I'm looking forward of starting my new town 'Tampopo' on my second DS today
But I would love to have some tips from the veterans...
I would like my town to be more organized (yet natural) and I placing my dream villagers would be risky if nothing was built around -i'm afraid i will regret-
Well, you should get all pwps from all the villager personalities. Once you get all the pwps, place the PWPs around town and landscape. And when you're done, start getting your dreamies! You should plot reset once you do, why? You could have a dreamy plotted and you don't want them until you get all the pwps and complete landscaping your town.
Don't move anyone out, just use them as pwp tools. And if you get all the pwps from a certain personality, move them out and get more of the same personality.
Just start out in order. Like you want lazy pwps, get 5 lazy personalities. And if you're done with lazies, go with 5 Jocks and so on.
Im no veteran, but i would do villagers first. That way no animal could force you to redo your paths or something. I would do some villagers than work around them and then do the next set work around them and so on. So by the time the latter villagers roll around you have an idea on what you wanna do.
I'm almost done with my town Cotton, but I have to say I can't risk getting new dreamies since everything is so 'built' :I (PWP, residents, landscaping....) don't have the space to plot reset :I
Well, PWPs can be demolished anytime (unless it's permanent ones like cafe or police station), so I'd suggest setting up some temporary PWPs. Like if you have a big empty space you wanna turn into a park or something later, place big PWPs like fence or fountain so villagers won't plot their house in that area. Or if it's somewhat small area you can place simple benches or fire hydrants.. That would make plot resetting lil bit easier. Then when you have most of your dreamies and lot of PWP suggestions from your villagers, you can start landscaping / organizing your town C:
I focused on plotting my villagers in the right spot first then did the landscaping.. After I got all my dreamies & PWPs that I needed, I had to wreck a few PWPs and rebuild them to replace all my bridge to fairy tale ones. And some areas I just wanted to re do the landscaping. So yeah worry about your villagers first. PWPs and landscaping can be re-done & fixed later on c: but villagers house can't just be picked up & put on different spot (sadly) xP
I restarted in november and had planned to let the town grow up and change organically the way the game is "intended" and I did for a while and was happy for a little while, but once I started to place landscaping stuff and pwps and have my paths like I liked them I started to get really tired of the villagers taking out all my hard work as they moved in and out.
Even though I hadn't planned to I ended up deciding to pick out set villagers and delete my 4th character (who I had already invested 1.5 mil into the house for) to start plot resetting those chosen villagers and it has proven very frustrating because now I have very very specific areas I want them to be and they are so determined to plop down right in the middle of hybrids or paths or perfect peaches or whatever and I end up resetting forever because I didn't just plan out the villagers from the beginning.
If you know who you want and have a lot of patience I'd say get as many as you can when you start, if you're lucky you may get one or even two as your first 5, then reset for the next three, the predictable personality ones (uchi, smug and whichever other personality you're missing) that way you have at least some permanent residents set up from the start. (I did this with my secondary town that I have at the moment and managed to struggle through resetting for all 4 of the startup move ins giving me 5 of my dreamies for the town from the very start (since one of my starters was a dreamie)
Definitely place some pwps or filler pwps as you figure out where you're going to want things, so that the space is there when you're ready to put in bigger stuff, but getting villagers into sensible places is such a hassle once you've been developing the town a while.
If you want your Dream Villagers to plot their houses in a specific place, definitely place temporary PWPs around your whole town. This will limit their plot choices, and it saves a lot of time. From my personal experiences, after placing the maximum amount of PWPs, it took me anywhere from 40 minutes - 6 hours of plot resetting (only done this with 5 of my Dreamies right now). It's still up to chance as to where they're going to plot though.
