The Resetting Thread

Tinybillow said:

I'm new to the forum, but I've played animal crossing for years. I just actually opened up new leaf though, and I'm surprised just how annoying setting up your desired town is. I think I prefer the old games in this way. There are so many new variables, the chances of getting what you'd like are low, which is disheartening, especially if you're stubborn like me. I do understand what the devs were going for though, diversity. yet. *sigh* I'm pretty OCD about how my town layout is and have found myself settling, only to reset a week later because it was nagging at me and, in turn, my motivation plummets. (I know this isn't the case for most, but it is for me).

I think it would be nice, at the beginning, in the train, if Rover asked, (after telling him the name of your town) "What is (townname) like?" and then on the map your could drag around the buildings and the layout how you'd like with the stylus within some limits, or something of this nature, or at least but able to keep randomizing past four attempts.

Also, why not keep the "default" gray style train station and townhall at the beginning, and allow the player to "paint" it through tom nook later? It would be useful for certain themes. That blue train station is sooo.... awful. No offense to anyone who likes it, its just not my cup of tea. This random variable just makes me really frustrated.

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Brioche said:

Hi all, just needed a little input on this! I received my Japanese copy of the game and spent the whole day searching for a suitable town map. I finally got one that I was extremely satisfied with but the only issue is that it has tons of rocks (9 in total!).

A few of the rocks comes close to being in the way of pathing, although I could probably be creative with them. However the amount of rocks do tend to irk me a little. I know the chances of getting a similar map is slim so I'm uncertain if it's wise to reset in hopes of getting a better map. Any thoughts on this?

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Brioche said:

Hi all, just needed a little input on this! I received my Japanese copy of the game and spent the whole day searching for a suitable town map. I finally got one that I was extremely satisfied with but the only issue is that it has tons of rocks (9 in total!).

A few of the rocks comes close to being in the way of pathing, although I could probably be creative with them. However the amount of rocks do tend to irk me a little. I know the chances of getting a similar map is slim so I'm uncertain if it's wise to reset in hopes of getting a better map. Any thoughts on this?

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StarUrchin said:

Number one rule: Don't let the OCD take over you.

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dizzy bone said:

if I'm hoping to sell my town to Nook, can I still do the whole map resetting thing to choose a map? are you basically stuck with the first four maps rover provides you after you've sold your town? or does the selling town dialogue come back up after you reset? sorry if this question has been answered before :'D

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Requity said:

You can! Everything you need to know is in this post over on reddit.

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trafalgar said:

Hello everyone. I came here looking for some advice.

I have had my town and my game for around 3 years and have had the same town since then. However, stuff got out of hand and it's just incredibly messy. I've got no public projects, villager placement is horrible, the town map is even worse and since I have my storage full there's just a lot of stuff everywhere in town. I've tried to organize it more but I just can't find a way to make it look like I want to.

I tried to reset in the past, before going on a year long hiatus from the game. I can back wanting to play and get my town ready, only to see the reason I left in the first place: I just can't find a way to make it work.

The thing that's holding me back is that I have many villagers that are my dreamies and I don't want to let go. They are: Marshal, Merengue, Tia, Fuchsia, Olivia and Marina. I have Stitches as well but I have his amiibo card so I am not worried. The rest I don't have their cards. I also have so much stuff I want to save, and would need to find someone who can hoard it for me while I restart... And there is no one near me who plays this game, so it has to be someone online.

Here's my dream address if anyone wants to take a look at it: 5F00-0024-04DD. Any kind of input if whether or not I should reset it or if there's anything I can do to fix it is greatly appreciated.

I am desperate at this point �� I just want to have my dream Zen forest town.

Edit: I had thought about asking someone to lend me their 3DS and buy another copy of the game, but honestly I don't have money to spare at the moment and having to copies of the same seems kind of a waste for me. What can I do!?

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trafalgar said:

Hello everyone. I came here looking for some advice.

I have had my town and my game for around 3 years and have had the same town since then. However, stuff got out of hand and it's just incredibly messy. I've got no public projects, villager placement is horrible, the town map is even worse and since I have my storage full there's just a lot of stuff everywhere in town. I've tried to organize it more but I just can't find a way to make it look like I want to.

I tried to reset in the past, before going on a year long hiatus from the game. I can back wanting to play and get my town ready, only to see the reason I left in the first place: I just can't find a way to make it work.

The thing that's holding me back is that I have many villagers that are my dreamies and I don't want to let go. They are: Marshal, Merengue, Tia, Fuchsia, Olivia and Marina. I have Stitches as well but I have his amiibo card so I am not worried. The rest I don't have their cards. I also have so much stuff I want to save, and would need to find someone who can hoard it for me while I restart... And there is no one near me who plays this game, so it has to be someone online.

Here's my dream address if anyone wants to take a look at it: 5F00-0024-04DD. Any kind of input if whether or not I should reset it or if there's anything I can do to fix it is greatly appreciated.

I am desperate at this point �� I just want to have my dream Zen forest town.

Edit: I had thought about asking someone to lend me their 3DS and buy another copy of the game, but honestly I don't have money to spare at the moment and having to copies of the same seems kind of a waste for me. What can I do!?

