Haha, I can’t imagine restarting multiple times! I actually ended up buying a second Switch system so I could try again without losing all of the hard work on my first island, in case I have regret, lol. It’s too anxiety producing. But I am curious….. what are some reasons that make you decide to start over? I wonder if you’ve gotten better at recognizing island shapes/styles that work best for you?
Sorry for the incoming novel!!
Originally I was going to keep my launch day island forever and just start anew on my second switch. Buuuuut after a bunch of failed attempts at starting a new island, eventually I decided I wanted my new island to have the same name and theme as my og island (that I disliked the layout of). But I didn’t want two islands with the same name so I sadly chose to incinerate my og island
(worst. mistake. ever. I ended up giving up on that new island after multiple failed attempts and resets, so I gave up all my progress for nothing
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As for why I keep restarting…
I get excited coming up with ideas for islands I want to build. But eventually I get stuck while decorating and end up blaming the layout (resident services location, airport location, river mouths etc). So I tell myself “if only I had THIS type of map, everything would work out!” and get stuck in an endless cycle of resetting
Sometimes I do the secondary character island transfer thingy so I can already have terraforming unlocked and transfer a bunch of items- this makes it less tedious since I’m not starting from complete scratch. But it’s still tedious to upgrade the second character and transfer all the items to their inventory
There have been times that I have reset for very stupid reasons. Like “something about this place doesn’t feel right”
And I reset my last “forever island” because I suddenly decided that I really, really wanted an island with the big chonky peninsula so I could place my house on it. Oh, and I really hated that cosmos weren’t my native flower even though the native flower is pointless LOL
And this is made all the more painful by the fact that I am extremely picky about my map. I have wasted countless hours resetting for the “perfect” map, only to decide after a week of playing on it: “actually I hate this map.”
Ahhh sorry this is so long!!!!
TL;DR: I’m weird.
[ but honestly i have no idea if i'll get back into the game the way i did back in 2021,,
Yeah, Overthinkers! Thanks for your response, it really is entertaining. After reading all of your reasons, I think I just need to be braver and try new islands more frequently. But….I will still keep my original island on my OG Switch. Yeah I can imagine it was a sad realization after you reset your OG island and then thought “what the heck have I done!”
