The Resetting Thread

[janjan]

I don't think the house location is cramped, especially since you're going to move out the villager next to you. But if you like being close to Main Street, then you might find it tiresome to travel up there, even if you are running on a path.

Also, if you like to have big setups of PWPs (like a large park or something), the river might make that more difficult, unless you like the idea of a river running through everything.

Unfortunately, the maps you get are so random. It could be that the next reset gives you a perfect map, or it might be 100 resets from now. But if you are having these doubts after just getting the map, then I'd say keep searching.

You are totally right. I didn't love it. And the river definitely had me really unsure about it and yes the house is way too far from main street.
BUT LOOK, I THINK I LOVE THIS ONE!! It has apples too and triangle grass!

 

[Kiwi]

^to janjan

This map looks really nice!
A park north of the plaza/next to retail would be so awesome!

 

[janjan]

^to janjan

This map looks really nice!
A park north of the plaza/next to retail would be so awesome!

YAAAYY ok it's a keeper! haha. That's a really good idea! Though I was thinking of putting my home and/or cafe there.. so maybe a park beneath my town hall or something would be pretty nice too. Like fountain and bench.

 

[Unidentified Floor Orange]

Yeah, I think that one is much better. There is a lot more open space (especially if you use the reset trick to manipulate where villagers go), and I like how the plaza, town hall, Re-Tail, and station are all in the same vicinity. And the southern pond being right in the middle looks like it'd be cute for a picnic area or something.

 

[janjan]

Yeah, I think that one is much better. There is a lot more open space (especially if you use the reset trick to manipulate where villagers go), and I like how the plaza, town hall, Re-Tail, and station are all in the same vicinity. And the southern pond being right in the middle looks like it'd be cute for a picnic area or something.

Exactly what I was thinking about everything you said!
I love that little pond at the bottom, I can make a little cute like neighborhood park/picnic area there like you said.
But I don't know if I should place my house next to re-tail area, or right next to town hall to it's right, or right by main street entrance to the right.... what do you think?

thank you guys for being so helpful <3

 

[carrah]

In the last few days I've been all wishy-washy about resetting my alternate town, and I don't really know why. D: I think I just ended up not liking the map as much as I thought I did at the outset. Moose parking his fat butt in town and refusing to leave is also not helping. I'd go ahead and just do it except for a few things: first, Marina. My very kind friend specifically held her for me, and Marina was one of my top dreamies, and I both don't want her to go, AND would feel so lousy as a person taking her and then just going "Well, I want to reset!" I also have some other villagers I really like and whom I don't want to lose: Blaire and Savannah, primarily.

I think if I did reset I would cycle first as a giveaway, as I do have some fairly popular villagers (Diana, for example).

I think it just comes back to the map. I thought I would love the map, and I don't. The river is too windy, there's not a lot of room for PWPs, and I'm just very "blah" about it.

Overall I just... don't know. I want to reset but I also don't. Advice?

 

[Unidentified Floor Orange]

Exactly what I was thinking about everything you said!
I love that little pond at the bottom, I can make a little cute like neighborhood park/picnic area there like you said.
But I don't know if I should place my house next to re-tail area, or right next to town hall to it's right, or right by main street entrance to the right.... what do you think?

thank you guys for being so helpful <3

My personal preference is to have my house a little removed from public buildings (actually my house is really far from all that lol), so if I had to pick, I'd say right of the train station where it gets wider after the lake or southeast or southwest of the lake (in the case of southwest, I'd move the bridge so that it is just south of the lake so I could quickly hop over and get to Main Street).

Not sure if that helped at all lol. I would say that left of Re-Tail might be a little annoying because you'd have to go around that pond unless you put a one square wide walkway adjacent to the train tracks so you could cut behind Re-Tail and the pond.

