Which town do I keep?

[Lily]

I?ve had my town for about three months now. I love the layout, I love most of the villagers and I?ve progressed quite far. I started the town on the summer solstice too which I think is quite cool. The only downside is that I don?t like my mayor?s face and the fruit is apples and I would have preferred peaches.

Today I was randomly resetting on my spare copy just to look at different map designs when I came across a map almost identical to my town. I went to the town and it even had peaches.

Now I?m torn whether to stick with the new town with my fav fruit and better mayor face or continue with my old one. I can?t have two towns going at the same time, I like to only have one to focus on.

The new town has benefits but it doesn?t have the same ?feel? as my current town that I feel like I?ve bonded with.

What would you do?

 

[Mr_Persona]

Welp you said you love your newer town so you can keep the newer one, its your choice.
Another thing you can have 2 towns going on the same time and your old town sounds more finish if it is, and just check on your old town everyday to see if anyone is moving out and after your done checking on your villagers in your old town, then go back on your other newer town.
So you could still keep two towns, I mean I don't see the point on why getting rid one of your towns, and also if you want to get your new town finish faster then time travel a lot, unlock new things and see who is moving out. Like I got my Twilight town done in one month and same with my Hyrule town.

 

[Nunnafinga]

In my opinion,peaches and a new face don't quite add up to good villagers and three months of progress.I've never restarted because I believe that there's always things I can change in a town to make it better without having to start from scratch.I have a mayor with freaky eyes that I don't like but I changed her hairstyle and eye color and put her in some different clothing and doing that softened the look of her weird eyes.

 

[JackABee]

I would probably keep the old one. Although a different fruit type and a new face is good, I don't think it's enough to reset a town.

 

[Pansear-and-Nana]

Get to the new town. Layouts, faces, and fruits are forever. Villagers, pwps, and categories are not so.

 

[CaramelCookie]

If you have 2 cartridges, why not keep both? It's totally doable (I've had 2 towns for over a year, some people have even 10 or more!) and you can always put one of them to sleep if you feel like it

 

[Lippysue]

I think I would go with the two for a while if you can manage it. Once you start your new town you may find it's not that much better than the old one that you have already put so much work into.

On the other hand you may love it so much it won't be such a wrench to let your first town go. Either way your decision will be easier and you won't be stressing so much about wether you made the right choice.

 

[Halloqueen]

I'd personally keep both towns, but if you only want one, I'd probably say to keep the second town and just try to reacquire the old villagers from shops on the forums here and/or with the help of the Campsite Public Works Project. Three months seems short enough to not be that much of a bother to recover from.

Alternatively, you can always just keep a log of the time and date each time you save and quit and just alternate between the two towns every few months or however long you feel comfortable with. As long as you have a record of the last time you played, you can time travel back to that date and the game will treat it as the exact same day (even stuff you bought at stores will be sold out) so no one will have had a chance to move away, no weeds will have a chance to grow, and no flowers will have a chance to wilt. From there, if you don't like time travel much, you could make Beautiful Town your ordinance if it isn't already, play a few days if necessary to see if anyone pings to move out, convince them to stay or go depending on if you want the particular villager, and then time travel to the current date so none of your flowers wilt and no villagers move out, or just the one you wanted to leave goes away. I can't say it's 100% guaranteed to work every time, but that is a recommended tactic for regrowing grass if someone's town has suffered a lot of grass erosion and I've successfully skipped a month to regrow my grass without losing anyone. It's not exactly ideal if you can't abide time travel, but it would only be a temporary inconvenience with great benefit and you could continue daily play after all is sorted.

Another alternative is to forsake headwear on your original mayor and utilize a Mii Mask so you don't have to see their eyes. Or, you can incorporate some sort of mask or otherwise face-concealing headgear like Majora's Mask, the Jester's Mask, Fencing Mask, Diving Helmet, sunglasses, or whatever else into your mayor's outfits.

 

[Clefarious]

I'd have to agree and say to keep both towns. My suggestion is trying out the new town since that one has the fruits and the face you want (which you can't change). Try it out for a bit and see how you like it. If you are loving the new town then you won't be as attached to the old one. Especially since you had only played that one for 3 months (3 years would have been a different story). Test the waters with the new one (since there's a chance the villagers you like can pop up) and if it's not all that you hoped and dreamed it would be then go ahead and go back to the old one. I feel like you'll know sooner rather than later if the new one is the village for you.

 

[petaltail]

i like the idea of keeping both towns. you can play on the new town and see if it grows on you over time; if it doesn't sit right you can always go back and play on the original one!

 

[Dracule]

Since others keep encouraging you to keep both (I’d give the same advice as well), but you really don’t want to focus on a new town, then I’d say go for the second town.

The reason you might not “feel” the same way as with the first town is because you haven’t spent time, energy, and effort into making it what you want it to be. You’ve already been doing that for your first town for months, so of course it has a connection to you.

I normally don’t encourage people to delete their first towns or focus on “second” towns (at least until they’ve finished the first one), but I think it’s good judgement to believe that you really enjoy the second town more. Go for it!

 

[Arjh]

I also like two towns In fact I actually have 3, my original town, one I downloaded as I was given Nintendo vouchers and I did have the original Animal Crossing 3ds that came out when ACNL was first released but the 3ds broke on me so just bought a new cartridge.

I like playing 2 different towns (3rd is really just for storing, bell boom allowance) as they're both different in their layouts, villagers, fruit etc and it help keeps me interested. Like you I was recently thinking of resetting as I hadn't played for a while, I then started to transfer all my furniture, bells etc to my 3rd town but in the end I decided not to and to just give it another go and I'm glad I did.

So my advice is that 2 towns can help keep the game interesting but if 2 towns is not something you're after then just go with your gut instinct and feels right on whether or not you want to reset.

 

[Dorian]

I say keep both towns. I have over twenty towns and I love them all.