Debating getting back into this game (again)

[Bufuman]

So I'm feeling the urge to get back into this game for the third time. After I first got the game and spent about a year playing it, eventually it fell off my list of daily tasks. About 2 years later, I decided to start playing it again and started a new town from scratch. But sadly, that only lasted about 3 months, and it's been almost a year since then (last time I played was on 5/22 according to my old wordpad file of important ACNL notes). Now I want to see if I can get back into it.

Main thing I'm wondering is if I should just load up and start at the current date (I last saved/quit after refusing to let a resident move out, so I've still got the villagers down in my sig despite being gone a year; I checked with a new character just to be sure) or set my 3DS back to the day after I stopped playing and rush back up to the current day one at a time for a couple weeks (playing just long enough each in-game day to check the shops and moving rumors). The former would be a LOT easier but the latter would give me opportunities to get more dreamies and events and fish/bugs and all that other stuff. What do you all think?

 

[carp]

load on the current date cause the villager chat is wild

 

[katysu]

Goodness I don't know - depends on the -ves/+ves of each & what is important to you.

To go on with current date: - from what you say your villagers will all be there, if you were not on beautiful ordinance you will lose flowers (any imp hybrids?)/have weeds (tho I think the latter a bonus wrt to possibly of getting Lief).


To take the game back to where you left off: You will be in the past out of sync with other players, and you have to decide how you will change time - either with the system clock & then load the game or with Isabelle at the front screen.
What season were you in, any events coming up that you would like to do (August fireworks often forgotten - as I'm into feng sui I try for the miniature car).

Either way the update is possible to get - you don't have to be on the right date to download it. Free to update, & brings a lot to the game includes two mini games that are not that easy, well one definitely isn't, I'm struggling (the tetris type one).

 

[Bufuman]

Decided to start out on the day after I quit, and if I get sick of playing catch up, I can just refuse another move and zip up to the current date.

Started off with a scare though, with one of my residents telling me that Punchy wanted to move, but thankfully I found him outside and got him to ping me so I could tell him to forget it.

 

[katysu]

Great - sounds you know exactly what you are doing and as you say if you want to, you can with precautions in place, move to the current date. Ah - can't lose Punchy!

I take breaks every so often, but I've never entirely given up, I've played an ac game since 2006, and can't see me stopping, its got a charm and a pull all of its own, can't resist it.

 

[bestfriendsally]

i was thinking of playing after a long time, as well.... i really should, cause i haven't finished a few of my houses... & i want to move a house too....
i can't be bothered, though ^^'

 

[Chrysopal]

I'm thinking I'll get back into NL too