Should I restart my town?

[Erica]

I really don't know if I want to start my town over... But I really dislike it.

I'm really not satisfied with it. I don't really like it. I'm not sure if the pros outweigh the cons...

-I dislike my house placement
-I don't really care for my villagers
-I want the classic police station instead of the modern one
-There's a lot of grass wear because of my lack of planning

But the thing I'm worried about is losing everything and my progress...
-The museum donations, the fish/insects I've caught
-Badges
-Emotions
-Catalog T__T
-Public Works T__T
-The wasted bells in expanding my home, and everything I've bought
-HHA won't have any houses in it

Should I restart? I'd really like to hear other's opinions.

 

[Lin]

Yes, you should. o-o House placement is forever, so is police station I think... Unless your layout is amazing, I'd say restart.

 

[duzell]

I would have to say you should restart as well. Disliking your house placement is something that would get at you every time you load your game. It's one of the reasons that I restarted my own town. The only thing I regretted about my restart was because I had many favorite villagers.

 

[Gizmodo]

I really don't know whether to aswell i don't want to get stuck in that rut of constantly resetting/restarting again and again as happened in previous games :/
i dont like where my campsite is, and im not even sure i like the campsite, i do like my villagers, but theres many more id much rather have such as Vesta, who i could get as an original villager
but i dont want to lose my bells, my throne, rococo furniture, villager pics, the fish and insects and paintings :/ and live to regret it all, i could give them to people for storage but id be so paranoid haha
Its a MUCH harder decision to reset in this game than previous ones, the shops take so long to unlock etc
plus i destroyed my island cutting down bushes etc and i regret that

Also in Wild world, i made it so i had a picture of every villager who lived in my town, before letting them leave, i didnt do this in NL and its bugged me if i restarted i could make sure no-one moves until i have their pic hm

 

[Cranky Squirrel]

Grass regrows; villagers come and go; you can demolish your house and start over without getting rid of everything. You'd be stuck with the modern police station, but I don't know if starting from scratch because of that would be worth it. If you're satisfied with the overall map, then I'd keep it. It seems a good map is hard to come by. Most of the map layouts seem just terrible to me. Most things you can change, but once you decide on the general map, you're stuck with it.

 

[jamesflin]

If you have someone to hold any items/money you want, then I would say restarting isn't a bad choice.

 

[Erica]

The fact that I can restart gives me the freedom to time travel and get my shops and control which villagers move in and where makes it worth it.

Except like idk my progress T_T I feel like I'm cheating if I restart.

 

[Alxndr]

you can demolish your house and start over without getting rid of everything.

How do you demolish your house?

 

[Lin]

Grass regrows; villagers come and go; you can demolish your house and start over without getting rid of everything. You'd be stuck with the modern police station, but I don't know if starting from scratch because of that would be worth it. If you're satisfied with the overall map, then I'd keep it. It seems a good map is hard to come by. Most of the map layouts seem just terrible to me. Most things you can change, but once you decide on the general map, you're stuck with it.

If you demolish the mayor house, your whole town is gone... for some weird reason.

 

[Erica]

Grass regrows; villagers come and go; you can demolish your house and start over without getting rid of everything. You'd be stuck with the modern police station, but I don't know if starting from scratch because of that would be worth it. If you're satisfied with the overall map, then I'd keep it. It seems a good map is hard to come by. Most of the map layouts seem just terrible to me. Most things you can change, but once you decide on the general map, you're stuck with it.

I don't like my town map either. When I first got the game, I restarted my town for two hours to get this map. I didn't even really like it. My boyfriend was just nagging about how I was taking forever to choose a map. I warned him at the time that I keep resetting so I can get the perfect town but he just wanted me to play so he could too. (I made him wait for me to get my map before he could start playing. I'm a terrible girlfriend T___T)

 

[Cranky Squirrel]

If you demolish the mayor house, your whole town is gone... for some weird reason.

But there are two choices in Isabelle's menu. One is to "Demolish my home" and the other is to "Re-create the town." I was under the impression you can get rid of the old house without damaging the rest of the town. I guess the house demolish option is only for non-mayor characters.

 

[Lin]

But there are two choices in Isabelle's menu. One is to "Demolish my home" and the other is to "Re-create the town." I was under the impression you can get rid of the old house without damaging the rest of the town. I guess the house demolish option is only for non-mayor characters.

Well I tried demolishing my mayor's house for funsies before, and Isabelle warned me my town would be gone if I did that. o3o I'm paraphrasing but you get the idea. x.x

 

[Demeter]

I restarted a lot till I got a layout and villagers and everything I was happy with. Im glad I did

 

[Jack Dean]

i think you should restart wrong house placement is horrible thats why i restarted but if u put the beautiful town ordinance you will have hardly and weeds and lots of flowers

 

[Erica]

Thanks for the input guys! I've decided to restart! T^T

 

[Attribule]

But there are two choices in Isabelle's menu. One is to "Demolish my home" and the other is to "Re-create the town." I was under the impression you can get rid of the old house without damaging the rest of the town. I guess the house demolish option is only for non-mayor characters.

"Demolish my home" is literally Animal Crossing's "Delete character" option and always has been. You don't just clear out the house, you delete that entire character completely. The mayor can never change, and the game literally cannot operate without a mayor, so choosing the demolish option with your mayor character destroys the entire town as well.

Edit - On-topic: I personally know what it's like to hate your town. I recently restarted as well since I had one of the worst possible town layouts in the entire game (I checked). It could fit almost no public projects and there was barely even enough land for villager houses. It hurts losing the badges and museum collections but fortunately you can re-obtain them, especially if you're going to time travel to catch yourself up.

 

[MadisonCrossing]

Hmmm...that's tough. Normally I'd say no, because, believe me, you do NOT want to have the feeling of losing so much progress. If you restart, you will REGRET IT. But my town was different...I restarted just to restart. Huge mistake. But yours...you say there's a lot of problems...so I'd have to say yes. But I'm only saying that because of the cons. If you don't mind feeling a lot of regret, go ahead...it's really your decision. I'd stick with yes if you believe there's a lot wrong with it.

 

[Attribule]

Hmmm...that's tough. Normally I'd say no, because, believe me, you do NOT want to have the feeling of losing so much progress. If you restart, you will REGRET IT. But my town was different...I restarted just to restart. Huge mistake. But yours...you say there's a lot of problems...so I'd have to say yes. But I'm only saying that because of the cons. If you don't mind feeling a lot of regret, go ahead...it's really your decision. I'd stick with yes if you believe there's a lot wrong with it.

There's really no regret when it comes to pretty much despising your current town. The flaws in your entire town start burning into your mind since you have to play in that dump every day. At that point the game starts becoming less enjoyable, at least from my experience.

 

[Rose]

I really dislike it.

It sounds like you knew the answer to your question from the start.

It's absolutely essential to love your town or there just isn't really any point in making any more progress in it. Animal Crossing is about nursing your town to be the best it can be, day by day, and you should be inspired and eager to see your vision unfold.

Progress can always be regained with time, but the way to bond with your town with complete satisfaction and readiness is to know you won't have constant nagging thoughts of what you don't like about it.

 

[Gera]

I restarted last week, but now I'm very happy I restarted, got a nice town layout, the caf?, the police station and my house are in a good place, and I got the 90% of fish and bugs I had in 4 days