Island layout regret

[Sharksheep]

Does anyone regret the island layout they picked? I didn't know that the resident services area and the river mouths were fixed. My rivers are both south and my resident services area is not even in front my airport.

I have too many diy recipes to restart now

 

[Sanaki]

Yeah. I reset even though I had the full Sakura set and tons of recipes. Honestly it was worth it to me because I got a lot back (plus more) and better variants of furniture in my shops. I decided that it was worth it to reset because while diys are replaceable, a bad layout (meaning RS and river ends) isn’t and I didn’t want to dread playing.

 

[Eirrinn]

Eh I only slightly regret it. Not worth resetting over as I can just terraform the rivers around if needed

 

[thatawkwardkid]

Eh, I wish Resident Services and my airport lined up a little more but its not a huge deal. I was able to work around it.

 

[Sharksheep]

Eh, I wish Resident Services and my airport lined up a little more but its not a huge deal. I was able to work around it.

Can I ask how you worked around? I'm struggling with figuring out my shop placements since I plan on moving all of my residents to back of the island

 

[Moon Cake]

I was a little peeved that my Resident Services area is two spaces off-center from the airport and I also considered resetting because I had second thoughts about my island name. I started terraforming and decorating my island more and now these annoyances don't bother me at all.

 

[Piroshi]

I do. My Resident Services is one spot off from being lined up with my airport. It's too late to reset now though.

 

[trashpedia]

Ehhhhhh...I kinda wish my resident services was in front of my airport but other than that, I’m kinda fine with the layout of my island.

 

[Dae]

yeah I kinda wish my resident services lined up with my airport, but I ended up working around it as well, for the most part. I'm slowly but surely having things come together, there's still some empty space around the RS but I think I have a few ideas. And as for the river mouths, I think the key to getting used to those is abandoning the whole 'water from the headwaters MUST flow down to the rivermouths' mentality that the map puts on you. try not to cling to the idea that a massive river has to stretch through the entirety of your island. Get creative with it, have a small pond close to the mouth flow into the ocean to make sense of the rivermouth instead. or some tiny moat-like rivers winding thru your residential area/shopping district and meeting at the mouth. somethin like that!

 

[lucitine]

I do only because my town hall is located north of the airport. I needed that space for an idea and its kind of bothering me that my new cliffs are right up against the edge of the center.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

Can I ask how you worked around? I'm struggling with figuring out my shop placements since I plan on moving all of my residents to back of the island

Luckily for me Resident Services and my airport is off by like 10 spaces so I just had to change my paths a little. My original plan was to have them line up perfectly and have a huge path leading up to RS with a fountain or statue in the middle. I might post pictures later since its a little hard to describe.

 

[alyssaisrad93]

Yes, now that I know how I'd like my island to be setup and everything I really regret my island choice. I only had south-facing river maps and I didn't know that you couldn't move them with terraforming, which really messes up my island. My resident services is also pretty centered, which is good, except it's more far north than I want it to be, so I have a limited area to work with for my neighborhood area. Also with both river mouths being south I have two little strips of land on the left and right, which I don't really know what to do with.

I really considered resetting a few weeks ago, but now that I have almost all of my dreamies and a lot of recipes and items I don't want to start over at this point. I wish Nintendo had been a bit more upfront about terraforming limitations regarding the river mouths, because by the time you unlock it you're pretty far along.

 

[elphieluvr]

I have a lot of regret about resident services. I specifically chose a map where resident services was in the center of the island as a whole, because I thought it would be a better aesthetic. Didn’t think about the fact that it was waaay out of line with the airport.

but I have 200 hours logged on this game and I don’t host strangers much, only my irl friends, so I figured it wasn’t worth resetting over.

 

[-Apples-]

I don’t regret choosing what map I chose. I even liked my island more than I did from the start.

 

[ForgottenT]

I have the abaolute worst resident service location..
It's right up against the dodos, closer than I've ever seen in other layouts, and it's offset, it's awful, my river locations are awful too, top left, and bottom right.

 

[thelonewanderer]

Same map as you OP. Reset on Day 5 (35 hours into the game) and never look back. Best decision I ever made. I'm on day 18 now and love my island.

 

[Story]

A little. I was lucky that I knew Resident services couldn't be changed before hand so I made sure they lined right up. I dont like my river mouths though. But I’m working with it.
Also not a fan of my town name. Should have choosen Rookery or Roost. No way I’m resetting now though.

 

[elimaycry]

i really liked it when i chose it but now I've done some terraforming and redecorating it's bugging me a bit.... wish we could move river mouths but I am stuck with it now lol

 

[DovahTobi]

I have a lot of regret about resident services. I specifically chose a map where resident services was in the center of the island as a whole, because I thought it would be a better aesthetic.

Same here :\ I was like okay make it central! Then after a few days of playing I was like .... oh. But I didn't want to reset. I think I've done some decent stuff with paths so it's not the worst thing. Still regret it, but not enough to reset.

 

[ForbiddenSecrets]

My resident services being just one off center with the airport and close enough to notice is painful. If if was more off I would be happier. That said I'm just going to work with it. I'm happy enough with everything else. Nothing in life is perfect.