I'm resetting over 350 hours into my game! Reset discussion!

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I'm not gonna start with absolutely nothing. My girlfriend is gonna hold my most valued stuff. But my landscaping, DIYs, museum, shops. All gone!

At first I was really torn about it. I've been trying to practice patience in this game and since release date I've had 2 islands and time traveled a little bit on both of them. I am totally okay with time travel in general but for whatever reason I just feel guilty knowing that I did it to move some villagers in and out a little faster (like I said, nothing against it but it just isn't for me I guess). So I'm gonna start a new town with new villagers and practice no time travel. This will also give me the chance to do things differently and just give me more reason to play for hours at a time lol. I'll definitely miss some aspects of my previous town and villagers, some of which I can't replace probably, but that's okay! Getting a fresh start feels really good already. Wish me luck! P.S. for the confusion, I only TTed my villagers and didn't gain any items/bells/etc. Through TT which is why I allowed myself to keep some belongings. I put an insane amount of time into decorating!

TLDR; I reset because I felt bad for time traveling my villagers in and out, and it messed up my nook stamps. I did not use time travel for items or bells, etc. I still felt bad even though at I only did it for like 10 days, so I reset my 2nd island after more than 350 hours of playing. I did keep some important items that were gifted to me or very hard to get though because they meant a lot to me! Anyways, I'm planning on no time traveling anymore and practicing being patient with my game. It'll take a lot of restraint but I'm gonna do it!

If you've reset your town, how many times have you done it since release? If you wanna share why, I'd love to hear it! Please enjoy having reset discussion with others here if you want!

Just a little request. This is not a time travel centered thread so please limit any mention of it. It's okay to say if you do or don't but I don't want any negativity in the thread so please keep any mention of it very light to avoid any bad feelings, I know it can be a sensitive subject for many. Thanks!
 
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I have 340 hours and I don't know. I don't think I can stomach starting over (I also don't have another switch so there is that).

There are certainly things I don't like about my town, but I feel I can live with them.
 
I applaud you being able to reset your town after so many hours of work, but if you like your new island it's worth it! There's stuff I don't love about my island (mostly river mouths and where my plaza is placed) but I've mostly gotten over it after terraforming a bunch, but I also just have to blame my lack of planning before I decided what island I got haha.
 
I have about 250 hours of game time and I couldn't reset and go through it all. Mind you, I'm fairly happy with the non-changeable part of my island. But even if I wasn't, I think I'd lose the will to live if I had to do it all again. :LOL:
 
The island I want simply doesn't exist, so rather than restart I think I've finally come to the realization that I need to make my layout work for me, and so far I'm content with that decision. I am a perfectionist, an over-analyzer and worrier, so that could change at any time but I hope that won't be the case from here on out. I spent a few days last week feeling really down over the game because I was so frustrated with my island and contemplating restarting. The whole task was overwhelming so I was just kind of frozen.

I've been doing some really advanced and micromanaged terraforming and, while time consuming and cumbersome, it has been successful thus far. Sure, ideally I wish I could restart and find my perfect island, but it just doesn't exist (not figuratively but rather literally - I need my RS building horizontally centered, which it currently is, but I wish I could have a west/south flowing river). I've also told myself that it's a neat challenge to come up with something cool using the dual soul river mouths, so we'll see.

I wish you the best of luck with your restarting. It can be overwhelming, but many who end up doing it seem to look back after-the-fact happy they did it.
 
I could never. I established lore (island and islander-wise) and made sure the island is something I would want to relax to.

I even planned a calendar and self-imposed events (something similar to Harvest Moon) to make the island more lively.

I did consider resetting because I despise terraforming but everyone's like family to me at this point.
 
While I wouldn't start over (I also play organically, without time travel), I commend you on trying something different than what you're used to. It may change your perspective on the game and you'll probably you appreciate the little things and the in-game progression a little better.
 
I thought about it but figured I just want more than one island. Bummed out that I can't have multiple islands though... unless I buy another Switch!
 
I haven't reset, but good luck and big respect for making the decision to start over! I think it's probably better to reset now with something you can be proud of and happy with in the future instead of putting more time into something you know you'll never be satisfied and happy with.
 
I resetted 2 times. The first because my sleepy self wrote Kyneria as the name, and in these games I prefer to go by Kyne, which looks shorter and better in my eyes, but it was like the next day after I started playing. The second with 250+ h, because I rushed. Guided by the hype I wanted everything to be perfect, decoration, villagers.... And playing started to get stressful. It was not because I TTed (I still do, to gift villagers and so).

Now I'm taking my time, and I'm super happy about my decision!
 
I've reset my island twice now. The first time I reset because I did villager trading before the glitch was well known and it bugged out my game pretty bad, I didn't have too much stuff so it wasn't a big deal. The second time I reset was about a week ago. I wanted a new character name, native fruit, airport color, and mostly a new map. I had a lot of DIYs and stuff catalog'd on my second island which really sucked losing but I'm still glad I reset. I definitely wasn't happy with my island(s) and there was no use pretending to be. I'm very content now!