And it's no problem ^^

- - - Post Merge - - -

In the last few days I've been all wishy-washy about resetting my alternate town, and I don't really know why. D: I think I just ended up not liking the map as much as I thought I did at the outset. Moose parking his fat butt in town and refusing to leave is also not helping. I'd go ahead and just do it except for a few things: first, Marina. My very kind friend specifically held her for me, and Marina was one of my top dreamies, and I both don't want her to go, AND would feel so lousy as a person taking her and then just going "Well, I want to reset!" I also have some other villagers I really like and whom I don't want to lose: Blaire and Savannah, primarily.

I think if I did reset I would cycle first as a giveaway, as I do have some fairly popular villagers (Diana, for example).

I think it just comes back to the map. I thought I would love the map, and I don't. The river is too windy, there's not a lot of room for PWPs, and I'm just very "blah" about it.

Overall I just... don't know. I want to reset but I also don't. Advice?

Do you have access to a second 3DS? Like say a friend's you could borrow? You could cycle out your favorites in your digital town to your cartridge town if you popped the cartridge into another 3DS.

 

[janjan]

My personal preference is to have my house a little removed from public buildings (actually my house is really far from all that lol), so if I had to pick, I'd say right of the train station where it gets wider after the lake or southeast or southwest of the lake (in the case of southwest, I'd move the bridge so that it is just south of the lake so I could quickly hop over and get to Main Street).

Not sure if that helped at all lol. I would say that left of Re-Tail might be a little annoying because you'd have to go around that pond unless you put a one square wide walkway adjacent to the train tracks so you could cut behind Re-Tail and the pond.

And it's no problem ^^

Yeah I thought about building like way below town hall .. the area to the right of the train station is actually really small so I decided to build next to retail and the pond actually isn't that annoying to walk around It's because I'm so lazy LOL and love being near town hall/main street/re-tail for convenience.

 

[carrah]

Unfortunately, no, I don't have access to a 2nd 3DS at all. I'm thinking if I do it, I might sell just Marina and then give the profits to my friend, as that would make me feel better, but still doesn't change the underlying feeling of "Man, I'm being a jerk", hah. At this point I'm leaning towards doing it, though, as long as my friend is ok with me selling Marina and her taking the profits, just because the map is driving me so barmy. But I'm still very ambivalent, I don't know.

 

[Unidentified Floor Orange]

Yeah I thought about building like way below town hall .. the area to the right of the train station is actually really small so I decided to build next to retail and the pond actually isn't that annoying to walk around It's because I'm so lazy LOL and love being near town hall/main street/re-tail for convenience.

Awesome, so one less thing to worry about now

Unfortunately, no, I don't have access to a 2nd 3DS at all. I'm thinking if I do it, I might sell just Marina and then give the profits to my friend, as that would make me feel better, but still doesn't change the underlying feeling of "Man, I'm being a jerk", hah. At this point I'm leaning towards doing it, though, as long as my friend is ok with me selling Marina and her taking the profits, just because the map is driving me so barmy. But I'm still very ambivalent, I don't know.

Ah, that's a bummer. The only other thing I can think of is if you could find someone else to hold Marina for you. Hopefully things work out regardless of what you decide to do

 

[mallywa]

I've been thinking strongly about resetting. ): The thing is, I hate my map and it's really hard for me to think of where I want to place PWPs and such. I love a few of my villagers, but the rest I think I'm neutral towards these days, even though I really just got two. The only thing is, I have so many awesome accomplishments in this town - the number of hours I've played, how big my tree is, I have everything on Main Street unlocked (yes even Emporium) except for the Fortune-Telling shop, and I have a lot of stuff in my museum (in fact, I only have one fossil left in the fossils section). I also have a lot of my catalogue filled out, which could be bothersome to replace. I've also thought of buying a second copy of the game, but I feel like eventually my original town would just go the wayside anyway as I transfer stuff to the copy I like more, so what would be the point? Idk, anyone have any advice?

