Anyone else tempted to reset?

[bam94-]

Never. I don’t think there’s any such thing as perfect. I’d rather have an island I obtained “organically” and made my own with imperfections, rather than constantly feel that everything has to be perfect and feel stressed the second something isn’t!

 

[kyrynbunni]

I've been tempted to reset because of the river mouths and where resident services is as I didn't know you couldn't change those, but I'm weary about it because of how far I've gotten in the game. I've made resident services work and I'm trying to make the rivers work without resetting :v

 

[N a t]

I’ve had the game since release and i’ve been playing since then. But when I unlocked terraforming, I quickly found out that the river mouths can’t be changed and I think that’s really gonna bother me especially with the places that they’re in. Now I also hate my island name, and I wish Nintendo gave us the opinion to change it at any time lol. But i’ve worked so hard to get my dreamies and items, that I don’t want to lose my progress.

Anyone else tempted?

I didn't even see your thread and literally just posted my own reset thread lol! Yeah, I've got over 350 hours in my game right now but I'm just having my girlfriend hold some stuff for me and I'm about to reset. I just don't like the way I played through this island and I want change. I wanna play differently. So, here I go!

 

[Taishan]

I’m tempted daily as well, especially since the weird positions of my resident services building and other spots, are making it hard for me to figure out a design for my island. But, even though I don’t have my Dreamies, I have enough items and DIYs that I love that keeps me from destroying it all.

 

[Annika.]

Not really. Every map has its pros and its cons and when you face one problem you'd rather work with something else, but I think if you think like this you're just going to reset forever. And imho working with your problems will make for a much better looking island with good details.

But for me, river outlets and name are very legit reasons to restart. You can go back in time to your inital date and when quickly play the day-to-day life and work yourself towards today. I think that's very reasonable, especially if you have a lot of freetime right now. I restartedtwice for different reasons, but I won't have this much freetime for a long time. I rather just stick with what I have now and understand my personal choices, like making things convienent for you instead of copying a pretty layout exactly. My town hall is considered to be in a bad spot, but it suits my needs of being close to the airport and being able to create an inner city right above it. It's not perfect, but I can make it pretty good.

 

[Saralie]

I hit a point where I really wanted to reset. Still do from time to time. But I've invested way too much in my current island. I love all my villagers, I have all the DIYs, I would lose all my precious NMT. Just not worth it. I spend a lot of time looking at other island maps, watching YouTube videos, etc. to try to give me ideas on how to make what I have work. I also had some friends with established islands come and visit mine and give me targeted suggestions for one thing to work on at a time so I don't get overwhelmed. I came across a Twitter account where she rebuilt her island square by square. My main issue is I am terrible at terraforming and get very frustrated with it. I'm sure with time and practice I'll improve. I've got 500 hours into the game and only started reworking my island this week. I was so overwhelmed by terraforming and perfectionism that it had kept me from doing anything to my island.

 

[kojuuro]

I mostly dislike the placement of my resident services but that's cause I wanted to terraform my entrance which is too close to the resident services to really do anything with it... I've put in so many hours and have a lot of villagers I love so I can't bring myself to reset.

 

[Lurrdoc]

I feel you on the river mouths thing. Sucks. Other than river mouths being inconvenient. I haven't felt the need to reset. I'm content with my island so far and am looking forward to what else I can make happen with it.

 

[Bioness]

I'm mostly tempted by my Island name. Idk what you mean about the river mouths. People have made a 1 layer town with no rivers via terraforming.

My friend is restarting tho (she doesnt know why), I see the appeal, this is what happens with games that are given rich content after everyone has already been playing for a while.

River mouths are the openings of the rivers into the ocean. Those cannot be moved as you cannot terraform rocks or the beach,

 

[Globes216]

I was tempted but now I’m not. I kind of regretted TTing a bit to get my dreamies because I promised myself I wouldn’t and would just go through day by day getting whatever villagers and if any were my dreamies I’d be happy but now I’m glad I did this. I haven’t TT’ed since I got them all and am still fine to let some of them leave even. I just couldn’t restart because of all the seasonal DIYS etc I have which I couldn’t get again for a year and stuff

 

[soomi]

I've never actually thought of resetting. mostly because I finally completed my collection of mom clothes/items surfing every trading forum

Although I'm not a big fan of my map or my orange airport, I can't imagine doing everything over again. The thought of it makes me so anxious

 

[That Marshal Fangirl]

Sometimes I contemplate resetting, since I wasn’t thinking about airport colors when choosing my map. I also didn’t pay too much attention to the general design, since I thought you could change everything. However, I’ve already gotten all my dream villagers, a ton of DIYs, and a pretty decent catalog. I keep reminding myself that my island is very new and has lots of potential as well, so all of these factors combined have convinced me to stick with it.

 

[Feraligator]

I had that teeny tiny temptation yesterday when decorating my entrance–my town hall is ridiculously close to my airport (like 5 tiles?) but it's gone away again because I've managed to decorate it to my liking a bit.

I still miss my very first NL town that I reset which was 7 years ago now. I love my NL town now, but will never forget the chills I got when visiting through the dream suite. Don't want to make that mistake again, so I'll be keeping this island forever!

 

[0orchid]

As a reformed reset addict from every previous version of the game... yes lol. I never plan on it though because for me it turns into a cycle and I just want a save file I keep since release date for the first time because I haven't done that on gamecube, wild world, city folk, or new leaf. At some point I hope I can get a switch lite so I can do whatever with a 2nd island on there though. Also the beginner tutorial mode is sooo annoying to me, I kind of don't want to do that ever again now!

 

[Dobby30]

I was 300 hours in and had my whole town built but realized I wasn’t happy because I wanted an entrance that had a central square that split into a N,E,W going to different sections of my island. My RS was centered and 10 blocks from the entrance which is ideal for some but it didn’t fit my vision.

In the end, my friend held onto 3 of my villagers and several items I really wanted to keep. I gave the rest away and did the reset.

It’s been a lot of fun catching back up and I just unlocked terraforming a few days ago and am completely satisfied with my new entrance. No regrets. But having a friend hold onto my money and resources made it so much easier to catch back up.

 

[Disneyfangirl23]

I actually am thinking of restarting again~