Right now, Im not doing QR paths, Im doing greenery orchards that make arches through my town. Tbh, I think it has a more outdoorsy feel to it. I like the natural look
Ooh that sounds really nice! I keep going between cutesy and woodsy, I can't decide.
Hours and hours is about the sum of it, yeah. That and WITCHCRAFT!!
I don't make that much effort with Baker--towns like that feel so dead to me. I like having a more organic feel to my town.
It is witchcraft! It must take hours and hours of resetting to get a house where you want it. I like towns that are more natural too, but mine doesn't really fall into either. It just kind of looks awkward at the moment.
Yep. You'll notice they've all put in over 500 hours. And that doesn't even include the resetting which I'd wager is much higher than actual playtime. Super impressive, but I'm more the type to reset for a bit and then just settle for mediocrity.
It must take so much patience. I remember resetting for about an hour and a half to get a layout I liked when the game came out and that was torture. I can't imagine doing it for any longer, and doing it every time a new villager moved in. I spend a lot of time on my town but I don't have the patience for resetting.
Yeah, what everyone has said: hours of work. I've spent at least 10 hours a day this whole summer playing ACNL and plot setting villagers, acquiring the landscaping I want, getting my house in order, wearing down my dirt paths, breeding hybrids, and whatnot,and I'm still not completely done yet. It's a real commitment and takes a lot of your time. With school coming up again, I won't be able to play as much, so I'm trying to finish before then (but it's not likely). I still need a TON of flowers/bushes, my dirt paths aren't finished yet, and I need to pick the specific date and time I want and match my stepping stone paths to the grass after that.
Seriously, I salute you. So much effort goes in! I don't have the time to do that because of my job, but even if I did I don't think I'd have the patience. I think people with these beautiful towns have a good eye for landscaping too. Everywhere I've put paths and PWPs just feels awkward, I wish one of these amazing town mayors would just tell me where to put things! Haha.
They probably spend hours with paths and plot resetting. Every time I see a perfect town I die a little bit on the inside >-<
Me too! I just want to reset but then I get home to my mediocre but loved villagers and remember the torment of '06 when I reset my beloved town on WW and I think better of it.
It could be a cheating method that got some dream towns house in a row. One town I dreamt all 10 houses were in a straight row.
Think it's hours and hours of plot resetting using a new player. One person was still plot setting after 7 hours. That's along time.
Slowly working one section at a time helps. Using tiles to map out the outer part of a PWP helps. Walking pass it each day helps before you place it or wait to get it. You can also test the Caf? using the fence. Keep it for awhile and see if you like the placement before keeping it.
All my houses and non removable PWP went in spot where villagers couldn't put their houses in front of them. I did 4 spaces away from the cliff so the villager couldn't move in. Also using PWP to the sides of your bridge helps protect them while waiting for the right bridge.
Oh really? I didn't even know you could cheat on New Leaf. Sometimes when that many houses are clustered together it looks weird and the town feels ghostly, but some people do it in a way that looks really good. 7+ hours just for one villager house?! I didn't even spend that much time resetting for my map! Serious dedication right there.
That's a good tip, I'll have to plot out my future PWPs and put them near bridges. Apollo broke the no PWP streak today which was a relief, it was an ugly PWP, but it was a PWP nonetheless, finally! I already have all of my permanent PWPs like the cafe, I don't mind where I placed those, they were okay spots.
Most likely plot resetting or leaftool and ram editing the save file.
Plot resetting sounds hellish. I am going to start doing it so villagers don't move on my paths, but I won't be using it to line my houses up. I think I'd lose my mind after the third reset. I don't even know what leaftool is but it sounds fishy.
I know right! I was landscaping my town and thought I was almost done but then I visited a few dream towns and I felt so disappointed in what I had done so far. I admit I need a little more greenery and pwps but other than that I feel it's great
It's soul crushing isn't it? I feel like resetting sometimes! Haha.
Plot resetting and a million hours of laying paths down, hating them, kicking them back up, finding new ones, planting trees, breeding hybrids. It doesn't happen overnight trust me.
I know, I work so hard on my town already and it's still nowhere near as good as some people's. I can't imagine how stressful it must be! I feel like the people with the perfect towns have a great eye for design though, every PWP I put down always looks a bit awkward. I need an assistant who has a good eye for detail to tell me where to put things! Haha.
Like everyone else said, hundreds of hours working. It really depends on your definition of "perfect."
I didn't have all my villagers in a row, a theme, or a plan. My town still seems perfect to me. I'm sure most everyone else will love their town too if they stop comparing it to others and just did their own thing.
I'll probably consider mine perfect, or as perfect as it can get, when my paths are lines with bushes and I have all the PWPs I want. I don't have the patience to have paths that contain more than one design and resetting to line up my houses. I wish I did!
