New Map! Need help planning my town!

[Sloom Lagoon]

I got a new map! Wooo!



So yeah, that's my map and I would like some help planning my town! I've never been very good at design, but I want this map to look good, unlike my last town! This includes: Positions for PWPs (Mainly Cafe and police station), housing for both villagers and the rest of my residents, when I get them and other stuff, like PWP themes and just paths/ landscaping!

I don't have a dream address right now, so this is probably the best I can do! Any help/ opinions would be much appreciated!

 

[alexxcaughtfire]

I need help too if you go to my dream town it was beautiful and I now took all paths and beauty out and am letting the town flower and grow in it's own Cuz Im about of ideas.

 

[snowblizzard24]

I would probably try and place the cafe at the bottom close to the beach ramp. Put flowers and such around it with a nice ocean view to drink coffee to. Maybe a few special stumps too or a bench to sit down and enjoy that cup of joe.

I placed my police station next to the town hall for my town since Isabelle and copper both kinda are the main patrollers, but it doesn't look like that'll work for your town. I would probably wait and see when you develop the town more to get a feel of where exactly it should be. If anything maybe the opposite side of the pond near retail (if space allowed of course), or even next to retail? In case you get lost items and such you can just take a few steps to get to retail and sell that.

Maybe you could do a whole row of villagers down the left side since 3 of them are already situated there. I'm not sure how natural and how much time you wanna spend on future plot reset though so that's probably just gonna be personal choice from then on.

How many residents will you be making also would be a determinant. I would personally try and place them next to each other, but then you'd probably be blocking bridge access so that's not good. Wow this is a lot harder than I though lol

 

[Sloom Lagoon]

I would probably try and place the cafe at the bottom close to the beach ramp. Put flowers and such around it with a nice ocean view to drink coffee to. Maybe a few special stumps too or a bench to sit down and enjoy that cup of joe.

I placed my police station next to the town hall for my town since Isabelle and copper both kinda are the main patrollers, but it doesn't look like that'll work for your town. I would probably wait and see when you develop the town more to get a feel of where exactly it should be. If anything maybe the opposite side of the pond near retail (if space allowed of course), or even next to retail? In case you get lost items and such you can just take a few steps to get to retail and sell that.

Maybe you could do a whole row of villagers down the left side since 3 of them are already situated there. I'm not sure how natural and how much time you wanna spend on future plot reset though so that's probably just gonna be personal choice from then on.

How many residents will you be making also would be a determinant. I would personally try and place them next to each other, but then you'd probably be blocking bridge access so that's not good. Wow this is a lot harder than I though lol

Thanks aha that's really helpful! I was going to put my campsite or Cafe near where you said, so I think the cafe would be nice! And maybe a resident/ campsite on the other side of the waterfall...
As for villagers, I will be plot resetting so although I really don't want to keep the ones I have now, I think down the side would look nice And it'd keep them close together, so easier to do the rounds..

And yeah, I'm at a loss on the police station :c I definitely want to get it but urgh! Maybe I'll just shove it in a corner... aha

 

[snowblizzard24]

Thanks aha that's really helpful! I was going to put my campsite or Cafe near where you said, so I think the cafe would be nice! And maybe a resident/ campsite on the other side of the waterfall...
As for villagers, I will be plot resetting so although I really don't want to keep the ones I have now, I think down the side would look nice And it'd keep them close together, so easier to do the rounds..

And yeah, I'm at a loss on the police station :c I definitely want to get it but urgh! Maybe I'll just shove it in a corner... aha

Lol, either way I'm sure your town will turn out awesome. Good luck ^-^

 

[Cynder drag]

Hi! I understand how you feel. I'm really OCD about finding the perfect town and l started over probably 50 times until I got the town I have now. You could place a lighthouse or a windmill near the south side of the town near the cliff top, facing out toward the ocean. Btw, I love where you placed your house in that little circle surrounded by the river. I did something similar and I'm planning on using bushes (when I get them) and flowers to make a fence around my property with only a small section open to get in. Then I will make a path leading in to my house. I don't know if you'll have enough room, but I was also planning on putting a fountain or some other nice public works project in my little fenced off property as well. I hope this was helpful in some way! X) I'm not very creative.

 

[Psicat]

Perhaps something like this? With the red circle being your lighthouse.

 

[Sloom Lagoon]

Perhaps something like this? With the red circle being your lighthouse.
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Wow! That's really thought out! And yeah, that's a nice design! Only problem is Beau is in the top left corner and I don't want to loose him right now :/

Other than that, it looks really good! I like the lighthouse/ cafe placement especially!

 

[Ninetees]

Perhaps something like this? With the red circle being your lighthouse.
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Hey, how did you map out the town layout like that? Is there a special software for that? I am interested in mapping out my town map, so that I can kind of get an idea where to place what.

 

[Psicat]

Wow! That's really thought out! And yeah, that's a nice design! Only problem is Beau is in the top left corner and I don't want to loose him right now :/

Other than that, it looks really good! I like the lighthouse/ cafe placement especially!

Then perhaps this is better and you could make the open area south of south of town hall and the police station a nice little park for your villagers.


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Hey, how did you map out the town layout like that? Is there a special software for that? I am interested in mapping out my town map, so that I can kind of get an idea where to place what.

I just use MS Paint. I prefer to map things out visually as well but never could find any software or app to do so. But, it usually works out fairly well with a few minutes on paint and just adding lines to map out my paths and icons for my buildings, and a little circle or square for any PWP that does not have an icon available.

 

[Sloom Lagoon]

Then perhaps this is better and you could make the open area south of south of town hall and the police station a nice little park for your villagers.
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Yeah that works well! Thank you, you've really helped with the layout

 

[Hypno KK]

I'd put the police station near the Town Hall or the Town Plaza. The cafe could look great on one of those locations or near the bottom of the map, overlooking the sea. I think that a good place to house villagers would be along that cliff on the side or generally on the north side of town, especially if you can get them more or less lined up. I'd probably put the campsite by a cliff.

 

[Candy83]

I got a new map! Wooo!

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So yeah, that's my map and I would like some help planning my town! I've never been very good at design, but I want this map to look good, unlike my last town! This includes: Positions for PWPs (Mainly Cafe and police station), housing for both villagers and the rest of my residents, when I get them and other stuff, like PWP themes and just paths/ landscaping!

I don't have a dream address right now, so this is probably the best I can do! Any help/ opinions would be much appreciated!

You should envision where you would want locations for addition humans' houses. You should also consider closeness between permanent Public Works Projects and what is shortly in distance. (That you may not want them too close to a residence, be it humans' or villagers'.)

In ACNLpics, I actually was methodical in planning where I wanted houses (the vicinity). And how spread out. Would there be trees in between? Where should I place The Roost Cafe? Given I have extra game copies of "Animal Crossing: New Leaf," did I really want the Campsite and/or Police Station?

I took it very far.

A lot of this is just about how you want to handle things.

 

[Sloom Lagoon]

You should envision where you would want locations for addition humans' houses. You should also consider closeness between permanent Public Works Projects and what is shortly in distance. (That you may not want them too close to a residence, be it humans' or villagers'.)

In ACNLpics, I actually was methodical in planning where I wanted houses (the vicinity). And how spread out. Would there be trees in between? Where should I place The Roost Cafe? Given I have extra game copies of "Animal Crossing: New Leaf," did I really want the Campsite and/or Police Station?

I took it very far.

A lot of this is just about how you want to handle things.

It's a good idea, I just suck at visualising it all :/ That and I can't landscape to savve my life, means that I really don't know what to do D;