You know, that's not a bad idea at all, actually. Reading this has made me want to just restart on my current town instead of focusing on the good aspects of it, hah. It's just difficult deciding whether or not I want to. I've restarted so many times now and I just don't know if I can stomach another reset, but maybe I should. Maybe one final reset for the new year will be a good idea? It's hard to say.
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The Resetting Thread
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You know, that's not a bad idea at all, actually. Reading this has made me want to just restart on my current town instead of focusing on the good aspects of it, hah. It's just difficult deciding whether or not I want to. I've restarted so many times now and I just don't know if I can stomach another reset, but maybe I should. Maybe one final reset for the new year will be a good idea? It's hard to say.
lol I just went ahead and did it. I reset once, and I am so much happier for it. With learning what I have from my first town, I can already see where I'd like to place things. Not all willy-nilly like I did previously; and with things I could not simply move. I'm determined to making this work, and I'm very glad I just went ahead and did it.
Thought I'd use my previous blog post to ask for advice.
Since I started Animal Crossing: New Leaf, I never had a goal in mind. That was completely obvious as I started. I picked any old map, settled for any old villagers, and didn't even track my progress in the game. I just didn't really give a crap. I put my house anywhere and went with the first place I tried. I didn't take notice of anything in my town.
Then I started to take notice of my map. I'd picked this randomly of course, but I actually started to like it. I mainly took notice when I'd started seeing other peoples' towns, and I began to become critical of my own. I thought it was pretty much perfect with the one whole beach beach, private beach, and placement of the Event Plaza and Town Hall were perfect. Right next to each other, right in the middle. Yeah, right. I wasn't happy with my house placement still, but I could work around it at the time.
Then the day came for me to build the anticipated caf?, and I came to realize that there was limited, if not no space for me to put the caf?. I wanted it up against a river or by the train station rails, but I didn't have any space. There was either ponds, my house, the Town Hall or the Event Plaza in the way. I was distraught. I'd placed my house smack-bang in the middle of the widest spot by a the river, the two important places were slammed in the center, which was ALSO by a river thanks to my weird as heck river shape, and there was ponds and tight spaces by the rails.
The only other place I would've settled for was by the cliff, but guess who built the Reset Center smack bang in the middle of it? You guessed it, me. It's still in a terrible place. Right in the middle, but a little to the right. It makes me want to scream sometimes. I can't build anything around it or put anything near it. Eventually, I decided to put the caf? in the middle of the North-East side of my town. Down from the rails, and near a bridge I had built at the time which I later accidentally lost because I was moving it, and Pashmina decided to move in the way. Now I can't put it there even after she's moved thanks to the Reset Center and a bunch of other stuff there. I was still unhappy with this placement of the caf?. All my villagers were in the bottom half of my town, and it just looked so stupid on it's own. Thankfully, I was later suggested the police station which I aligned PERFECTLY with it. That made me like it a bit more (despite the fact it's now causing inconvenience). To be honest, I was still kind of upset about the fact they were just smacked into the middle of basically a field with about 50 ponds in it, but I just decided to live with it.
Then came the campsite. I decided to build it near my home, and I didn't align it at all. Just kind of put it anywhere near my home. Bad choice. I didn't realize it was permanent and it was totally out of line with my house. I still hate where it is today. It looks so stupid on the map. I know that was my problem that I created, and I'm angry at myself for it. I constantly look around my town knowing that it could've gone ANYWHERE else, and there were perfect spots that I just didn't put it in by the cliff. Then I realized something.
If finding a place for the campsite caused me so many problems, how will I ever place my PWP's anywhere? Plus, I'd taken up so much space that would've been perfect for projects with ones I can't demolish, and there's only the crap places left, which is incredibly awkward and ugly when you're trying to build paths to the PWP's so people know they're actually there. And to top it off, when I did place a tonne of PWP's in these places, the even WORSE spots were ready for people to move into! Merry and Aurora both live 2-3 spaces from my house, diagonally and right in front of. All because the perfect spots are taken by stupid PWP's. I was stuck. Would I have to just not build any new PWP's until I got all my dreamies? Of course not. They change too often. I mean, I don't mind random villager placement, but Merry... You're smothering me.
