2 switches, do you have both islands in the same hemisphere? I am thinking about getting a second switch instead of restarting, so just curious if any benefits of starting the second island in a different hemisphere? Or would it be too weird for "real time" play?
For those with 2 switches, do you have both islands in the same hemisphere? I am thinking about getting a second switch instead of restarting, so just curious if any benefits of starting the second island in a different hemisphere? Or would it be too weird for "real time" play?
I have my second island in a different hemisphere. I really like having an island in each hemisphere. One of my reasons was it was nice having an island in summer when my main island was in winter. Seasonal DIY’s can be a pain to get especially the maple leaf and Cherry Blossom. I didn’t want my islands on the same hemisphere because I didn’t want to search for them on two islands at the same time.
Well after some hard thinking I finally resetted. I did however give my friend a couple of my villagers that she wanted so they went to a good home.
Now, I am pleased with my new start so far...even though I am pretty sure the map I chose is almost the exact thing I started with in the first place but oh well. The first two villagers where Pheobe and Sprocket and I am happy with them, fruit is Peaches, Airport is green, resident services is centered as is the secret beach...so those where perfect.
I wanted to avoid soft resetting the first 3 villagers from the plots and the game was super nice to me, I got Jacob, Lolly, and Audie...super happy with these.
Now as far as the Nook stop items I have yet to see which colors I have soo we will see.
All in all I am very happy, still gonna miss some things but that will always happen.
I'm planning on resetting my island soon and was hoping if anyone would help me out in how to go about making a marshmallow/mystery themed island (the marshmallow for aesthetic and then mystery just to make it interesting for myself). My problem is mostly I don't know how I would even go about doing this and I don't think I'd be able to find inspo for it (which unfortunately I'm not very good at designing without references) I feel a little stuck and helpless.
I might restart my island, just because it's kinda getting stale, and I want to do something else. I like decorating my island, but I went side ways, and don't know what I'm doing with it anymore. So, I think I should restart
I got all my villagers, so I can always add them all back. I was either going to go back to my original dark fantasy idea. Then thought about maybe doing an eagle island (because it sounds fun) but still pondering ideas. Just something new and fun.
It's not that I don't love my island, but I'm thinking about it. Any advice on doing all same species island, or a dark fantasy island?
finally taking the plunge and resetting my day one island in the hopes that rebuilding an island from the beginning/starting over with a blank slate will ease my burnout a little! it kinda sucks to be just wasting everything sat in my storage etc but i don't have anything nobody else is selling lol
Well, here’s the deal,
I am happy with my island, and everything is going very well. I have no regrets about resetting, but…
About two days ago I had this idea pop into my head. And now I can’t stop thinking about it. My current theme is Victorian, and Ive decided that I will wait until the winter holidays to come back to that idea. My new idea has a summer tropical theme, and I wanted to do something very different from what you see all over Pinterest and YouTube. How about you? Did you reset?
Just reset my island and it was the best thing I could have done for this game to last for me. I rushed through my first run of the game and finished it really fast, not I am taking my time and really enjoying the game for what it is. Im so glad I did this cause now I cant stop playing again. I was so worried I would lose interest in this great game. Now I just cant wait to see what E3 bring to ACNH!
