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How do you keep your game interesting?

I currently have five towns, so...that helps keep things pretty interesting. Beyond that, I try to not play TOO long each day. I set smallish goals for myself for each day, so I don't do too much at once. It helps me to not get overwhelmed and keeps me playing.

Beyond that, re-landscaping and redesigning my characters houses also works.
 
Although my current town is quite new (created when my account here was created), I have been playing ACNL since 2014. Town development is fun to do and meeting people online and playing with them is fun, especially in summer. The idea of creating back-stories is fun, and sometimes I pair my villagers together... Anyways, animal crossing is a beautiful franchise and everyone in the fandom are wonderful people. Thank you for not keeping me bored and alone.
 
i always landscape! pick a flower, surround my villagers houses in neat rows
also i do tours when i start to get bored or lowkey watch tv while looking for requests from villagers !
 
Sometimes, I have an idea how to change a certain part of my town, I just start then and try to
implement the idea. I do also landscaping often or create a new character and build up the new
house of this character.
 
i legit can't anymore... the 3ds game is so lacking in terms of content in speech that it's almost as bad as city folk. i love talking to villagers in wild world and gamecube, but trying to gather the energy to hear some villager say the exact same line for the 83rd time this hour makes me unable to play it

also, my friends i used to play with don't play it anymore- so there's no inspiration to play it from a socialisation perspective!
 
I've finished but if I recall, I always liked to change things, and play on the island it was always a different experience on the island every time.
 
I gave my main town a dream address so I'm now thinking of ways to improve it since I know people may visit. That alone keeps me coming back daily. I also have multiple towns, so that keeps me going back to one or another to collect stuff and landscape and make sure no one is moving out. I did take a 4-6 week break from all my video games this spring because of life things, but I came back to my towns ready to play again. Sometimes a break helps.
 
I start new towns and each one has a different theme. I spend time going between towns, landscaping, plotting villagers and enjoying everything from the newest ones to the older ones. Occasionally, I will move villagers from one town to another so they can all circulate and become well traveled, lol.
 
I got a terrible habit of constantly resetting my town so that keeps it going for me. I'll play for hundreds of hours then see something online and it'll give me inspiration to make a new town with a new theme and a story behind it. I've easily had over 10 towns but it keeps it interesting and playable for me.
 
I have a bunch of ?lore? for my town and interact with my animals a lot! Ive been tweaking some things in my house, working on my gold badges (only 8 left!) and I?ve been wifi-ing with a guy I?m talking to quite a lot which is fun. I always find something new to do when playing!!
 
I let animals move out. I have my favourites, of course, and I'd love all of them to stay forever, but I find that villager movement adds new blood to my town and motivates me to landscape around the new houses, maybe move a bridge etc.
 
Wow I'm so happy people are still replying to this! You all gave me so many great ideas :)
 
I tend to do these:

Visit detailed towns on the Dream Suite.

Play island tours, especially the hide-and-seek and hammer tours.

Work on badges (except for Streetpass, which I will likely never get - RIP, blank spot on my TPC. RIP.)

Visit Club LOL.

Talk to my villagers and make cute stories to go with their personality/friendships/etc.
 
Really for me the draw at the time was from active friends who cared about me. It's hard to make new friends on the forums and actually start creating bonds, people don't really seem to take it seriously. But the friends I had back then were truly good friends and they supported me a lot, turning on the game felt more like going to my friends than actually playing a game.
 
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By setting crazy goals like landscaping every inch of my town, covering my island with hybrids, coral and clovers, earning all the badges and making each character house I have look unique. I also decorate my museum rooms and try to fill my villagers' houses with furniture I like.
 
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