So I stopped playing New Leaf for a very long time, ever since I missed my deadline to finish my town before cherry blossom season 2017, and also 2018. And this year, I picked my game up again and got addicted, and figured I'd try to make the deadline AGAIN. I've been working really hard on it, but there's just soooo much left to do! I don't know why I have it in my head that I HAVE to finish my town while the cherry blossoms are in season.. I guess I just like having the two different coloured trees, vs having everything be uniform during all the other seasons. I have less than 10 days to finish.. And I have 3 other player houses that need to be COMPLETELY decorated. My mayor's house is pretty much done though.. But every time I try to sit down and finish the other interiors.. I feel tired. I've been going ham on landscaping and PWPs and now working on moving in the villagers that I need via amiibo card. But the interiors make me burnt out just THINKING about it.. Having to buy all the furniture and transfer them between towns (I time travel in my boyfriend's abandoned town so that I can get all my furniture orders quicker in order to make my deadline and then pick it up there). And having to open every single mail, then unwrap everything, and toss the mail.. It's all very tedious. I don't want to give up, but I feel like I am.
Does anyone else set deadlines and get sad when they don't meet them?
For Moriyo Village, I used to set deadlines so that I could update the dream. Can't do that anymore :/
But my deadlines would be at like the end of the month or week, in real time, and they would be small goals such as 'clean up Kasumi's house' 'decorate Azrielle's house' 'do more landscaping in this bitty area'. They would all be small cause 1 most of it was done anyway and 2 I didn't always have time to sit down for hours on end and play to completion. Even with TTing (which reading your post I get the feeling you don't do) it's not easy to get goals done. Our lives make us busy.
When I get home from work and play ACNL, I get really tired. I'll be moslty fine before I play, but after a while I just get t i r e d. I think it's the screen but still. This quickly ends with me powering off and going to sleep.
I never got really disappointed, cause ACNL is meant to be a slower paced game, it's not about rush and stress. You play ACNL to get away from that. Yeah planning a town is meticulous and can be stressful, but at the end of the day, it's meant to be relaxing. I try to not let it get to me too much.
I personally never set deadlines in my town, I just instead had objectives that I did whenever they worked best like "turn all paths into pattern & clover paths." I think the key to enjoying New Leaf is to just go with the flow and the only deadlines you should be worrying about is trades you committed to other people.
Wow, I've never even considered setting deadlines to finish my stuff. i just did everything leisurely. It makes sense why i never finished any of my towns but I'd rather just chill out and do things as i pleased since its a way for me to escape reality.
Like MasterM64, I set small goals or objectives and I don't put a timeline on them. I work on them whenever I feel like it or have the time. That way I don't get stressed out. I would hate to put so much pressure on myself in a game that I play to escape real world stress and pressure.
But with that said, I am in a somewhat similar situation right now. I was almost done with my landscaping and wanted to finish it in time to upload my completed DA during cherry blossom season. Well, I've met that goal, but the problem is I'm missing a villager. I'm down to 9 and was hoping to find a good 10th villager in my campsite, but it's been a few weeks and that hasn't happened. And it'll take a few days for a new villager to get plotted and settled in, so I'm cutting it close. But if I miss the cherry blossom season for an update, I'm not going to let it upset me. I'll just update whenever I'm ready.
I stopped playinf acnl for a while too, I only have 8 villagers so I don't worry about stitches and rod leaving anytime soon either.
And yes I did try having "goals" but honestly it kinda impeded complete enjoyment from playing due to stressing out on where to put and what to do about things.
I never set deadlines when it comes to finish something. If I wanted to change something in my
town, I took as long time as needed to do the changes. When it comes to upload my town on
the dream suite, then I upload it even if my town is not finished, as I think my town is never
finished in such a way where I could say "Yeah, all done". There is always something I change
later and my town's look change quite a few times, whatever it's planting the trees different
or new villagers moved in. Besides, the only goal at that point is that my town looks like a town
and not kinda like a big mess, lol.
I don’t set deadlines; I just play. Honestly, it makes me sad to hear that someone is stressing out about Animal Crossing. I mean, what would Luna say?
Yes, I suppose I'm just making it difficult for myself.. I should stop putting pressure on myself and just enjoy it. I guess I just didn't want to wait a whole year again, before uploading my dream town. But maybe it'll look just as good in any other season. Autumn is definitely gorgeous too.
I completely understand the deadlines thing, like the first day of the month I HAVE to get all of the new critters (I just started my third town), and if I don't reach my self-imposed deadlines, then I just. Stop playing, for the most part. I think last time I played one of my other towns, it was the Bunny Festival and I didn't get all of the furniture, so I stopped playing because it would be incomplete for a whole year, and that thought stresses me out. I'm trying to be more mellow on this time around though!
Mostly I do agree and see what other posters have said, about just playing naturally. But sometimes it works positively to me as I'm generally busy with craps in real life, and yet I'm pretty lazy personality. So if I play just normally, what I want to finish is NEVER going to finish to be real. So, like theme challenge during the last Christmas event, setting the deadline and having to finish it up till then no matter what makes me staying consistent for a while, if it's not too long while though.
So I stopped playing New Leaf for a very long time, ever since I missed my deadline to finish my town before cherry blossom season 2017, and also 2018. And this year, I picked my game up again and got addicted, and figured I'd try to make the deadline AGAIN. I've been working really hard on it, but there's just soooo much left to do! I don't know why I have it in my head that I HAVE to finish my town while the cherry blossoms are in season.. I guess I just like having the two different coloured trees, vs having everything be uniform during all the other seasons. I have less than 10 days to finish.. And I have 3 other player houses that need to be COMPLETELY decorated. My mayor's house is pretty much done though.. But every time I try to sit down and finish the other interiors.. I feel tired. I've been going ham on landscaping and PWPs and now working on moving in the villagers that I need via amiibo card. But the interiors make me burnt out just THINKING about it.. Having to buy all the furniture and transfer them between towns (I time travel in my boyfriend's abandoned town so that I can get all my furniture orders quicker in order to make my deadline and then pick it up there). And having to open every single mail, then unwrap everything, and toss the mail.. It's all very tedious. I don't want to give up, but I feel like I am.
Does anyone else set deadlines and get sad when they don't meet them?
Yes I do! All the time. Yes it?s disappointing but it makes it easier to make realistic goals.