I actually like the tutorial so I didn't mind going back through it again. I just wish I could have multiple islands so resetting wouldn't be necessary..
 
Lowkey would like to restart just to change my island name but I put so much into my island that I really don’t have the heart to do so.

Good on you for coming to the hard decision of resetting and playing in a way that makes you happy! Good luck on your new island!
 
I'm not gonna start with absolutely nothing. My girlfriend is gonna hold my most valued stuff.

At first I was really torn about it. I've been trying to practice patience in this game and since release date I've had 2 islands and time traveled a little bit on both of them. I am totally okay with time travel in general but for whatever reason I just feel guilty knowing that I did it to move some villagers in and out a little faster (like I said, nothing against it but it just isn't for me I guess). So I'm gonna start a new town
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...You're starting fresh to play a no TT game because you feel guilty for TT'ing to move villagers out sooner... but that guilt doesn't extend to the items you got through TT'ing, so you're keeping your most prized stuff for your fresh start...?

I always thought a fresh start meant...a fresh start, well good luck and have fun.
 
I actually reset for the same reasons you did. I ended up time traveling a couple of days on my original file and felt really disconnected and guilty about it afterwards. I was maybe 20 days into the game? I wanted a fresh start as well, but I only allowed myself to bring one outfit over for my new character. Besides that, I went with a 100% clean slate. I was very pleased with my decision since it got me a better map than my original. I haven't allowed myself to time travel at all, and I've been working on unlocking things all on my own (I'm not quickly trying to buy everything on the trading boards). It's been so much fun so far and I'm planning on keeping my current file as my permanent one
 
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...You're starting fresh to play a no TT game because you feel guilty for TT'ing to move villagers out sooner... but that guilt doesn't extend to the items you got through TT'ing, so you're keeping your most prized stuff for your fresh start...?

I always thought a fresh start meant...a fresh start, well good luck and have fun.
To me it'll still be different and fresh in a way. I won't have the same island, the same layout, or all of the same villagers. I'm going to be playing differently from my previous island as well. If holding onto my values defeats the purpose though or contradicts what I said then I apologize for that!

Edit: Had to reread your post because I missed something you'd mentioned. I time traveled villagers in and out but none of my items are from time travel. When I time travel villagers in and out, that's all I did because that's all I cared about at the time. It's okay if you don't wanna believe me, but most of my items come from crafting, trades, and just shopping on my island and my girlfriend's!

My morals are a bit strange in that aspect I guess. My villagers are the most important things to my game play so I time traveled them in and out but I didn't want to mess up any of my nook badges (which happened anyways) but I never checked my catalog, never stopped by the shop, or caught fish or bugs because then it would feel especially unfair.
 
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I don't time travel, but I also don't get the guilt you may have from it. It's fine to just stop... to start taking it slow, now. :) But I do get wanting a fresh start. Do what makes you happy!

I thought about resetting because I regret my island name, but 300+ hours in and all the cataloging/diys, it's not an option for me and I can't imagine starting over. I do wish they'd add an option to change island name after a number of months or hours played, though.
 
I have put in 215 hours, which I know probably isn't much but I like to take my time XD.

I must say, I have almost been tempted to reset more than once. But I haven't at all. I still have the same island I had on release day. The main reason of my wanting to reset was that I just wasn't happy with anything and didn't want to spend the bells to move it all and thought starting over would be easier. Honestly really glad I didn't do it, because now I have put in some work, I'm happy with my little island :3
 
Resetting is a tricky thing because it can lead to a vicious cycle. Resetting can be pretty addictive and lead into a pattern. This personally happened to me in NL and I became a habitual resetter once I opened the floodgates of hell. Lol. It’s just that once you’ve done it to a town or island you’ve worked on for months, there’s no stopping you from doing it over and over again in the future. There’s a tendency to not stick with a town for long and have the urge to reset again due to the smallest reasons and end up with multiple incomplete towns. It’s a dangerous thing to get into because the attachment to the town won’t be the same anymore no matter what. You cannot replicate the same level of attachment you have with your first ever town, regardless if you’ve TT’d or not in it. However, some people insist they need to do this to be happy so go do your thing but thread carefully so it doesn’t become an addiction.

With regards to moving villagers in and out via TT, I personally don’t see anything wrong with it to be guilty about because to me, that’s no different from moving them out using amiibos. It’s pretty much the same thing, IMO.
 
I could never start over, even though there's quite a few things I dislike about my island, but I've mostly managed to work around it.
To start over just feels wrong, and there's certainly things you'll dislike about any layout anyways, just seems like a road to nowhere, I've seen people restarting multiple times already, and they get burnt out, being that OCD won't get you anywhere, just work around the problems, that's what I did.
Restarting because you feel bad about cheating sounds good though, that feeling won't disappear unless you restart, I've had that in other games when I were younger, as soon as I'd cheat once no matter how small it felt wrong, and I'd start over.
 
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