There's never enough space. There's never the right paths. There's never the right flowers. There's never the right anything. I don't want to reset. I'm too attached to my town and everything to do that; but that doesn't stop me from loathing Eldin every day I walk around it, all because I had chosen a bad map because I was reckless in the beginning. But you know what? I don't think that's what happened. I think everyone else happened. I wouldn't of even had dreamies if it weren't for the influence of others. People... People make us compare what we are and what we have. And here I am, feeling depressed almost every day because I hate my town too much and I'm too much of a coward to start again. But do I?
My friend recently reset and said how it's been much better. She uses the reset trick and time travels (which I wouldn't do in my new town) and already has most of her stuff back. For me, I don't feel comfortable leaving my stuff anywhere or trying to rebuild all the stores again by TT'ing. Also, I don't want my tree to be tiny and to TT the crap out of it either. However, I'm literally so unhappy with my town I just want that release. And I want my stuff, of course, so I'd have to put it all down somewhere. If only I had a second copy to do all of this… I don't know what to do…
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Since I started Animal Crossing: New Leaf, I never had a goal in mind. That was completely obvious as I started. I picked any old map, settled for any old villagers, and didn't even track my progress in the game. I just didn't really give a crap. I put my house anywhere and went with the first place I tried. I didn't take notice of anything in my town.
Then I started to take notice of my map. I'd picked this randomly of course, but I actually started to like it. I mainly took notice when I'd started seeing other peoples' towns, and I began to become critical of my own. I thought it was pretty much perfect with the one whole beach beach, private beach, and placement of the Event Plaza and Town Hall were perfect. Right next to each other, right in the middle. Yeah, right. I wasn't happy with my house placement still, but I could work around it at the time.
Then the day came for me to build the anticipated caf?, and I came to realize that there was limited, if not no space for me to put the caf?. I wanted it up against a river or by the train station rails, but I didn't have any space. There was either ponds, my house, the Town Hall or the Event Plaza in the way. I was distraught. I'd placed my house smack-bang in the middle of the widest spot by a the river, the two important places were slammed in the center, which was ALSO by a river thanks to my weird as heck river shape, and there was ponds and tight spaces by the rails.
The only other place I would've settled for was by the cliff, but guess who built the Reset Center smack bang in the middle of it? You guessed it, me. It's still in a terrible place. Right in the middle, but a little to the right. It makes me want to scream sometimes. I can't build anything around it or put anything near it. Eventually, I decided to put the caf? in the middle of the North-East side of my town. Down from the rails, and near a bridge I had built at the time which I later accidentally lost because I was moving it, and Pashmina decided to move in the way. Now I can't put it there even after she's moved thanks to the Reset Center and a bunch of other stuff there. I was still unhappy with this placement of the caf?. All my villagers were in the bottom half of my town, and it just looked so stupid on it's own. Thankfully, I was later suggested the police station which I aligned PERFECTLY with it. That made me like it a bit more (despite the fact it's now causing inconvenience). To be honest, I was still kind of upset about the fact they were just smacked into the middle of basically a field with about 50 ponds in it, but I just decided to live with it.
Then came the campsite. I decided to build it near my home, and I didn't align it at all. Just kind of put it anywhere near my home. Bad choice. I didn't realize it was permanent and it was totally out of line with my house. I still hate where it is today. It looks so stupid on the map. I know that was my problem that I created, and I'm angry at myself for it. I constantly look around my town knowing that it could've gone ANYWHERE else, and there were perfect spots that I just didn't put it in by the cliff. Then I realized something.
If finding a place for the campsite caused me so many problems, how will I ever place my PWP's anywhere? Plus, I'd taken up so much space that would've been perfect for projects with ones I can't demolish, and there's only the crap places left, which is incredibly awkward and ugly when you're trying to build paths to the PWP's so people know they're actually there. And to top it off, when I did place a tonne of PWP's in these places, the even WORSE spots were ready for people to move into! Merry and Aurora both live 2-3 spaces from my house, diagonally and right in front of. All because the perfect spots are taken by stupid PWP's. I was stuck. Would I have to just not build any new PWP's until I got all my dreamies? Of course not. They change too often. I mean, I don't mind random villager placement, but Merry... You're smothering me.
There's never enough space. There's never the right paths. There's never the right flowers. There's never the right anything. I don't want to reset. I'm too attached to my town and everything to do that; but that doesn't stop me from loathing Eldin every day I walk around it, all because I had chosen a bad map because I was reckless in the beginning. But you know what? I don't think that's what happened. I think everyone else happened. I wouldn't of even had dreamies if it weren't for the influence of others. People... People make us compare what we are and what we have. And here I am, feeling depressed almost every day because I hate my town too much and I'm too much of a coward to start again. But do I?
My friend recently reset and said how it's been much better. She uses the reset trick and time travels (which I wouldn't do in my new town) and already has most of her stuff back. For me, I don't feel comfortable leaving my stuff anywhere or trying to rebuild all the stores again by TT'ing. Also, I don't want my tree to be tiny and to TT the crap out of it either. However, I'm literally so unhappy with my town I just want that release. And I want my stuff, of course, so I'd have to put it all down somewhere. If only I had a second copy to do all of this… I don't know what to do…
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
i'm resetting as well. i've a list of criteria i kinda want my town to have (very demanding) but reading through this thread a bit has me realizing things i'd never even thought of before! now it kinda bothers me that while restarting, the date on my ID card thingy will be lame... i hadn't even realised that would change. BUT NOW IT BOTHERS ME. what to do?!
i plan on modeling my town (a little) after Mossdeep City from Pok?mon RSE, hehe.
if anyone's interested, my criteria:
- west-facing beach
- a very specific river shape; somehow after resetting a dozen times my mind settled on one perfect shape, and now i really want it!
- Event Plaza BELOW the river
- no obstructions in the place where i'm going to build my house and directly around it
apart from these, i'd like to have pears as my native fruit and a good place for a second character's home. but if i find a town meeting the above criteria, ill gladly go with those! but so far i've had a few villages that looked quite good but missed just one of the criteria. part of me thinks i should lower my standards, because i'll start loving the village through living in it anyway, but another part of me thinks; hey, why settle for less than that awesome dream village? you're resetting anyway, why give up now?... but yeah.
now the date on my ID card has started bothering me a bit. i'm an incredible perfectionist when it comes to these things, so maybe i'll set the date differently to make it look better... but then again, my birthday isn't on an awesome day either or anything. plus setting the date differently would require time travel to get back to the actual date. and i haven't done any time travelling so far. is it really bad if you time travel? everyone here seems to talk about it as a big taboo (for your main town anyway).
i am a bit scared of the resetting syndrome creeping up on me; again becoming unsatisfied with my new town and starting all over again. but i don't know if that would happen. the aforementioned 365 days challenge seems really interesting... maybe i'll try that too!
sorry for rambling. ( ? ▽ ` )ゞ
i plan on modeling my town (a little) after Mossdeep City from Pok?mon RSE, hehe.
if anyone's interested, my criteria:
- west-facing beach
- a very specific river shape; somehow after resetting a dozen times my mind settled on one perfect shape, and now i really want it!
