Do you play casually? Or are you hardcore about everything in the game?

[Marceline]

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I'm quite casual about the game. I won't rush to get my house fully expanded, get all badges, all fish, insects, items, etc. Unless I really want an item, I'll go hardcore beetle hunting for some cash, but other than that... no :s
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[Pichu]

I'm pretty casual actually

 

[hijessicarose]

In the middle, but leaning towards the Hardcore side. I'm hardcore about my dream villagers and decorating my town. I really want to make a good dream village (still in progress!) cause I'd like for people to see my hard work pay off c:
I used to collect bugs/fish etc like crazy cause I wanted to complete the whole thing but I got side-tracked by other stuff haha.
Yeah finding my dream villagers and planning my town accordingly can be pretty draining, decorating my town is how I have most of my fun in the game. So idk if it's really hardcore or not. xD

 

[Saphy]

I suppose pretty casual, I've been slacking off on getting bells recently and I've never really been too bothered about completing my encyclopaedias.

 

[0ni]

I can be pretty hardcore about aspects of the game. When I started my second town I ended up resetting for my "perfect" town map for about 7-8 hours altogether (kind of wish I was joking but I was always sure - when I saw a map that was pretty good - that I could get better and better so I ended up watching movies and listening to podcasts whilst resetting over and over across a period of two days. I ended up getting (In my opinion) a pretty great map but I still think that my resetting binge was unnecessary. Oh well.

I also TT because I can play games for ages (especially when they are first released) and I couldn't bear playing it in real time.
There are other aspects I am pretty obsessed with such as filling the museum, covering my town in paths and hybrids, getting golden tools etc. One thing I am not as bothered about that I feel is something I will just work at slowly is completing my catalogue. I am also not too bothered about HHA points (at the moment, I feel that will change).

At the moment I am trying to get my dream villagers and that has included resetting a number of times for the "right" camper. I also reset so that villager houses are in the right place in relation to my paths.

In relation to getting bells: I went beetle hunting quite a few times at the beginning. I filled the ATM with about 5mil and stopped at that. I find that I make plenty from from selling fossils/furniture/fruit everyday.


TL;DR I reset too goddamn much.

 

[modernreptile]

I'm like everyone else... somewhere in the middle of casual and hardcore.

I'm not concerned about paying off my loans or PWPs, but I like collecting items and completing my catalog & museum, so I'm more focused on that right now. I like earning bells to buy furniture, but I haven't been to the Island in weeks. I make sure to talk to all of my neighbors (trying to collect pictures), but I haven't written any letters to them. I don't have a lot of time to play during the week, but when I do, I play in 3hr+ marathon sessions. Plus, I TT backwards to make up for the days I've missed, so I'm currently still in early July in my game.

The one thing I am pretty obsessed about is watering all of my flowers and regrow some of my grass, but I don't have any paths and probably won't lay any down

 

[RisingSun]

Like the OP, about the only thing I obsess over is what animals I meet. I have a card system that I put together to keep track of each character, especially coffee preferences, although that may expand a little. I also have cards for hybrids per species and personalities (I am working out sleep times right now, and hopefully will soon add what their house says when they are asleep. I also have a card for the week's turnip prices.

 

[Cobby]

Casual leaning a towards the hard-core side I guess... I did reset until I found ?the perfect map? and a decent face (i didn?t think about looking for a face guide on the internet!), I?ve dabbled over in the Retail Board buying missing furniture pieces of a particular sets and the final fossils for my museum, planned out how my town will look with what projects will go where, all trees and flowers separated on type and location (i.e. temperate, tropical etc), have all the fruit trees and have them in bundles of 6 in special areas and I have paved my town... A place for everything and everything in its place!

 

[ClefairyKid]

QUITE HARDCORE YES <3

ALL THE CROSSINGGG!!!! :'D

 

[Balgosa]

I thought I was casual, I maybe log in 3 hours a day though which kinda puts me on the fence now

 

[Lykke]

I am (was?) hardcore when it comes to landscaping, I like everything to be just the way I want! I can spend hours and hours on just planting trees, planting bushes, growing hybrids. Speaking about hybrids, that is also a passion of mine in the game, I love to garden and see new flowers blossom! ^_^ I used to be one of those would ask people for an opinion about my map etc. but I realized it's not about what other people think, but about you! If you get a great feeling about your map when you start up your game; you're on the right track ... went a little bit off track myself, there. But now, after that I restarted, I'm actually just playing 1 hour or and half a day which is a drastic change from before ... trust me, you don't even want to know how much I used to play, and I like taking it nice and easy. There is no need to rush, I think.

