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I recently restarted my island and just unlocked terraforming, I'm having some trouble setting down paths for my entrance because my resident services is one space off from being symmetrical with my airport.
Originally I was going to use "the path" which would've made things a lot easier, but I miss hearing the sounds of the in-game paths so I opted to use them instead.
I want to keep terraforming to a minimum and not mess with my original map too much, so I don't want to just cover up resident services with a huge cliff or something. (But I do like the look of adding small cliffs around to add dimension!)
Please help!!
 

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my airport was just a few off from being symmetrical, and because of this, i said screw it altogether. i put a river between my entryway and the resident services plaza, and made a bridge to the left of that. so that when people come to visit, they have to use the bridge to "enter" my island area. i put a two-tier cliff in front of the resident services with a waterfall into the river that separates my airport and resident services, so that instead of seeing an off-put building, you see a nice landscape of nature when arriving instead.

it's better than just a normal cliff, in my opinion, but still might not be what you're looking for. i hope it gives you some new ideas, though.
 
I would do something simple, like a curvy pathway towards resident service in order to give the sense of depth I like very much natural looking islands so I would maybe do like a middle size mountain in the right side of airpot and the plaza service adapted to that curvy path and decorated with mush stool, wood stool, stone, trees etc.

I dont know if i was able to transmit the image of what i imagen in my head 🙈 .

What ever you end up doing upload a photo so we can see your creative and what beautiful entrance you end up doing 🤩
 
I am currently re-doing my island with the cliff you don't want, but what I did the first time is similar to @6iixx I had room for Able Sisters and Nooks in front of town center so I put them there then a river with room for a path along the bottom bit of the map and the airport was just one of the offsets of that path. I hope that makes sense. I realized this morning that I didn't have a screenshot of mt original terraforming otherwise I would show you
 
You could also try a forest path that slightly curves, hugged by dense trees, then put some lights here and there to bring aesthetics. It would suit the spooky arch in front of your resident services anyway.

I have the same problem except mine is even more unaligned so it looks weird no matter what I do with it. It helped slightly to put like one mini rounded cliff on the side with a little waterfall leading to the ocean, sort of. :unsure:
 
the separation between the cliffs is a very nice touch to your airport walkway. i love the fencing and hedges you worked in there as well! <3
 
buginski said:
I recently restarted my island and just unlocked terraforming, I'm having some trouble setting down paths for my entrance because my resident services is one space off from being symmetrical with my airport.
Originally I was going to use "the path" which would've made things a lot easier, but I miss hearing the sounds of the in-game paths so I opted to use them instead.
I want to keep terraforming to a minimum and not mess with my original map too much, so I don't want to just cover up resident services with a huge cliff or something. (But I do like the look of adding small cliffs around to add dimension!)
Please help!!
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I have (had) the exact same map as you !!
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Actually there are some tiny differences with mine like the peninsula, the dock length and the beach rocks. But everything thing else was exactly the same : the ponds, the cliffs, the secret beach and of course the one square off plaza 🤪

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This was my map at the beginning of the game. This is poor quality but we can see the details.

But I didn't hesitate to erect a cliff in front to hide it as much as I could ahah

If you want I can invite you someday (I didn't put my town on Dream Suite yet) to see what I have done so far :)

I tried to keep the original rivers and cliffs, to a lesser extent.


Edit: My airport is also yellow 🧐 Was your native fruit cherry ?
 
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Aardbei said:
I have (had) the exact same map as you !!
Post automatically merged:

Actually there are some tiny differences with mine like the peninsula, the dock length and the beach rocks. But everything thing else was exactly the same : the ponds, the cliffs, the secret beach and of course the one square off plaza 🤪

View attachment 326899
This was my map at the beginning of the game. This is poor quality but we can see the details.

But I didn't hesitate to erect a cliff in front to hide it as much as I could ahah

If you want I can invite you someday (I didn't put my town on Dream Suite yet) to see what I have done so far :)

I tried to keep the original rivers and cliffs, to a lesser extent.


Edit: My airport is also yellow 🧐 Was your native fruit cherry ?
Click to expand...

I think the beach features and airport/fruits are the only things that are randomized actually! My native fruit are pears.
 
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