It's official for me - I HATE my main town!

[Ankhes]

I don't want to hijack Yui Z's thread that is sort of along these lines, so I made a new one.

Yui Z is tempted to dig up all bushes and rethink paths. My main town has become such an issue with me that I have been avoiding playing it because I have come to HATE what I did with it. Don't get me wrong - I love my town in a way, and I'm happy with a lot of aspects of it. But what I simply can no longer ignore is what I see as poor placement of simply EVERYTHING.

I feel like I have no brain at all when it comes to planning where to place PWP's, and of course some I cannot move due to not being able to destroy and be rebuilt, so there is that. However, there are others that probably should be someplace else. My street lights are just...there. I have no idea how to make a proper path system. And then there is the fact that since I like paths and having flowers and trees that I'll never be able to use my Main Town as one with Snowpeople! I'd have no way to roll a snowball around!

>_< If I hadn't already placed so much work into my Mayor and earned badges and already have some wonderful villagers and also used that same town to give away some for other peoples' dreamies and completed the fossil part of my museum I'd probably reset.

But I won't do that. I just...HATE the town. I'm happy with the Fairy-Tale things I do have, but the rest are just plain awful. At least I see it that way. Roseberg is the hugest mess, at least in my mind, that I have ever created.

Any of you feel the same? How can I learn to love my town again? I don't have the bells to hire anyone for advice, and I never seem to be available at the same time as somebody who could advise me for free. So, I think I just need basic advice or moral support or...heck...I don't know. Just a way to learn to love the colourful mess I created. *wistful smile*

 

[PlasticPinkPiggy]

Ah this again

Hello!

You might have seen me around, posting on a few of your threads and it seems you are talking a lot about flower arranging and bushes and how your town is a bit messy?

Well though I don't do this often, if you are interested in a landscaper for your town; I have a shop with Kyoko which not only do we sell flowers but we also do jobs such as flower arranging, path making, digging up and other landscaping needs.

You can check out the full thread here: http://www.belltreeforums.com/showthread.php?119166-Kyo-and-Piggy-s-Hybrid-Flower-Shop

Please PM me back if you are interested ^~^

- Piggy

I'm just bringing the up the PM I sent to Yui Z, might help a bit

 

[Holla]

Maybe post your dream code? It's the easiest way for someone to check out your town and give you an opinion on it.

 

[Ankhes]

Thank you! I'll post my DC, Holla, and also check out your link, PlasticPinkPiggy.
Altho I hate to admit that I'm sort of glad that I'm not the only one unhappy with her/his town, I am glad that I am not alone in this feeling. I now think those of us with this problem have some recourse, which is what I was hoping for.

 

[Yui Z]

Haha I wouldn't have minded - hijack away

 

[XTheLancerX]

Ohhhh you are not alone! I actually deleted my town because of this. Like the layout, liked the paths, but everything was cramped, too busy, messy looking. I came to dislike the paths, my town felt too settled, and I missed the feeling a normal town has in animal crossing when it is mostly trees and flowers, not many paths, if any. A large portion of the reason I reset was also boredom. There wasn't anything really I could do with my town.

 

[Ankhes]

For those brave souls willing to spend 500 bells on my *ugh* town, it is 4200-3022-7056. I'll go and update the town right now.

I'm so glad I'm not alone and that you all feel my pain, so to speak. X_The_Lancer_X...you are one BRAVE person to reset after so much work.

Yui Z, thanks! I just didn't want to take away from any help or help offers you may have received if I had barged in and griped about my crap-mess of a town.

I think it is probably salvageable; I just need to know how to go about it. I LOVE paths, but also think I overdid it. I'd love to have a healthy balance between the two. I want snowpeople and natural areas, but I'd also love some patterned paths to avoid the extreme ugly wear of the heavily traveled parts.

Maybe also there is a better way to place my PWP's? Thank you all for your input. If you have more after viewing my town, I'm open to any and all suggestions. I just hope that I can avoid the resetting. Also, I can't reset anyway until I move out the dreamies I'm reserving for some people.

I still hope to salvage the town I have and make it less crowded and easier to navigate thru. There must be a way, right? *hopeful*

 

[beffa]

Me tooo!!! ARGH!!!!! I've posted essays about it in the blog tree and it drives me nuts just thinking about it.

I hate it even more currently because of blank paths and non-matching grass. It really upsets me. I'm holding out until the summer to see if my town looks any better… But I doubt it.

 

[Alienfish]

Mine is messy, in an arranged way because of perf town and I like it still. Only wish I had a better layout but I wanted Erik as a starter so had to go with the not too bad one.

 

[oak]

I dreamt of your town! I definitely thought all the path squares were cute, but they didn't all flow? Maybe if you picked your top favourite and got rid of some pieces. I'm bad with giving criticism. If you're feeling adventurous you could kick up every square in town and re-lay down your paths. I did that for an old area in my town, and it felt a lot lighter after.

 

[kittie885]

I'm also happy to hear i'm not the only one with a messed up town. When I first started I've never played new leaf before so I thought the first choices you get for your town layout were the ONLY choices you get. I didn't know you could reset your game and continue to pick! So I chose the best of the worst. Now that I know I COULD have gotten something better I feel stuck with something horrible! But i've already filled up the museum so much and upgraded my house. I worked hard to earn the bells to upgrade things... so I don't want to reset either. I think the best we can do is make do with what we have...

