i was dumb and took the first map rover suggested to me bc i didnt know i could say no. i literally have 5 freaking ponds. i think you can make the center plaza work!
yeah i plot reset, 8/10 f my villagers are in the general location of each other on the bottom half of my map, and then other two are 2 spaces apart up top right by each other. i go crazy if my villagers ruin a path or something like that. ;-;
i'd say get your town started out first before you look into buying villagers. esp if you're gonna plot reset and time travel a LOT w/o taking extra caution.
if they ever do that again, exit the game, (you'll lose progress so be careful) and reload it up and ping them again, they should agree to move the second time. i've had to do that a few times. haha.
i literally move **** around until i'm not angry at it anymore. LOL...
you can visit my dream address if you want. i'm looking for ideas for the big ass empty spot by lucky's house bc i don't know what to do there at all. i just updated it today so it's as current as my progress is right now.