 

[Burumun]

I'd say I'm somewhere in between now. I think I was pretty hardcore in the beginning, and I set myself a goal of paying off a home loan a day (which I did accomplish), as well as trying to catch all of the fish and bugs and get a decent amount of money. Currently, I'm just sort of working on perfecting my town (planting trees and flowers) and getting a bunch of badges, but the former is taking time because I don't want to harvest my perfect oranges from each tree more than once and the latter I'm too lazy to seriously work on at the moment.

 

[ChaosKitten]

I'm in-between. I reset a few times for a couple hours each to get one certain villager in the campsite, although I never did find her there, lol. I also reset to get villagers houses where I want them. Otherwise I'm mostly casual about it. I'm in no rush to get all the furniture and clothing I want and I'm not super hardcore about getting bugs I still need since I have 2-3 months to hopefully stumble across them through dumb luck, lol.

 

[Zero7STARZ]

I'd say I'm more hard core obsessed with playing animal crossing, than I am hard core about animal crossing. I chill and zone out catching bugs, watering flowers, and catching bugs. I just kinda like hanging over at my villagers houses, and having them over. It gives me a chance to figure out what furniture I wanna give them to go with their place, so were all good friends. They all like the museum but they wish it had more stuff, so I make sure to donate what I know we need. Our flowers are beautiful, but I just kinda grouped similar flowers together around PWPs, and just kinda happened. And I don't do anything serious for money, I just collect fruit while I play tour games on the island.

The money, and progression, has just kinda developed on its own, after tons of hours of game play lol. I guess tons of game time is my only real hard core habit.

I do have a little bit of strategy going on, but its only ever one or two steps ahead.

 

[BellGreen]

I'm in between, but I'm more hardcore. I'm going to use a really cool pattern set with the river and the tile (you probably saw it on pixlr) and I made a pattern dummy for that purpose. I'm more casual for my town though. When I'm hardcore, it's what do with the town and my villagers.

 

[MadisonCrossing]

To be honest, I think I'm in between. The only thing I think I might be a little hardcore about are my villagers, sometimes my town map, and villager pictures, since those are the main reasons I reset towns (Well, the first two). But with my current town I am satisfied with the layout, my villagers, etc. I love everyone in my town and I don't think I could have gotten a better map!
I don't really understand why people like to trade so much either. I've never done it, although I will if I manage to find a rare piece of furniture that I think someone will like. I'm not interested in trading villagers, since I don't think there's a point to trading them to get ones you like. Sure, that's a benefit, but if they ask to move and you want to keep them you will always have to say no. I like the change of new villagers and I'm always excited to see who I'll get; I don't like knowing. I guess I'm a surprise person then? But yeah, everyone's different and some villagers almost convince me to trade for them!
About villager pictures, I think I can be hardcore about that too because I have never obtained villager pictures on New Leaf! I want to have everyone's picture before they move, so I always keep villagers in my town until I get their picture (I will, at least). No one has asked to move though, so I'm good with that!

 

[Lurrdoc]

Probably more hardcore than casual.

 

[Breesasha]

I am a bit in-between, I'm not for resetting the game or spending HOURS obsessing over one little part. I usually break up my playing time into two groups (morning and evening). During the morning I sell any fruit that's grown, visit the cafe, talk to my neighbors, check the mail and the stores to see if I want anything, collect, assess, and sell fossils, and plant flowers/trees. That takes up a bit of time. I am trying to get a perfect town (I need 6 more public works projects, more trees, and more flowers) and finish expanding my home.

 

[Isabella]

I guess I'll say I'm somewhat in between casual and hardcore with this game. Lately, I've been playing really casual for some reason. Usually when I play wayyy too much at a time, I just get bored of it and play less; only to check up on villagers, do a few chores and stuff like that. My town is messy right now and I just don't have the motivation to fix it up. I might have burned out the fun for time travelling so much and doing everything so fast. But really, this feeling just comes and goes. I'm pretty sure in a few days I'll get back to playing for hours straight and work on getting a perfect town again.

 

[ChibiSylph]

Just casual, all I do is water my flowers and clean up my town. Donate fossils, work on my house and do boring stuff.
The most "hardcore" thing I do is sell villagers lol.