 

[gingerbread]

I reset, got one of my dreamies in the reset town after a few tries. :O
Tia the teapot xD

 

[Cinnamon78]

No shame in resetting I have muitlple times and just did yesterday. I am still in process of finding a good layout

 

[Amphibian]

So I'm resetting my second game to find an awesome layout, I find one where everything appears to be perfect, there's a south-facing slope from the dock leading straight to Re-Tail, but there's a villager house right in front of that slope... so I thought "I'll just make that villager move out"... then see that the house belongs to Pekoe, who is one of my dream villagers.

 

[carrah]

Man, I feel like I'm going to be resetting forever. D: I'm having a hard time finding a combo of map I like, with villagers I like. My problem is I want a very specific type of river that's not particularly common. I found a great map last night but TWO(!) of its five villagers I already have right now in my main town. :| Given that I don't plan on TT'ing, I didn't want to just say "Well I'll make them move away!", and I don't want dupes. So... I kept going on. I really hope I find one soon!

 

[Mayor Scout]

Yep, I'm resetting again. Just waiting for my go-to item holder to respond to my ask on tumblr haha. This time I'm ONLY keeping my carnations, gracie items, and bells, the rest I'm going to start from scratch. I think I TTed too quickly, realized my house needed to be about 3 spaces farther back in order to actually work path-wise, etc. Ugh.

I'm excited though, and hopefully this will be the last time (though who am I kidding, I say that every time oops).

EDIT: She responded! Dropping my things off and then starting over again. Wish me luck!

 

[Wondrous]

Well that's amazing. My data was just corrupted. The one time I accidentally press the power-off button a bit too soon, it screws everything up. My beautiful town of Magenta is gone. Yay. Back to resetting.

I'll post here again when I find my new town. ._. I really don't want to spend that long again looking for a specific map, so I'm gonna try to force myself to grab one with nice villagers and a decent layout. I'm not even sure what to name it, or my character, for that matter.

Ugh. Be careful saving, guys.

 

[ninfia]

so i'm very very highly considering resetting... i'm hearing from lots of people posting here that have gotten very nice outcomes and are happy with their new towns!! but what about after you've made so much progress in your current town.. and you're just nervous about resetting?? i'm going to have to move all of my villagers over there, my bells, my items, etc.. and i'm pretty sure i can do that pretty easily (even though the whole villager idea makes me a little nervous because i'd be devastated if i lost any of them in the process)
i just hate my town layout so much. there's so little room for pwp's and such. and my villagers house placements. UGGHH and they're villagers i love too so i cant just let them leave!! and the plaza placement and everything just. ugh. i'd love a fresh start but i'm really nervous to but i also Really really really wanna at the same time.. what do you guys think ;w;'' ?

 

[kittenrobotarmy]

so i'm very very highly considering resetting... i'm hearing from lots of people posting here that have gotten very nice outcomes and are happy with their new towns!! but what about after you've made so much progress in your current town.. and you're just nervous about resetting?? i'm going to have to move all of my villagers over there, my bells, my items, etc.. and i'm pretty sure i can do that pretty easily (even though the whole villager idea makes me a little nervous because i'd be devastated if i lost any of them in the process)
i just hate my town layout so much. there's so little room for pwp's and such. and my villagers house placements. UGGHH and they're villagers i love too so i cant just let them leave!! and the plaza placement and everything just. ugh. i'd love a fresh start but i'm really nervous to but i also Really really really wanna at the same time.. what do you guys think ;w;'' ?

Your town map is forever and everything else is re-doable. I recommend reseting, I did it and I am happy that I did.

 

[ninfia]

Your town map is forever and everything else is re-doable. I recommend reseting, I did it and I am happy that I did.

is it really safe to move villagers?? ahh im soo nervous about my villagers especially i feel like i'm not as nervous about earing my progress back but more so what would happen if i lost one of my villagers in the process of doing this... like. 7 of my 9 villagers are dreamies i'd Never ever wanna lose it just makes me so scared thinking about it :c
i was thinking i just tt them to boxes on my current town, and (since i'll be using a friends 3ds to do this) bring my new character on my new town in to take them and repeat until i get all of them into my new town?? is that how you do it?