 

[Akina]

I've been feeling I've got a messy town with no system at all. My paths were weird, flowers, trees and bushes like all around. But I've taken one area at a time and then I've been lurking on a lot of ACNL blogs on Tumblr to get ideas. It helped!
If I were you I would first figure out what you want your town to look like - what theme, which PWPS. Then go ahead and chop down all trees, dig up all bushes, remove all paths and start over! Get rid of your PWPs and get someone to help you fix things in your town. Perhaps you could get someone to outline a path for you? Then you could lay it down yourself. And someone to help you arrange the flowers, trees and bushes Then your town would get a complete makeover!

 

[Bariumsheep]

Sorry turnips are taking so long >.<
I'm sure it's not too bad though. Some of the most fun I've had arranging things has been when I was re-arragning to work around things because it was a challenge. It'll be great in no time : )

 

[Ras]

About a month ago, I felt really good about my town. Then, like a light switch, my opinion completely changed. It was mainly because my second town came together so nicely. The main difference was that I knew nothing about paths or planning with my first town, so I just plopped down PWPs wherever I felt like and then pathed around them. The second town, the paths came first and everything makes more sense.

I'm going through my original town and knocking down PWPs and redoing things. The part near my house looks so much better now. But, the part near the station is giving me all kinds of trouble. A lot of that is the slow going of having to knock down one thing today, another tomorrow, build one thing the next day, etc. I'm really unhappy with that part of town right now, but maybe it'll get better. I started to build a little square around a hot spring, but it looks so small and barren. Maybe trees and/or bamboo will bring it together.

 

[woody]

i been busy lately and basically forgot about my town ... i think i must have not played for at least 2 or 3 weeks? then i logged in the other day to discover that my entire field of blue roses are gone (had at least 20)... some villagers moved out...

*sigh*

the magic is gone for me... i don't have the desire to play anymore... last login was new years eve, i literally logged in as the count down was happening in my town square and i ran to it with about 10 seconds to spare before the fireworks went off.. only 4 of my villagers were there -_-

anyway.. it was a good one month for me and now the magic has fizzled and dying a slow death...

 

[Ankhes]

This is from my iPad so sorry if there are typos. I'll begin kicking up pattern squares tonight and try to lighten the feel a bit. Yeah...my blocks don't flow, as the brave dreamer said! I don't want all of my blocks the same, but they do need to work together more.

Hmmm...I had cut down some trees, but maybe I should get brave and cut down more. Maybe a major makeover is the solution! I would really love some advice about better PWP placement for the ones that can be moved, and then I'll bet the rest would come together much easier.

I feel for all of you who are as frustrated as I am! (Hugs). I was frustrated earlier on, but now that I am creating a couple of cycling towns and they are better - probably because they only have several PWPs, I feel even more irritated by my main town.

I will get to work on it tho, probably tonight, and try to catch a person or two to help me out with advice and maybe an axe or two!

ETA - I will respond properly to each of you once I'm at an actual keyboard. For now, thank all of you for reading this and for your thoughts and suggestions so far. I really appreciate it.

 

[JellyBeans]

In my very first town, I started to hate my town, so I started chopping down all the trees, gathering all flowers on the beaches, etc. In the end I reset, because I couldn't be bothered. But if you don't want to start all over again, which a lot of people don't, then just chop down all trees, demolish all demolishable PWPs, kick up paths. Then start afresh, with ideas of nice towns in your mind off Tumblr and stuff. That's my advice, I suppose :3

You can always hire people to help you plant flowers and trees and lay out paths and stuff. There are lots of people willing to help, I'm sure. (e.g. me. I helped Akina c: )

And I'd visit your town via Dream Suite if I had only unlocked it.

 

[RisingSun]

I took a couple of weeks off in November so that my grass would regrow (I don't time travel) then laid down new paths and started redoing some of my town. I really like a close feel with a lot of hedges running along my paths.

Probably a complete makeover will help with your feelings. I haven't had time to dream of your town. You are welcome to look at mine to get some inspiration if you like. My address is in my signature. I am hoping to get a cranky soon so that I can get some more zen PWP suggestions.

 

[MayorIsabel]

Yes, this is LITERALLY what happened with my old town! I'd see all these people with the most amazing, beautiful towns, and then there was me barely being able to lay a path. -.- Ok, I kind of sucked at the whole lanscaping thing, but I think the main reason was my incredibly awful town layout. I had no idea what could be done with all the PWPs and designs, so when Rover asked me which map my town had, I picked the first one. I guess I was in such a hurry to get started, and I didn't even see how the layout could really effect anything, to a certain extent!

Every day, I'd hate my town more and more, until a few days ago, I re-set.
I have my DREAM town layout (it only took about 3 hours), and know exactly what I'm going to do with it.
Can't wait to unlock the dream suite and sewing machine to get the designs! XD

 

[Gummysaur]

Try removing some paths and flowers! Half my town is wilderness and the other half is settled, with lots (LOTS) of flowers and PwPs and paths. Another part of it is half wilderness and half settled c: