What would you consider a finished town

[cats_toy]

We all know you can play ACNL practically forever. Maybe though, you want to start a new town and give it 100% without splitting your time between multiple towns. How would you classify your town as done!

My definition of a finished town would include the following:

*Collect all badges (excluding streetpass)
*Complete museum
*Open all shops on Main Street
*Get all Dr Shrunk emoticons
*Complete all upgrades on mayor house-including furnishing all rooms. This would include any extra characters as well.

So how would you define your town as finished?

 

[Hsn97]

For me it would be:

Completed museum - fish / bugs / fossils / art / unlocked & designed 2nd floor rooms
Unlocked all gold tools
Completed catalog
Unlocked all emotes
Unlocked all buildings / building upgrades
Unlocked all PWPs (don’t necessarily have to have them all built)
All badges unlocked
Come first in at least one bug off and fish tourney
Experienced every event / special day in the game at least once

I personally don’t think I’ll ever feel like my main town is complete because I always end up wanting to redo certain areas of the town with new plants, PWPs etc. I’m never happy with how it looks so I don’t think I’ll ever dub it as complete XD.

 

[Snowesque]

I agree with your and Hsn97's lists aside from the decoration/house upgrade aspect.
I think less or smaller rooms can look quite nice.

The main thing I would count for myself is non-catalog items as well, they can be quite fun to collect during events such as the Harvest Festival (ie: ingredients). It is sort of an extra hidden task! One other thing I would include is getting good scores and clearing every Desert Island Escape level. The Ikada trophy is not in the catalog, but it is understandable.

 

[LadyDestani]

I think it depends on what my goal is for the town. For my main town, I have a more completionist attitude, but even then I don't feel like I need to redo everything on my alt. My alt is mainly there for aesthetic purposes, so I don't feel like investing the time to work on his badges, encyclopedia, etc.

I will feel like my main town is 'done' when I've finished all of the following things (although I'll continue to want to play it and enjoy my villagers and the fruits of my labor):

- Fully completed Main Street (Done)
- Fully completed Museum (Done)
- Fully completed encyclopedia on my mayor (Done)
- Collect all badges on my mayor (WIP)
- Unlock all emotions from Dr. Shrunk on all characters (Done)
- Expand each character's house to my desired level and pay off all associated loans (Done)
- Finish decorating each character's house (Done)
- Finish landscaping my entire town, including placing and paying off all PWPs that I want (Done)
- Finish decorating the rooms on the upper level of the Museum (Done)
- Obtain all of the Fortune Cookie items (Done)
- Complete Puzzle League and Desert Island Escape with my mayor, including obtaining all special items (Done)
- Obtain all of the golden tools on my mayor (Done)
- Obtain and maintain Perfect Town Status for as long as possible, but if my desired landscaping affects the status I'll let it drop (Done)

I don't care about completing my catalog beyond what's needed for the badge. I don't have a full set of dreamies and will contine to cycle through villagers, so obtaining dreamies isn't a goal for me. I will continue to work on obtaining my villager's pictures, but since they will continue to rotate that task will never be complete. There are certain events I will always participate in, but some I don't like and don't care for the rewards so I skip them.

That's for my main town, but if I make an additional themed town, I think my focus will mainly be on the aesthetics. I would probably consider that town complete after I got the landscaping, characters, villagers, and houses to all look exactly the way I wanted.

 

[stacyadams]

For me, it's a town that looks the way the owner intends it to look.

 

[visibleghost]

i only think of the aesthetics, when the town is filled and fully decorated and all houses are decorated as much as the player wants, it's finished. i have a pretty much finished town with no more room for anything and a few unfinished rooms but other than that it's pretty much finished.

 

[cats_toy]

I think it depends on what my goal is for the town. For my main town, I have a more completionist attitude, but even then I don't feel like I need to redo everything on my alt. My alt is mainly there for aesthetic purposes, so I don't feel like investing the time to work on his badges, encyclopedia, etc.

I will feel like my main town is 'done' when I've finished all of the following things (although I'll continue to want to play it and enjoy my villagers and the fruits of my labor):

- Fully completed Main Street (Done)
- Fully completed Museum (Done)
- Fully completed encyclopedia on my mayor (Done)
- Collect all badges on my mayor (WIP)
- Unlock all emotions from Dr. Shrunk on all characters (Done)
- Expand each character's house to my desired level and pay off all associated loans (Done)
- Finish decorating each character's house (Done)
- Finish landscaping my entire town, including placing and paying off all PWPs that I want (Done)
- Finish decorating the rooms on the upper level of the Museum (Done)
- Obtain all of the Fortune Cookie items (Done)
- Complete Puzzle League and Desert Island Escape with my mayor, including obtaining all special items (Done)
- Obtain all of the golden tools on my mayor (Done)
- Obtain and maintain Perfect Town Status for as long as possible, but if my desired landscaping affects the status I'll let it drop (Done)

I don't care about completing my catalog beyond what's needed for the badge. I don't have a full set of dreamies and will contine to cycle through villagers, so obtaining dreamies isn't a goal for me. I will continue to work on obtaining my villager's pictures, but since they will continue to rotate that task will never be complete. There are certain events I will always participate in, but some I don't like and don't care for the rewards so I skip them.

That's for my main town, but if I make an additional themed town, I think my focus will mainly be on the aesthetics. I would probably consider that town complete after I got the landscaping, characters, villagers, and houses to all look exactly the way I wanted.

Thanks LadyDestani for the reply! Your list reminded me of some I forgot to add to my own list,

*Fortune Cookies
*Puzzle League/Desert Island Escape (Completely forgot about these)
*Villager Pics

 

[LadyDestani]

I actually forgot two items from my list. I don't care about completing the full catalog beyond the 80% required for the gold badge, but I do care about owning all of Gulliver's items and K.K.'s songs. I prefer to get them all through interacting with those NPCs too, although I will buy a few albums from Timmy & Tommy because it would take well over a year to get all of the music directly from K.K. since you only get 1 per week.