The Resetting Thread

[HappyTails]

I'm restarting my island. I completely messed up again. I bought bells from another player on here (a big no no and something I had vowed to not do), didn't work for anything, bought DIYs because I was impatient, didn't talk to my villagers much, didn't work on collecting bugs, fish and sea creatures, rushed though HHP to unlock everything and now I just don't care about this island anymore and I feel like I'm playing an island I didn't really earn or deserve.

So I feel a restart will bring the excitement and motivation to play back. I'm going to save my somewhat unfinished island to the Dream Suite and restart. Wish me luck.

Also I thought of a cuter name for both my character and my island.

 

[HappyTails]

I'm still trying to find an island that isn't trash. XD

Also, people on some communities who never restarted their island crack me up with their superiority complex. XD
I guess I'm one of the many terrible people who restarted my island and hurting my pixel islander's 'feelings'.

 

[angelcat621]

I'm still trying to find an island that isn't trash. XD

Also, people on some communities who never restarted their island crack me up with their superiority complex. XD
I guess I'm one of the many terrible people who restarted my island and hurting my pixel islander's 'feelings'.

I'm on my 3rd and hopefully final island. Took me close to 2 weeks to settle on a new map. I'm very picky. My obsession with the perfect airport color, native fruit and flower, trumped all sentimental feelings I had for my old island. Very few regrets.

 

[azurill]

I'm still trying to find an island that isn't trash. XD

Also, people on some communities who never restarted their island crack me up with their superiority complex. XD
I guess I'm one of the many terrible people who restarted my island and hurting my pixel islander's 'feelings'.

I hope you find the right map. I still haven’t reset mine but only because I don’t want to try and find all the DIY’s again. I really just wish we could change the airport color. It’s the only reason I would reset.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I hope you find the right map. I still haven’t reset mine but only because I don’t want to try and find all the DIY’s again. I really just wish we could change the airport color. It’s the only reason I would reset.

Its too bad that the airport colors are limited to only 4 sets of colors (Yellow, Green, Blue, and Orange) I really wish there was more variety of colors for our airports.

 

[HappyTails]

I found a map after two days of resetting. I decided to focus on a few things I want for my new map. One I wanted map with a south/east river mouth, a dock facing west and a blue or orange airport. I wanted a map that had the RS building a decent space away from the airport and a somewhat centered airport. Once I decided to just focus on a few things and not try to have it all, I found a map that had all my must haves. I didn't care about the native fruit, native flower or starter villagers.

So I found a map with the east/south river mouth, dock to the west and a centered airport far away from RS. Airport is blue, native fruit is apples, native flower is lillies, and starters are Katt and Kody.

I am satisfied and very happy with this map.

 

[azurill]

Its too bad that the airport colors are limited to only 4 sets of colors (Yellow, Green, Blue, and Orange) I really wish there was more variety of colors for our airports.

Yea more color options would be great. I would have a purple airport if I could. Even if we could just repaint with existing colors I would make it blue.

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I found a map after two days of resetting. I decided to focus on a few things I want for my new map. One I wanted map with a south/east river mouth, a dock facing west and a blue or orange airport. I wanted a map that had the RS building a decent space away from the airport and a somewhat centered airport. Once I decided to just focus on a few things and not try to have it all, I found a map that had all my must haves. I didn't care about the native fruit, native flower or starter villagers.

So I found a map with the east/south river mouth, dock to the west and a centered airport far away from RS. Airport is blue, native fruit is apples, native flower is lillies, and starters are Katt and Kody.

I am satisfied and very happy with this map.

That’s great that you found a good map. For some reason I didn’t think of airport color when I picked my map. I picked it because everything else was great.

 

[HappyTails]

I remember back when I first started playing this, and I remember one of the stupidest reasons I restarted. Funny how that stupid reason is now on my new island.

I'll share a picture right now

I didn't like the water coming all the way up to the land. SMH, I don't get it either. XD

 

[moon_child]

I recently restarted my other island too and I forgot how tiring it is to actually find a map. It seems Nintendo has this weird superpower of knowing exactly what you’re looking for and holding them back from you on purpose. This time around I have been looking specifically for a peaches and yellow airport combination and a pretty decent map and it took me almost 8 hours to find one when I remember back when I tried to find a map with cherries and orange airport before I kept seeing so many peaches and yellow airport combos. It’s so mind boggling. The RNG seems to like torturing people I guess.

 

[usa-chan]

to the people who feel oddly detached to their island and are on the fence of resetting it, i recently resetted the island that i had since the game launched and i have zero regrets about it. one of the main issues with my old island is that i time travelled during the beginning process to get an open space for maple - this made me rush through the kk slider process, and honestly kind of ruined the rest of the game for me. i was also constantly comparing my island to other people's, and it was so unmotivating to hop on and play. i stopped playing the game after a couple of months of the release (which is totally unlike me since i played NL for like four years before getting tired of it), but i recently decided to reset my island even though it had all of my dreamies and most of the diys.

on my new island, i'm currently not tting, but playing is honestly much more fulfilling to me now. i really enjoy just taking my time to work on my island without the "pressure". sure, there's random furniture lying around because i'm trying to get that 3 star rating, and until today, i had none of my dreamies, but i really am enjoying myself more. i hope everyone else that decides to reset gets that to feel accomplished with their own islands.

 

[prae]

so I reset my island the other day, and it's been like a breath of fresh for me. I like working on an island theme, and while I liked the last theme I had in concept, it felt like a chore to work on my island and play the game.

but with the reset, it's honestly been a lot of fun so far. the new theme I'm working with has me excited to actually play through the game, and since I don't really have any specific villagers I'm looking for this time, I think I'm gonna let my plots auto fill for once, which should bring an interesting group to my island.

basically, resetting helped heal my acnh burnout, and now I actually wanna play again.

 

[Moritz]

I'm.... restarting my island again.
I think...

I do love my island. But it has a problem I just can't find a solution for. And the way my island is set up, if I tear down that area, I will have to tear down the whole island as its all connected.

I'd have to move the river, which means I have to move every house. Which means I need to move the path down, which means I no longer have room for something else. Just not doable.

By restart I mean transfer it to my second switch and send a new character with terraforming unlocked to a new island.

So the island wouldn't actually be lost and I can just move it back if I can't find a new island I like.

Edit: thought about it more, it's not worth it.
I'll keep this island.
There must be a way to make it work

 

[-Blue-]

@Moritz What is it that you're trying to fix? I'm sure if you posted a picture of the area that some members here could give you some advice that you might like.

 

[Moritz]

@Moritz What is it that you're trying to fix? I'm sure if you posted a picture of the area that some members here could give you some advice that you might like.

I think I might have solved it.
I decided to try thinking outside of the box.
Literally.

I dug holes in the side of the cliff, and moved the shops off the cliff they were on top of, and put them in it.

This shrunk the space on top of the cliff that was too big for small builds but too small for big builds.

I then moved my house from where I was struggling to decorate the outside of and put it on top of that cliff.

This has now freed up a larger space where I can try and work an idea from my old island back into.

I'm still working on moving everything right now but so far it's coming together nicely so I feel a lot better.

 

[-Blue-]

I'm still working on moving everything right now but so far it's coming together nicely so I feel a lot better.

Well that's good to hear! Sometimes it helps to come back to a project with a fresh mind. Not just with this game, but everything in general.

 

[nightglow]

Well my data kind of went out the window. I suppose it's ok, but I really liked my island I had... But that's what i get messing with files lol.
With the last update we got, I feel less stressed about picking a map at least. I don't have to worry about my airport color. And this time, I'll take my sweet time so I don't burn out from diy hunting. No amiibo help this time unfortunately, but maybe that could work as a positive in the long run. It's still kind of annoying because I did get alot of stuff done on that file.

Could use some island name ideas though. Looking for something neutral if anyone has fun neutral ideas.
And I am considering choosing a map with southern river mouths and just having the rivers start on a cliff near the front of the island. I plan on a flat island beyond that cuz terraforming is a nightmare and no fun at all. I haven't played on that kind of map so I think it could be a fun new start for me. But I'll be resetting for Plucky and thinking about setting the date for 2020.

 

[angiepie]

I’ve restarted my island technically twice. The first time I just stopped playing immediately lol. I restarted it this year on the 19th and haven’t looked back since. I don’t have any regrets really, I do miss my Celeste items but I can get them back. This time I’ll take my time (except in the beginning I do TT because it’s just such a SLOW start), but after that, I’ll do it in real time. I really just hated my first island and got sick of looking at it. I took too much inspiration from someone and it felt like a copy cat.

 

[Moritz]

Tonight I made a new island. My third (main) Island.

And by new, I mean the map is near identical to the map of my first island.
I restarted my first island because I did not like the fruit or the airport colour. Not because I was unhappy with the island.

This new island has the (only) airport colour I like, and my favourite fruit.

The only things that are different map wise are beach rocks, the peninsula is a different shape (same spot though) and redds beach is in a different location.

I'm feeling good about this.

(The issue with island number 2 was the framerate kept dropping and I had no idea how to fix it. The island still exists, I moved it to my second switch. I'll still play on it, just not as often)

 

[Moritz]

I reset my second island today.

I found the exact map I was looking for on my second attempt but the airport was the wrong colour so I reset to try again.

Its been a long time and I've not found the map again to even attempt the right airport colour.

Mistakes were made.

 

[cya]

Considering restarting my island. I haven't played NH in so long, and whenever I go on, I get overwhelmed by all the things I have to do. Part of my island is complete and I really like it, but the rest is bare and to work on it, I need to remove so many flowers. It seems like such a hassle. I also don't like that I can't recognise my original island because of terraforming. I kind of want to restart and then never use terraforming, or only make minor changes, y'know?

I've taken a lot of screenshots, so I'll be able to recreate the parts I like, but I think it's time to start over...