What do you look for in a starting map?

I look for good river placements / plaza placements. Not sure how I feel about having layers because of terraforming but I'd like for my rivers to start in good places. I'd also want the plaza towards the middle part of the mid, or lower middle. However, I will be resetting for airport/fruit too so that plays a factor.
 
* rocks on the beach. i don't know if they can be ugly or in the way, but it's something i will have in consideration at least.
* where the rivers meet the sea, i'm not sure if you can change that
* permanent rocks (if there is such a thing in this game, i'm not sure to be honest)
* honestly the rivers too, because i don't want to completely reshape my rivers, at least not to start with.
* starting points of water because someone on tumblr didn't think you would be able to change that so i might keep that in mind, at least if something along those lines is confirmed.

I don't think i will care too much about ponds, starting fruit or exactly how the different levels are placed. you can change the landscape pretty drastically so it's not something i will worry about. i do wonder about perfect fruit though, now that i think about it i'm not sure if i would be happy with oranges as a starting fruit because i think perfect oranges are ugly... hmm.
 
I found this list on tumblr the other day and agree with most of it. Mainly just don’t want pears or a villager I despise.
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|sf>I usually have two towns on two machines. In general, I want long rivers, lots of little lakes, three layers to the lay-out if possible, and preferably both towns should have a different starting fruit. Starting villagers aren't normally a big issue. My favorite type of lay-out used to be little lakes surrounding the museum.
 
Most important for me is circle grass, apples, and a river that exits through the south and the side.

I'd like a blue airport and Nook's Services to be further north but not as important.

Edit: before you ask 'why circle grass', it just looks nice and neat since it's the most uniform pattern
 
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I just want the residential area to be the central piece of the map, but I also want apples.
 
i’ll be looking for good river/pond placements and a good plaza placement c:
 
I have more of a "don't want" list:
- no oranges/peaches
- no circle grass
- no centered north beach

I personally like water ways, so my only issue with a north-sourced river would be if I can't cut it off and it has to have an outlet to the side or south. Otherwise, I'm fine with it.

Rocks better be moveable but I really don't have that detailed of a plan for my layout so there's no way to know if it's going to affect anything until I really know the map. idr think anyone can really tell if it's going to mess anything up right off the bat but... whatever.

I'll probably just trust my instincts for the rest.
 
I don't want triangle grass. Don't like it so it's always been an instant reset if i see it.
Prefer a blue airport, cherries and a river outlet on the east or west side but probably won't reset more than 2 or 3 times because I want to play the game NOW.
 
i don't really have much of a list of demands as i did with new leaf because so much can just be changed. though i'm looking for a map that has a lot of even spacing with no thin slithers of land, and for the placement of the plaza to be good.
 
The main thing I want is for the airport to line up with the resident center so that it can connect with a straight path forward. I'd also really like a green airport and oranges as my native fruit, I worry I'll be resetting for a while...
 
I want a river that is interesting, but not obnoxious. I'd also like a couple ponds. Since we don't yet know how long it'll take to unlock terraforming, I'd rather start with a river that allow for a fun town design, and then just make any corrections to the river later.
 
personally I'll be aiming for a map that has plenty of starting cliff space and not too much water, so I have lots of room to experiment with how I begin to develop my island :3
 
for the actual landform of the island itself i'll be looking for at least one pond and two river mouths that go to the beach to the south and east, or both to one of those directions. i would like for the resident services to be in the center, but if it's focused more towards the right i'll be alright with that.

as for the details on the map, i'd like to look for a blue or red airport, but if purple is an option y'all know i'll have to go with it. i'd like either triangle or circle grass, and the town fruit i'm still stalled on. it depends on if there's perfect fruit, and what that perfect fruit looks like. but i'm leaning more towards pears every day (which is a bit bizarre for me).
 
What fruit choices are there to be on your starting island?
after you pick your map, is everything else randomly generated and you have to re-set to get things that may be more ideal?
 
What fruit choices are there to be on your starting island?
after you pick your map, is everything else randomly generated and you have to re-set to get things that may be more ideal?

we've been shown apples, cherries, oranges, peaches, and pears which have always been native fruit types in previous games. there could be more added, but it's neither been confirmed nor denied so we all just assume it's only apples, cherries, oranges, peaches, and pears.

the airport colors, grass shape, native fruit, and villagers are all randomly generated after you've picked your map. if you wanted a specific type of these things you would have to reset to get it.

if you don't get your favorite fruit as your native fruit you can still plant it on your island. native fruit only really matters for perfect fruit, but we don't know if that's in this game. perfect fruit was introduced in animal crossing new leaf and you can only plant your native fruit as a perfect fruit. for example, if your native fruit is oranges you can only plant the orange perfect fruit. trying to plant a different perfect fruit wouldn't work out and the tree would die as a sapling.

villagers don't matter as much to reset for, especially since it seems we are limited to only getting one villager of the Uchi personality and one of the Jock personality. For each gender of animals (lady and dude) there are four personality types. Ladies have Uchi, Snooty, Normal, and Peppy while dudes have Jock, Lazy, Cranky, and Smug. villagers will randomly move in and out so if you don't have one you like at the start they can leave. (if you have a villager you want to keep if they ask to move out just say no. they don't always just up and leave on you but can).

grass shape is permanent and cannot be changed. there are only 3 types and each have a winter/snow varient (in winter your grass changes to snow). the circle grass shape changes to hexagons during winter, the square grass shape stays square during winter, and the triangle grass shape changes to stars during winter.

your airport is how you arrive at your island, and is how you send postcards to villagers and visit other people's islands. if i'm remembering correctly, there have only been 4 variations shown which are yellow, green, orange, and blue. it hasn't been confirmed nor denied if you can change the color yourself, and if there are more options other than those four.

edit: the tree, rock, and flower placement is all random as well. all generated maps are also randomized, so i guess literally everything is randomized. when you choose your map you can only seen how the island is itself, so like the beach and where rocks are placed on it, cliffs and how they're shaped, rivers and how they're shaped/where the end, and where the resident services is (resident services is basically your town hall and where you sell/buy things early game). when choosing the map only, i'd focus on where your rivers end at on the beach because those may not be something you can change later on.

i hope this helped, sorry it's a long post!! just wanted to help you out MiniPocketWorld <3
 
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