Opinion time: Organized Villagers or Free Form Villagers?

[KaydeeKrunk]

So while working on my town (that I now sadly am realizing will not be ready by Halloween...) it's slowly beginning to bother me that my villager houses are all wonky... but I am super torn between moving everyone out and re-carding them to be placed perfectly, or leaving them in the loosey-goosey manner they all are placed. I have them all in the same area, which is all I really cared about in the beginning, but now I can't really path around how they're placed. BUT part of me is like, but dude, that's so much work, gunna have to path out everywhere else in town again and it would take forever to move and plot them all into a straight line... So yeah, I am basically torn...

So I am not asking specifically for my town but for what everyone else does in their town, or prefers to see in other towns.

Are you more for the loosey-goosey feel of free plotted villagers?

Or are you more of a plot dictator, plot resetting your villagers all into the perfect places?

 

[ravenblue]

I'm working on four towns and I have freeform in two (placed tiles only where I didn't want move-ins, but let them move in wherever they wanted otherwise), and the other two I set out specific plots where I wanted them to move. I've pathed out one of my freeform towns and it was fairly easy to do. I'm not pathing the villager housing areas in the other freeform town. One of my organized towns was super easy to put pathways and the other I'm having more trouble with. I think it all came down to the map layout for me.

That said, my original town was developed before the update, I had villagers everywhere and I was so frustrated at the bad flow around my town that once I was able, I sold that town and restarted with a better map and using tiles where I don't want villagers.

 

[TangyHeart]

I let them go wherever because I feel that it adds a sense of... I don't know what you call it... Surprise? Into your game. But, I'm also too lazy to make plots so I mean.. It's probably between those 2

 

[Daysie]

I am very picky in where my villagers have to live. So absolutely organized for me.

 

[TykiButterfree]

I have placed a few lamps or other pwps to keep villagers from moving onto a flower garden I worked on or my fruit orchard, but besides that I don't really care where they move.

 

[Moon Witch]

i have patterns and pwps so they won’t plot anywhere stupid like right in front of my house or on top of hybrids, but other than that i don’t really care. i’m not a fan of having all my villagers lined up in a neat row, i prefer them to be scattered around the map, looks more natural imo.

 

[Ryumia]

For me... I prefer to organize where I want my villagers to be placed instead of having them live wherever they wanted. Don't want to go back to that frustrating time I had with my villagers living where they wanted in my town.

 

[dizzy bone]

I like to have them loosey goosey in my town.. BUT let's say it was my intention to make them all in a straight line (say in a long strip of land) but one or two are a little off the line, that would honestly bother me so much. If they can't fit in a straight line perfectly, I'd even break them up so there was 5 in one area, 5 in another etc. But in the end I guess it really depends on the way it looks in town. I've seen some villagers plotted in one long area together with one or two a bit off the line and it looked great!

 

[cornimer]

I've never once plot-reset a villager. Even if they move right where I was planning to place a PWP, I just don't have the energy to plot reset (I'll just make that villager move out later)

 

[Requity]

Absolutely organized. I can't stand when villagers plot where I don't want them to.

 

[CaramelCookie]

I have two towns. On Sundance I started playing before I joined the forums or knew anything about the game, so for a long while I didn't plot reset. After I found out about it and started growing hybrids and such, now I can't just let them ruin my work. So I place patterns and plot reset.
Hangzhou is a planned town so I decided the places for the plots right from the start. I didn't keep any of my original 5 too, so it's completely artificial plotting. Though I did some rookie mistakes still and it's not perfect, but I'm satisfied by it.

TL,DR: until Nintendo creates a better way of organizing towns and not ruining landscaping, I'll plot reset.

 

[Mu~]

Organized because of paths, plants and ocd, lol.

 

[Garrett]

Free and easy. I can decide where to place my house so I extend the same courtesy to my villagers.

 

[Nunnafinga]

I generally let my villagers live wherever but I plot reset just to make sure I don't have a "lone wolf" villager living far away from everyone else.They always seem to get less attention and they tend to not interact very much with the other villagers.I have general areas where I want the villager's houses to be but they don't have to be in straight rows right next to each other like a subdivision in the 'burbs.

 

[Jeannine]

I kinda have a combination of both. I've arranged my PWPs in such a way that prevents anyone from moving in on the top half of my map. So they all live in the lower half, but it's not organized.

 

[Spooky.]

I like the look of organized villagers and I did so in one of my towns. However, I feel like my towns where I keep them mostly 'whereever' seem to feel more at-home like, if that makes sense. Like they don't feel as 'stiff' as the one where I have them all kept in rows.
I suppose I like both for different reasons though.

 

[ShafferFamily5]

I let them live wherever, but I tend not to keep them if they park right in front of one of my buildings, like the Train Station or the Mayor's Office, or Re-Tail. I hate when they do that. :|

I've never done the whole replotting thing though...so...mostly I just cross fingers and hope for the best. xD

 

[ravenblue]

I generally let my villagers live wherever but I plot reset just to make sure I don't have a "lone wolf" villager living far away from everyone else.They always seem to get less attention and they tend to not interact very much with the other villagers.I have general areas where I want the villager's houses to be but they don't have to be in straight rows right next to each other like a subdivision in the 'burbs.

This is what happened in my fourth town - four of the starting villagers were clumped together by retail and boone was out by his lonesome near the waterfall on a long peninsula. I couldn't let him live by himself like that so I plotted some neighbors for him. Of course, once I started plot resetting, they all wanted to go up by the other villagers. I've had the hardest time getting move-ins out by boone. I've got two out there now and since he lives on a small strip of land, they're all lined up neatly since there's no wiggle room out there.

 

[PaperCat]

in my forest town its freeform. I do plot reset some to not be mega obnoxious but its pretty much villagers everywhere. I figure its a forest town, make it more organic.
my medieval town might be more organized to a degree.