What did you look for in your map & why

i was a fool and reset for the map with the heart pong and peaches completely forgetting that terraforming was a thing and I could always just add my own heart pond later 😔 im too far in to reset but i really hate my resident services location
 
I wanted to be sure that the town plaza was right above the entrance to the airport, just like in New Leaf i made sure that the town plaza was directly below the train station. Idk I just like it more that way. I didn't care too much about what fruit/color airport I got. :>
 
I didn’t really look for much.

I just wanted my airport and plaza relatively close and for there to be a decent amount of land for the 2nd and 3rd tiers.
 
I just wanted the resident services in the middle of it. But I also resetted for apples.
 
It took me three days of resetting to find the map I liked. I was ultra picky because I didn't want to assume that I would enjoy terraforming so I wanted to love it as-is. Airport color and fruit weren't important to me, thankfully, or else who knows? I might still be resetting!
 
I've never really cared about my maps so I just picked the one out of the original four that I liked the best.
 
Same as above.
I hadn't thought much about the maps before I got the game, so just chose the one I thought looked the most fun to explore.
 
I wanted a heart pond, even spacing all around, east to south river, RS semi-close to the beach but not too close, and peaches as my town fruit!!
 
I just picked one of the first four. I straightened out my river because it was super curvy and took up too much space. I built 6 steel bridges and 7 stone stairways so that I never have to use a ladder or vaulting pole in my town. And I moved all my villagers into a little neighborhood on the east side of the island.

I still have a lot more decorating to do, but I'm happy with the layout.
 
The main things I cared about were having two water outlets into the sea that weren't both south, yellow airport, resident services close to and lined up with or near enough with the airport! Not that it sounds like it haha but was much less fussy that with NL thanks to the wonderful freedom with terraforming in this version! But got SO lucky and got my perfect map without resetting at all - absolutely love it :)
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I just wanted a blue airport tbh. The map I got with was okay. Centeredish plaza, west and south river exits. The only complaint I had was how horrible the 2nd and 3rd levels were. Spent like 3 days terraforming it lol.
 
Also interested to know why people prefer the jutting out land to be on one side rather than the other - is it purely visual or some sort of other reason? Cheers :D
 
I just realized residence services is ugly and now I dont want it parallel.... I found a great map but I just dont like the red airport cause the roof looks like a stop sign and I want a yellow one to match my switch.. this is taking forever now I'm on my second day I must've reset a hundred times maybe... and I'm worried I'll never get to the cherry blossom event I hope I can tt or somthing but I also dont wanna miss bunny day!!
 
I used one of the 4 presented. I wanted my resident services in front of the airport by the beach and two south facing rivers.
And peaches or cherries. Got cherries
 
At first I did just go with whichever one was gave to me and got a feel for a game but the whole time I was just itching to reset and couldnt wait
 
i wanted resident services to be around the middle of the map and i wanted peaches as my native fruit, two things i managed to get after 6-7 resets :3
 
I wanted something upside down Y shaped because I thought it would make it easy to line up houses in vertical rows. It's a bit of a hassle with the beach being split up sometimes, but on the other hand, it gives me more chance to make each section of beach have it's own theme so I like it.

I actually got a great Y map on the first go.
 
wanted a native fruit that wasn't pears or cherries. wanted the airport to be a color I liked. yellow, orange, or blue. I don't recall how much time it took, plus it wouldn't be entirely accurate, as I did it while I was out of the house. 'cause I wasn't resetting super consistently.
I kinda wish Resident Services was in a better place, but I might be able to make it look less awkward once I can start terraforming. I hope so, anyway. it's very close to the one river, which I'm not crazy about. I got apples for my fruit, and my airport is blue.
and uh, I did it 'cause I wanted stuff that I like, or at least don't mind.
 
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