- Event Plaza BELOW the river
- no obstructions in the place where i'm going to build my house and directly around it
apart from these, i'd like to have pears as my native fruit and a good place for a second character's home. but if i find a town meeting the above criteria, ill gladly go with those! but so far i've had a few villages that looked quite good but missed just one of the criteria. part of me thinks i should lower my standards, because i'll start loving the village through living in it anyway, but another part of me thinks; hey, why settle for less than that awesome dream village? you're resetting anyway, why give up now?... but yeah.
now the date on my ID card has started bothering me a bit. i'm an incredible perfectionist when it comes to these things, so maybe i'll set the date differently to make it look better... but then again, my birthday isn't on an awesome day either or anything. plus setting the date differently would require time travel to get back to the actual date. and i haven't done any time travelling so far. is it really bad if you time travel? everyone here seems to talk about it as a big taboo (for your main town anyway).
i am a bit scared of the resetting syndrome creeping up on me; again becoming unsatisfied with my new town and starting all over again. but i don't know if that would happen. the aforementioned 365 days challenge seems really interesting... maybe i'll try that too!
sorry for rambling. ( ? ▽ ` )ゞ
kerryelizabeth
Ogres Are Like Onions
I'm really really really not attached to my new town at all. I can't even be bothered to play on it most days because I just haven't clicked with it. I'm debating resetting but it'd mean losing all of my lovely villagers and I don't think I can do that. It also took a long time to get the map I wanted. It's such a perfect map so I really don't know why I haven't grown fond of it =/ Sigh, confused confused confused.
I advise against maps like this, I've had two towns with this river shape and there is little to no room at all for public works projects once nine or ten villagers live in your town.
MadisonCrossing
Senior Member
and make a new town in the summer
Ahh, I thought my sisters and I would be the only ones with towns a year after the release date! At least I won't be alone now. c: This makes me feel a lot better about waiting until summer!
Personally, New Leaf is the first game I actually bought close to the release date, but are games still popular a year after the release? I'm worried not many people will be playing it anymore...but if people got bored, wouldn't they just restart or get another copy?
Any replies would really help; thanks! ^u^
kerryelizabeth
Ogres Are Like Onions
People still play Wild World to this day, and that was quite a few years ago now
autumnleavesxo
Secretly a cat
I recently reset because I hated pretty !much everything about my old town, minus the campsite placement, haha. I've got amazing villagers, a really nice layout that suits my needs, and I just feel a million times happier with this town than I ever did in my old one
Bear_Crossing
Senior Member
I recently reset because I hated pretty !much everything about my old town, minus the campsite placement, haha. I've got amazing villagers, a really nice layout that suits my needs, and I just feel a million times happier with this town than I ever did in my old one
Aw, that's great. This happened to me exactly, I'm so happy to have a new town with better villagers.
Bear_Crossing
Senior Member
i think i've been cursed.
i got the PERFECT town this afternoon. i explored it, and put my house down and everything.
and then, only when i planted the tree i noticed... there was a typo in my town's name. i'd been resetting while watching TV and i play in japanese, so i hadn't noticed that instead of トクサネ村 it said トケサネ村, so i hadn't paid proper attention i guess.
i'm so bummed now. it's still there, still saved, but. i don't think i can get over a mistake like that (??̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω?̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
i got the PERFECT town this afternoon. i explored it, and put my house down and everything.
and then, only when i planted the tree i noticed... there was a typo in my town's name. i'd been resetting while watching TV and i play in japanese, so i hadn't noticed that instead of トクサネ村 it said トケサネ村, so i hadn't paid proper attention i guess.
i'm so bummed now. it's still there, still saved, but. i don't think i can get over a mistake like that (??̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω?̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
rosiekitty405
The funny and sarcastic
So I've been playing since the release and I am starting get kinda bored and I've been living withh my
Sucky map for a while and hated it. But on the other hand I have a lot of reorderable dlc's I don't want
To lose. But I might give them up... I've gotten bored so I don't know if I should or not.
My town looks like crap because ice never put ANY work into it really so what's your thoughts.
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That sucks. I honestly myself if I did that I would reset it to because it'd annoy me
Sucky map for a while and hated it. But on the other hand I have a lot of reorderable dlc's I don't want
To lose
. But I might give them up... I've gotten bored so I don't know if I should or not.My town looks like crap because ice never put ANY work into it really so what's your thoughts.
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That sucks. I honestly myself if I did that I would reset it to because it'd annoy me