I have 2 physical copies. 4 characters in each. One town is all girl characters. The other is all boy characters. (Sidenote: Mable unlocks the QR machine for the boys a day earlier than she does for the girls. I've gotten it unlocked for 2 characters in both towns, but the boys always got it the day before the girls did.) It can be a bit much sometimes, but all those rooms to decorate and all that storage. But it does increase the money going to Tom Nook for house upgrades. I don't really play with others online, so when Katie shows up, I can just turn on my other game and take her there, plus I can easily take my native fruit to the other town to sell.
I've thought about getting a 3rd to have a themed town just for the Dream Suite, but that will probably wait until I have all 8 houses fully upgraded and paid off.
I have my original copy I bought on launch day, and then the digital copy that came with my bundle 3DSXL which didn't get delivered till a few days after launch. I play both, and will probably buy another game card or 2 either once the price drops of if I find them used somewhere. (I also had multiple towns on the original GC version by using several memory cards, and I own multiple copies of Wild World.)
I have two 3Ds' and two copies of Animal Crossing. I use one town as a free for all, time traveling, farming, buildings etc, and one town for my legit town. One I don't travel in, one I pay more attention too.
I got both NA and JP copies of the same game. I'm maining the former town, while the other town is reserved for many, many purposes.
I initially wasn't planning to buy the NA version, but then my other one constantly kicked me to HOME Menu and force rebooting because that 3DS wouldn't handle a certain buggy script for no reason whatsoever. Ironically, the same JP town almost never crashed since late June even if I stay idle online for hours and hours.
1. Play as a girl in real time
2. Play as a boy 4 months into the future. It is November in this town.
Keeping up with 2 towns is tough.
There are advantages and disadvantages when it comes to building 2 towns. In my first town I am ahead by 2 weeks. The 2nd town is slow going.
I am very friendly towards my villagers in town 1.
In town 2, I do not spend a lot of time chatting with my neighbors. I have to use every minute I have to make bells.
I have one digital copy with the bundle that is my main town. And one physical copy I got a few days earlier that I barely play more than half hour a day since the bundle turned up. And that half hour is entirely spent getting stuff for my main town now. I don't TT on either of them.
It could easily have turned out the other way round if my bundle town didn't happen to get a load of villagers I liked while the physical collected a hideous bunch. But now that there's the controlling villager method and both copies have everything major unlocked I'm considering restarting on the physical, setting the date to when I got the game and TTing forward via DS settings - so the game doesn't register it, which I couldn't have done very easily if digital was spare copy as I prefer playing on my XL, and that'd require me setting the time back and fourth to switch games.
Just one copy. Having another town seems like so much more work, considering how much I've put into my current town already! I don't want to have to repeat all that planting.
I downloaded the digital version on my XL on launch day. I have a regular 3DS, too, and I bought a retail cart for that. Playing the two versions makes me aware of how much I lucked out with the digital download. I had never played an AC game before, so I had no idea what to expect regarding town layout and random villagers. I love nearly all my villagers in the digital download version and (now that I have three bridges) I couldn't be happier with the layout of the town. On the other hand, I'm indifferent to the villagers I have in my second town and I absolutely hate the town layout. The funny thing about the town layout is that while the first layout I chose (for the digital download) was a happy accident, I purposely chose the town layout on the cartridge version. I don't know what I was thinking--the layout is terrible; too little area on the top half of the map and way too much real estate on the bottom half. I never remember where everything is and searching for money rocks and fossils is too much of a challenge for an every day chore. I will more than likely start from scratch on my second town. I hope to have a better map and villagers I like just as much as the digital download version.
Not for nothing, but I was under the apparently mistaken impression that the villager you see on the title screen before creating your first save file would be one of the town residents when you start the game. I knew nothing about the game the first time I loaded the digital download version, so I have no recollection at all who was wondering around in the title screen. I must have spent an hour restarting the second version until I found an alligator villager walking around in the title screen. Then I start the game and there isn't an alligator to be found. Oh, well...live and learn.
