I'm honestly really thinking about it. It's going to be a difficult decision for me, but after starting to get my island put together, I've learned just how badly I hate the location of my town plaza. It's almost right after you get out of the airport, but off to the side. I'm having a difficult time figuring out how to make that area flow nicely and look pretty. But considering that I'm happy with almost everything else about my island, I'm not sure if I'm willing to do the work of resetting to get all of those features back again.
Have any of you reset your island yet?
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YES! I started my first island on the 20th, the day the game came out. I reset on the 5th of April because my layout just didn't work with what I wanted to do. Back in Wild World and New Leaf I had an awful habit if resetting constantly and never kept a town for long. I'm trying not to do that again. 
I haven't and I don't think I will! I want to have the same island for as long as I play.
Edit: I reset in New Leaf a lot and would lose interest in a town, and then reset a few months later, and keep resetting. I had one town for about at year at release of NL, but the file got messed up somehow.
Edit: I reset in New Leaf a lot and would lose interest in a town, and then reset a few months later, and keep resetting. I had one town for about at year at release of NL, but the file got messed up somehow.
Lotusblossom
Prankster Crossing
What do you mean so people only get 4 types of flowers each?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!? A
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Dont they sell Rose's at nooks cranny if they're not native?
I'm pretty sure everybody is limited to 4 flowers with everything (including shops) because they want people to trade for them.
I haven’t, and I don’t think I will. I’ve only reset once in all my playthroughs, because my first NL town had the U shaped river and it was impossible to do anything with it (I reset after 2 or 3 weeks though).
I’m pretty happy with my island this time: east and south river outlets, peaches, pansies and hyacinths, started with a new villager (and the best-looking uchi), really like my plaza placement and my peninsula. The only thing I hate is the green airport, but you barely see it anyways.
I figured I can change anything I dislike with terraforming, and even if I screw up, I can rearrange everything at any point. Plus, I’ve already found 3 dreamies and made a lot of progress. I don’t think I’ll ever reset.
I’m pretty happy with my island this time: east and south river outlets, peaches, pansies and hyacinths, started with a new villager (and the best-looking uchi), really like my plaza placement and my peninsula. The only thing I hate is the green airport, but you barely see it anyways.
I figured I can change anything I dislike with terraforming, and even if I screw up, I can rearrange everything at any point. Plus, I’ve already found 3 dreamies and made a lot of progress. I don’t think I’ll ever reset.
DJStarstryker
Senior Member
Ha, no. I can see resetting at the beginning to get the map you want, though I didn't need to. But even though the game hasn't even been out for a month yet, I know I've put in WELL over 100 hours into this game. I don't know exactly how many I've played because I haven't looked, but it's been a LOT. That's too much work to flush down the toilet, especially because I haven't even TTed.
With how long the tutorial is and the addition of terraforming, I doubt island resets will be as common as they were in the past. I hate the fact my airplane is yellow, but I got an excellent central location for my plaza so... You win some, you lose some, I guess.
I reset three times in New Leaf in the course of 3 or so years, but that's because I grew up with it. I've gone by many names in the past before settling on my current one, so I kind of had to, unfortunately. Since I'm dead set on my current name I have no reason to reset my town unless I go through something nuts and have to change my whole identity.
I reset three times in New Leaf in the course of 3 or so years, but that's because I grew up with it. I've gone by many names in the past before settling on my current one, so I kind of had to, unfortunately. Since I'm dead set on my current name I have no reason to reset my town unless I go through something nuts and have to change my whole identity.
I made that mistake with new leaf, I must of reset over 10 times because I would get “addicted” and then stop playing after a while, then next time I picked it up again I would reset because I had neglected the game for a while.
I regret doing so, it ruined the game for me since I never “completed” or got as far as I wanted to. In NH I will never reset, I’ve had it from launch day so that helps me a lot (plus 100 hours+ now).
I regret doing so, it ruined the game for me since I never “completed” or got as far as I wanted to. In NH I will never reset, I’ve had it from launch day so that helps me a lot (plus 100 hours+ now).
I hate that both my river outlets face south, I had no idea when I started that you couldn't move them and a friend told me to go with that map so I did. I regret doing so, a lot. Even more when I go to that friend's island who was lucky enough to get a perfect map on first try, it feels so much more spacious than mine. But having put almost 200hours in and being pretty satisfied with my terraforming effort now, I don't see myself resetting, even though the outlets still bug me out, I do not want to lose everything. Every game I've reset in the past, I've regretted it and it ended up with a series of other resets afterwards so I'm not doing that mistake again. I shall deal with my terrible river outlets.
I have seen many beautiful layouts with two south river outlets! Don't worry.
Typhloquill
Lucky Lucky
No. I reset my New Leaf town and I really regretted it. Never going to do a town reset again.
thelonewanderer
Senior Member
Lucky!! It probably took me around 6 hours to get the blue airport/airplane & peaches comboDefinitely not planning on resetting ever again after that experience LOL Although it would be nice to have a centered town plaza
Certain map are more likely to get what you want. For example, if you choose a map where the river exit toward the east, you are more likely to get peaches. Likewise, if you answer "sleeping is most important", you are more likely to get green airport more often then the other colors. While it vary, the amount vary base on your answer choice.
Also I find resetting much funner if you have 5 starting villagers versus just two. You get a better idea of what villagers you want and etc...
Nope and I don't plan to! I reset my town a bunch in New Leaf and could never really get re-attached to the game after that. I'm already well on my way to beating out my NL hours just because it feels very rewarding to see the island grow overtime! 
I did. I hated having two river mouths at the bottom of the map, so I reset in order to have one south and one to the left or right. I feel like it'll give me a bit more choice as to how I structure my rivers! I won the reset lottery, too; got cherries as my starting fruit and Phoebe and Genji as my starters - perfect imo.
This was only a few days into the game being out, so I just TT'd those three or four days to catch back up.
This was only a few days into the game being out, so I just TT'd those three or four days to catch back up.
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Pretty Dead Boy
Noot Noot
A part of me wants to reset it so my native flowers would be lilies, and I could store the items I accidentally sold that aren’t re-purchasable.
Another part of me doesn’t because I sank so many hours to catching every available fish or bug of the month to donate to the museum as well as craft all the cherry blossom recipes.
I think I’ll pace myself and go as far as catching all the bugs and fishes along with finding all the fossils to donate to the museum and getting a 5-star rated island. After that, I think I won’t mind resetting anew
Another part of me doesn’t because I sank so many hours to catching every available fish or bug of the month to donate to the museum as well as craft all the cherry blossom recipes.
I think I’ll pace myself and go as far as catching all the bugs and fishes along with finding all the fossils to donate to the museum and getting a 5-star rated island. After that, I think I won’t mind resetting anew
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