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trafalgar said:

Hello everyone. I came here looking for some advice.

I have had my town and my game for around 3 years and have had the same town since then. However, stuff got out of hand and it's just incredibly messy. I've got no public projects, villager placement is horrible, the town map is even worse and since I have my storage full there's just a lot of stuff everywhere in town. I've tried to organize it more but I just can't find a way to make it look like I want to.

I tried to reset in the past, before going on a year long hiatus from the game. I can back wanting to play and get my town ready, only to see the reason I left in the first place: I just can't find a way to make it work.

The thing that's holding me back is that I have many villagers that are my dreamies and I don't want to let go. They are: Marshal, Merengue, Tia, Fuchsia, Olivia and Marina. I have Stitches as well but I have his amiibo card so I am not worried. The rest I don't have their cards. I also have so much stuff I want to save, and would need to find someone who can hoard it for me while I restart... And there is no one near me who plays this game, so it has to be someone online.

Here's my dream address if anyone wants to take a look at it: 5F00-0024-04DD. Any kind of input if whether or not I should reset it or if there's anything I can do to fix it is greatly appreciated.

I am desperate at this point I just want to have my dream Zen forest town.

Edit: I had thought about asking someone to lend me their 3DS and buy another copy of the game, but honestly I don't have money to spare at the moment and having to copies of the same seems kind of a waste for me. What can I do!?

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• before you start fiddling around with anything, it's time to PLAN. ignoring completely the current placements of movable buildings, focus on yr ideal plan for where both PWP and villager homes might go. be flexible. if you think the map and landmark (river, beaches, rocks, town plaza, etc.) placements are salvageable, put in the work. if they aren't salvageable, now you gotta figure out how to transfer over most of yr ***** to a new town (not ideal) or nuke from orbit and start again. i would suggest the latter if you're feeling things aren't salvageable.

• first things first, you gotta prep for a revamp of yr entire town, which means making your town as close to a bare canvas as possible without completely decimating your ecosystem
• to assist with getting your town's landscaping in check, i would HIGHLY suggest making a secondary character that exists solely as a place to store fruits and flowers if you have the space in your town. don't bother upgrading anything, just stick the plot as close as you can to the train station to make trips shorter between yr storage locker. minimize the number of trees the plot knocks down when you place it
• go through your village and gather ALL the fruit from ALL the trees one by one. stack em, then stuff em in yr storage locker.
• go through your village and gather ALL the flowers you can. stuff em in your storage locker.
• WEED EVERYTHING
• take a break when you're done!

• now that you've got all your landscaping needs "backed up", you can start organizing your items
• i would HIGHLY recommend at this point making as many secondary characters as you can to give you additional storage locker space without needing to purchase the secret storage for your main character's home. it also gives you a convenient way to organize items by type, style, theme, value, rarity, etc.
• go through your town and organize yr stuff outside. don't worry about the stuff in yr main characters locker yet, just focus on getting the litter taken care of so you can start to improve your town rating.
• USE A SYSTEM! it doesn't matter what the system is or how you organize things, just do it sensibly to you. it's your stuff.
• keep anything that isn't reorderable through the catalog in the shop
• keep anything that you want to use in your home as soon as your items are organized. anything that is orderable via catalog and not a priority for your immediate interior design needs, sell it. you can always buy it back through the catalog later.
• take a breather when you're done, this ***** is tedious work!

• now that you have the two more pressing concerns out of the way, you can focus on the parts of the game that are actually kind of enjoyable: building public works projects and your villagers.
• if there are any villagers that you absolutely cannot live without, yet hate their home placement, you gotta realize that something's gotta give. you might have luck partnering up with someone on TBT forums and having them shuffle villagers back and forth between your village and their village (initiated by amiibo cards to force out villagers). that would require a lot of legwork of at least two people, though, and you might be better off just getting your dreamies again through the forum via giveaways/trades/paying for them. that's your call, though
• if it were me, and i were dead set on getting my dreamies that i have now in the perfect positions, i would likely either get my town to 100% approval rating, get the ability to set ordinances, set the Keep Town Beautiful ordinance, then cycle 3-6mos forward in time with every leap for 6-12 leaps to have my villagers cycled out and have the 16 villager cycle requirement met AND get some villagers that others might want to trade for. or i'd just start buying their amiibo cards and go from there.

Khei said:

I just restarted my town.

I've had the same town for years. After a long hiatus.. Like years.. I had lost all the villagers I liked. Walt and Lobo in particular.. Even my stalker, Mott, moved away.

I coukd never get Peck to move away and I hated him for replacing Lobo.

Long story short, I hated my town and wanted a fresh start.

If you've had your town for a long while, Tom Nook makes it worth your while. He'll BUY your town and transfer the funds to your new town. I started my new town with 14 MILLION BELLS!!

I started my new town, like the new layout, and even have Wolfgang as one of my new Villagers. So far I'm glad to have restarted.

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Requity said:

The town selling feature is pretty cool! What are you going to do with all those bells? It should be enough to fully upgrade your house and build some PWPs right off the bat.

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