Nah. I've never been one to really go all-in on making a crazy beautiful town in these games. Never bothered with custom paths in New Leaf, and even with the various path types given to the player in New Horizons, I use them for certain little things, but not anything elaborate like streets.
My plan from the beginning was to have all of the residents living on the back, elevated half of the island, while all of the businesses were up front. Rather than flatten my island, I had initially wanted to terraform it so that everyone would be living on the third, highest level. That "everyone on the highest level" plan didn't end up happening, I kind of just threw all of the resident houses back there as soon as possible, before unlocking terraforming. So, everyone's houses are either on the second or third levels. It would cost too much now to move them all around to address that now, and even if I did, I don't think I really have a specific way to go about it to make it all look good. I more or less just kept the island layout as it was, and have only done very small and insignificant terraforming to make certain things possible.
i never did because i don't have patience for it. i prefer to work in sections and either flatten or build cliffs as i go because otherwise i'd probably end up feeling too overwhelmed.
I have certainly considered it! But I ended up deciding that I could create an island that I loved without going to that effort and so far I have, it’s a working progress. I do terraform but flattening my island simply isn’t needed for what I am going for. I think it is a really good option though, a blank slate is incredibly tempting. If you have the bells to do it as you say I’d say go for it. I don’t really have any tips for you aside from take it as slowly as you want, there’s no rush.
nope not the whole island. i don’t have the patience for that, but i know it would be better to work on something like that. i did mine in sections but never got rid of the whole thing, i worked with what i have little by little.
Like others, I flattened it in sections! Half of my island is still in its glorious pre-terraforming state because I dont't know what to do with it, but the other half has already seen better terraforming days lol.
Nope! But I have to admit that I have thought about it but the dedication to rebuild everything, plus the amount of bells needed to move all the buildings and stuff makes my head ache just by thinking about it. That, and I don’t really think I have enough imagination to actually rebuild and turn it into something better than the current layout I have at the moment.
Yes, I have, though it was sort of at the beginning before I had much, so I didn't lose any flowers or fruit trees. I just kept fruit to re-plant and put a few of each type of flower in one corner of the map while I worked, however I am now going to re-do it again and it's pretty bare, but I haven't messed with the terraforming just yet as I have a BIIIIG project and a lot of work ahead of me. I have to say it's quite overwhelming and very daunting but hopefully it will be worth it when it's finished!
Before I have flattened mine by sections and not the whole island , but at this exact moment it's starting to get tempting the idea to just throw everything to the trash and flatten my island
The only reason I'm not doing it is because I have too many flowers and it makes me go lazy
I've flattened both of my towns when I got super tired of them. I was so frustrated with my first town because I was trying to build on what was already there and I just hated how it looked. I still hated how my island turned out after & I kind of wish I just re-flattened everything but I decided to restart. Once I got terraforming in my new town I immediately flattened everything because I knew I preferred designing that way. It does take quite a bit but it's nice to have something that you can focus on while zoning out for a while~ * v *
No I did not, I made it so it was close to its original shape with some modifications. I don't think I have the patience to do that, so I just work around what I already have.
