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I haven't played for a long while as I burned out on the game. however I think I'm ready to start a new town! what are some ways I can make the game "fresh"? I'm worried about getting burned out really quickly! do you make goals for yourself when you start a new town? any ideas are helpful :>
 
hmm.. what you can do is to look for some inspiration in dream towns or on tumblr or so and get some nice decorating ideas you can do in your town, something you'd get excited over :D or try to get your favorite villagers to move in! or maybe make a themed town?
 
You could try making your own achievements: completing a part of the museum, finishing main-street, get a perfect town, etc.
 
hmm.. what you can do is to look for some inspiration in dream towns or on tumblr or so and get some nice decorating ideas you can do in your town, something you'd get excited over :D or try to get your favorite villagers to move in! or maybe make a themed town?

oh, the dream town inspo is a good idea, thank you! :>

You could try making your own achievements: completing a part of the museum, finishing main-street, get a perfect town, etc.

ooh, finish mainstreet! I've never done that before ;u; that's a good goal, thank you!
 
I don't really get bored of animal crossing, i just usually stop playing for no reason, but goals are a good idea if you think you're likely to get bored and tired with it. that can be the usual goals like achieving a perfect town, striving to get all the badges etc. or getting dream villagers, but for me, seeing other people's achievements/creativity usually inspires me to play more, I love to visit really nice and creative dream towns and look at/follow animal crossing blogs on tumblr (like lunachii said), it inspires me to really work towards having an amazing town
 
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I don't really get bored of animal crossing, i just usually stop playing for no reason, but goals are a good idea if you think you're likely to get bored and tired with it. that can be the usual goals like achieving a perfect town, striving to get all the badges etc. or getting dream villagers, but for me, seeing other people's achievements/creativity usually inspires me to play more, I love to visit really nice and creative dream towns and look at/follow animal crossing blogs on tumblr (like lunachii said), it inspires me to really work towards having an amazing town

do you have any blogs that you could recommend? :>

How about decorating a complete house?

ah, that's a good idea too! I've never done that either ;___;
 
I haven't played for a long while as I burned out on the game. however I think I'm ready to start a new town! what are some ways I can make the game "fresh"? I'm worried about getting burned out really quickly! do you make goals for yourself when you start a new town? any ideas are helpful :>

Animal crossing has several different things for you to focus on. For example, you might be focused on catching every bug in the game right now, but you could move on to upgrading & designing your house, getting all of your dream villagers, landscapibg your town, unlocking every k.k. song, the list goes on! I was kind of like you, my first town focused solely on making bells, and upgrading my house & getting all gracie furniture, which is nice but after I reset I like designing my house much more and I think it looks much better than it did before. I've also started collecting all of my dreamies & landscaping. It's a nice long term goal to look forward to and I've had alot of fun making my town just how I want it. I hope this helped!
 
get a perfect town, all badges, a bunch of hybrids, all dreamies, all bugs, all fish, all sea creatures, everything in catalogue idk
 
Animal crossing has several different things for you to focus on. For example, you might be focused on catching every bug in the game right now, but you could move on to upgrading & designing your house, getting all of your dream villagers, landscapibg your town, unlocking every k.k. song, the list goes on! I was kind of like you, my first town focused solely on making bells, and upgrading my house & getting all gracie furniture, which is nice but after I reset I like designing my house much more and I think it looks much better than it did before. I've also started collecting all of my dreamies & landscaping. It's a nice long term goal to look forward to and I've had alot of fun making my town just how I want it. I hope this helped!

it did help!! thank you! I always get so lazy with landscaping - I think that is definitely a good long-term goal for me! :>

get a perfect town, all badges, a bunch of hybrids, all dreamies, all bugs, all fish, all sea creatures, everything in catalogue idk

thank you! I think I'll try for all sea creatures - so hard to get all of the diving ones! ;u;
 
If I were you, I'd just take things very slow and try to set some goals with myself (i.e, no time traveling, no plot resetting, obtain dreamies by campsite or random move in only) and just play the game how it was meant to be played. No stress over getting a perfect town right away or anything like that. Plan up a town theme that is unique and one you've never done before, make an apocalypse town or futuristic one or a town set in a certain era. Create stories out of the villagers, pair them up, decide who likes who best or which villagers are enemies. I find that helps me keep at the game and I've yet to get bored!
 
You could try to make it so that your villagers have well decorated houses! It's very easy for villagers homes to spin out of control into a nightmare, and while it could be a difficult task, you could try to do your very best to always give them really nice stuff through the mail and when they request new furniture until they have perfect houses.
 
Cycle a bunch of villagers through your town and get pwp suggestions from them before you start building things and landscaping. When you have all the pwps you want, build them and move your favorite 10 villagers in. Then landscape around your pwps and villager houses. Fill the remaining space in your town with fruit trees, bamboo, shrubs and flowers of your choice and decorate your beaches. You can also interact with other players that really like the game by going to CT or posting here (finding people that play regularly is good motivation to keep playing). Lastly, you can complete, and decorate your museum and earn all the badges! Doing any one of these things will keep you busy xD
 
I try to be as indipendant of the forums as I can be when I get bored

Example: I don't get things off the forums, be it flowers, bells or bush start, I have to earn them myself.

I also go to the island :)
 
You could try to make it so that your villagers have well decorated houses! It's very easy for villagers homes to spin out of control into a nightmare, and while it could be a difficult task, you could try to do your very best to always give them really nice stuff through the mail and when they request new furniture until they have perfect houses.

whoops I forgot I made this thread heh ; v ; thank you everyone for the suggestions! :> they're wonderful!

this one is great, Buttonsy! that will definitely be a long-term goal! and it'll force me to write letters to my neighbors :>

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@kennedycrossing - ah, an apocalypse town! what an awesome idea! maybe I could make a walking dead theme!

@Miii - yes, beach decorating! I've always wanted to try that!

@00jachna - heh, I've already gotten one thing for my house ; v ; but I'll try to get other things on my own!!
 
All of the suggestions here have been great. I wanted to add that changing up your path every season is a good way to keep the game fresh without having to reset. I personally use paths that only take 5 or less slots (I give a little more leeway with water paths). It's also very easy to switch paths without it being a hassle. There's so many paths you can mix and match with each other. :)

Good luck on your town! :D
 
All of the suggestions here have been great. I wanted to add that changing up your path every season is a good way to keep the game fresh without having to reset. I personally use paths that only take 5 or less slots (I give a little more leeway with water paths). It's also very easy to switch paths without it being a hassle. There's so many paths you can mix and match with each other. :)

Good luck on your town! :D

thank you for the suggestion! that's a good one - there are so many cute patterns out there too! c:

Reset and follow your heart. I'm in love with my new town!

aww great advice c: and I'm glad you love your new town!!
 
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