Have any of you reset your island yet?

[Gwen Jones]

I’m not talking about resetting at the beginning for a certain fruit/airport colour etc. I mean like FULLY RESET.

I reset just the other week and I’m seriously considering it again haha. I blame lockdown

Oh, good idea.. will try to reset it too

 

[moonolotl]

In New Leaf i reset about a month in and i really regret it because i just felt so detached from the new town. Because of this, im refusing to reset in NH despite how much I may want to. Everything can be fixed in my eyes, it just takes motivation for me to do it

 

[Lilyacre]

I haven't but I feel tempted to.

I really like my town. The villagers are cute, I got the fruit I wanted, but I just have this niggling feeling to reset. I think it's because it feels so refreshing to start over from scratch. I planned my town in advance and I've spent days teraforming to get it how I want it. Maybe I've just burnt out a bit. When you do so much teraforming and building up the town, you start to miss the simple undeveloped town you start with. Does that make sense?

I'm trying to hold off because I know I'll regret it if I do reset. There's nothing wrong with my town, I just love that starting fresh feeling.

 

[.....]

yep. i transferred over 400 items to a friends island then redid mine because after unlocking terraforming i realized i wanted a map with rivers both ending at the front. i dont regret it, but it did take nearly 3 days to transfer everything there and back. my map is wonderful now, though.

 

[Tako]

I've been very tempted to reset, but I've just gotten two of my dreamies and I would hate to lose them. I think I'll just... slowly terraform the island until I get what I want. :'>

 

[Romaki]

I won't reset. I had a new town once a month in New Leaf and I just didn't enjoy playing the game anymore.

Of course there are things that I wish I could change with my island, but I know if I reset then my only wish will become that I just stuck it out with my original island, without knowing what had to be perfect. Because no island will ever be perfect, even with terraforming.

 

[moonolotl]

I think a lot of the people who want to reset are definitely the perfectionists and the people who get easily overwhelmed with a lot of things to do. Remember to take it slowly, you have no rush, and nothing has to be perfect in the first month of playing. It's taken a lot of convincing for me to understand that myself lol
Take a short break from the game if you have to, then once you come back you may either know if you want to reset or not or know what to do with your island. That's what im currently doing (still playing daily, but just taking a break from island construction)

 

[toddishott]

I reset 10 days in. I wasn't liking how my map was turning out and I didn't want to spend the bells moving every single thing and found it easier to reset. It only took 4 hours with a friends help but I don't regret it and I'm loving my new island so much more!

 

[kindheartedhog]

Nope it ruined New Leaf for me - I made a promise to myself to never reset again

 

[Vex L'Cour]

First day I did after I got annoyed by the layout, kicking myself now because I had Cherry which is a dream villager of mine and I didn't realize at the time I could've waited a couple of weeks to change the whole layout.

 

[rezberri]

I think a lot of the people who want to reset are definitely the perfectionists and the people who get easily overwhelmed with a lot of things to do.

i think this is a bit of a wild assumption on your part. im by no means a perfectionist, and i feel like calling people that just because they dislike something about their save they're going to keep for years that is a bit out of left field. when you have the ability to make whatever you want out of your save, wouldnt you want to make it to your exact specifications? and it's not that im overwhelmed with all the things to do, it's just that while doing them i've realized im not the biggest fan of my island.

a lot of the things i now have problems with aren't things i thought would be too big of an issue at the start, but when my terraforming isn't going in a good direction, i have to spend millions of bells to wiggle everything around just to change things on one side of my island then move them back, when im starting to have problems with my airport and entrance, and when i realize that the things i now want on my island are almost impossible/really hard to pull off, i would kinda just rather reset at that point.

i think i might reset. ive been worrying myself sick about these slight imperfections and whether i actually want to keep my island. there are so many things keeping me here atm, but bc aesthetics and looks matter slightly more resetting will probably win out in the end. and it's fine if that's the case; i have technically played this game since release so i've no issues time traveling back to then and playing like 30 minutes per day to at least get some progress. but this whole situation is sad and i say this but i'll probably just stick with my island and suffer. i guess we'll see in a few days.

 

[moonolotl]

i think this is a bit of a wild assumption on your part. im by no means a perfectionist, and i feel like calling people that just because they dislike something about their save they're going to keep for years that is a bit out of left field. when you have the ability to make whatever you want out of your save, wouldnt you want to make it to your exact specifications? and it's not that im overwhelmed with all the things to do, it's just that while doing them i've realized im not the biggest fan of my island.

Oh no i wasnt saying being a perfectionist is a bad thing, im sorry if it came off poorly.
Its just that ive heard a lot about people getting overwhelmed with the amount theyve had to do, like moving buildings and such, and as a bit of an over-perfectionist myself ive had a lot of issues with my currently lay out because of it. Sorry if it came off negatively and i apologise for assuming

 

[rezberri]

Oh no i wasnt saying being a perfectionist is a bad thing, im sorry if it came off poorly.
Its just that ive heard a lot about people getting overwhelmed with the amount theyve had to do, like moving buildings and such, and as a bit of an over-perfectionist myself ive had a lot of issues with my currently lay out because of it. Sorry if it came off negatively and i apologise for assuming

its fine. i just made that comment in the heat of the moment. wondering whether i should reset or not has always been a rly emotional issue for me because i invest my emotions too heavily into things. i agree that being a perfectionist isnt a bad thing either, but when people say thats the only reason why someone would reset (and with resetting and time traveling being a bit of issues in the community, gotta stay pure and all that ) it just makes me mad.

 

[moonolotl]

its fine. i just made that comment in the heat of the moment. wondering whether i should reset or not has always been a rly emotional issue for me because i invest my emotions too heavily into things. i agree that being a perfectionist isnt a bad thing either, but when people say thats the only reason why someone would reset (and with resetting and time traveling being a bit of issues in the community, gotta stay pure and all that ) it just makes me mad.

again i apologise, i just worded things poorly!
Sorry if i upset you or anything

 

[thelonewanderer]

I reset my first island because of this issue as well! I actually was aiming for 2 south river mouths but I never realised how much space it took away from the rest of the island!

Same I thought I was smart by doing so since it would give both the west and east beach the entire area. Turn out by having all river mouth at the bottom, it took away land from the left and right of the island.

 

[vicutie]

I only reset once!! When I discovered that there were specific airport/airplane colors in the game I wanted a blue airport/airplane as well as haha

 

[thelonewanderer]

I only reset once!! When I discovered that there were specific airport/airplane colors in the game I wanted a blue airport/airplane ✈ as well as haha

I have those combination but I wanted green.

 

[vicutie]

I have those combination but I wanted green.

Lucky!! It probably took me around 6 hours to get the blue airport/airplane & peaches combo Definitely not planning on resetting ever again after that experience LOL Although it would be nice to have a centered town plaza

 

[Maerle]

I reset on accident! I did not know you could not transfer save data from Animal Crossing to a new Switch, so I lost my save file!
I got really lucky and found my exact same map WITH cherries and a blue airport (which I wanted). I got to place buildings more conveniently this time around, so that’s good. Did get Sterling as starter and Truffles as a random move in, but I’ll change them later.

I sometimes get doubts when I see other people’s maps and island layout, mine feels less spacious, but I’m gonna stick with! My map actually has a whole lot that I like!

 

[Melchoir]

I haven't reset or really even thought about it! I did in NL a couple of times though.