Would you reset?

[Moritz]

If you were able to keep your catalogue and your DIYs?

If I could try and try again until I got an identical layout to my island, but with the fruit and airport, I would.
I would erase my stamps and start over

How about you?

 

[VanitasFan26]

Well this is the notes I have for myself before I even restart. This only applies to the 2nd island and not my main island:

1. Get 10 Million Bells on both users
2. Both users must have 250,000 Nook Miles
3. Transfer all bells, nmts, and materials to the main island
4. Generate all Nook Miles into Nook Mile Tickets
5. Grab all outdoor items on the 2nd island
6. Delete 2nd user's home after all storage is cleaned out.
7. Sell all furniture into bells.
8. After everything is cleaned and cleared out delete data.

 

[Moritz]

Its sad but as crazy as it sounds, I absolutely would restart my island if I could keep my resident services and airport where it is.
I'm really unhappy with my airport color but adore the rest of my island.

Its why I'm so exited for island 2 on my second switch.
Island 2 is perfect in basically every way.

But its island 2 not 1.

 

[Croconaw]

I wouldn’t. I’m satisfied with my island in it’s current state. I have all of my dream villagers. I wouldn’t want to delete all of my progress. I also love my native fruit and airport color.

 

[Halloqueen]

I'm not wholly against the idea if I indeed was able to keep the catalogue and DIYs, but honestly, I still probably wouldn't. I've said in the past that if something ever happened to the save data, I'd probably just never play again. I think I'd still hold to that. New Horizons is enough of a time sink as it is whenever I play it even after over a year, and it would be even moreso if I had to redo all the progress I made.

 

[Moritz]

I have all of my dream villagers.

Thankfully for me I have access to every amiibo and I have a second switch to store my new horizons 8 on.
Villagers would never be a problem

 

[Croconaw]

Thankfully for me I have access to every amiibo and I have a second switch to store my new horizons 8 on.
Villagers would never be a problem

I only have the Amiibo of three of them. All of the others were obtained through trades or just finding them.

 

[Stikki]

Probably not, no. I would and have flattened, but only because I had the cash and miles to do it relatively smoothly. I would do a second island, but resetting completely gives me shivers, even with the catalogue and DIY's still there.

 

[Moritz]

I only have the Amiibo of three of them. All of the others were obtained through trades or just finding them.

If you are in the market for a specific new villager let me know as I'm in the process of moving out some. Waiting a little longer is no sweat off my back.
As I said, every amiibo

 

[azurill]

Being able to keep my DIY’s and catalogue would make it more tempting but I think I still wouldn’t. As much as I want to change my airport color I wouldn’t want to try and find my villagers again. I have most of my permanent villagers. Even though I have a second island most of that islands villagers are permanent. The only one of my permanent villagers I have an amiibo of is Roald,

 

[daringred_]

no, i wouldn't. i've sunk a year and a half into this game, and i'm not in the interest of doing that again just to achieve the same end result -- especially since i hate terraforming. it's time consuming and the interface is counter intuitive. i like the island layout i have and the building placements work just fine. i'm personally not in the interest of throwing away all the time and effort i've already put into the game thus far, even if the start of the game is sometimes the most enjoyable part. starting a second island? sure, if that was an option, but wiping the one i've already built from the ground up? never.

 

[Moritz]

As much as I want to change my airport color I wouldn’t want to try and find my villagers again.

My offer extends to you too.
If you want a villager who has an amiibo I can give them to you within an hour of being asked.
Its not much effort off my back.

(This offer is for those I like and those I trust as regular users on this site. They often overlap. If someone who has never spoken to me before sees this I won't help you. If you know me and I know you. I will)

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it's time consuming and the interface is counter intuitive.

It certainly is time consuming if your area is not empty.
But I think its very friendly to do
If you want cliff press A. If you want to tear it down press A.
Rivers are sadly harder as you need the right angles to get what you want. I wish we could see the result before we do it.

But over all I fail to see how a tile by tile way of making the island could be anything other than simple for even the most basic of beginners

 

[~Kilza~]

Not a chance. Even if I could retain all the progress I made in my catalog, my achievements, my DIYs, etc., it wouldn't be the same island that I poured hundreds of hours into, and I definitely would just have no will to keep playing the game at that point.

 

[Mairen]

I used to reset because I felt that a fresh start was rather fun in this game! However, I did it so often that I never really was able to experience "end game" with this title. I'm rather happy with my current island and took my time resetting to make sure that I had all of the parameters I wished for, so even if I could keep all recipes and such, I would choose not to reset any more (at least not for a couple years). I have finished terraforming my island for the most part and now am in the decoration stage! I'm having a lot of fun with this

 

[azurill]

My offer extends to you too.
If you want a villager who has an amiibo I can give them to you within an hour of being asked.
Its not much effort off my back.

Thank you , your offer is very much appreciated. I might take you up on it when someone decides to leave. Still sad I wasn’t able invite Friga when she was in the campsite.

 

[nerfeddude]

No way! Even if I had a chance to keep everything in my catalog, DIYs and achievements, I wouldn't reset my island. I've put so many hours into it, I would rather demolish everything and rebuild it bit by bit from the ground up if I wanted to "change the landscape". Things like fruit, airport color and placement of the resident services aren't that important for me, so I'm able to work around them.
It's not just AC tho, I hate restarting games like this in general because..."I already did this and that before, I have no interest doing it all over again because of some minor things I wanted to change"

 

[Rosch]

If there were options of transferring items and bells, then yes, I would. But to start from zero, I'll definitely pass.

 

[tiffanistarr]

I’ll buy another switch and game before i reset my island. Resetting works for a lot of people, but a lot also end up regretting it. I’m not willing to take the risk of resetting my island and never being satisfied again as i am right now. It’s a hard balance to find.

 

[CrankyCupcake]

Nope. I love ACNH, I still play it every day and have fun, but it's only one game of many others that I can play. Rather than repeat the experience by starting over, I'd play a different game.

I'm always looking for new experiences, either in old games (that have high replayability value because of different story paths or mods) or in new games. AC can be played for a very long time because of its sandbox nature. It can be the game that never ends. However, I feel its replay value is lacking because I don't think the experience will change in any significant way from playthrough to playthrough. Sure, you can be creative and do things differently, and change the theme of your island with terraforming, decorating and an entirely different set of villagers, but you can do all that without restarting too. I would not reset even if I got bored with the game. I'd simply play something else.

 

[JellyBeans]

considering I reset even without the ability to keep all of that stuff, yes I definitely would! part of me loves the idea of keeping the same island from day one of release and coming back to it over and over throughout the years, and having that sense of familiarity, but I fear I engrained some resetting habits in NL that are stuck with me now haha. Although you wouldn’t guess it from my continued AC hiatus, i do actually love being able to start fresh and implement brand new ideas and build everything back up from the beginning - the main thing stopping me from doing so to my full abilities is, of course, the lack of a fleshed out catalogue and DIY capabilities! so to actually go back to the question yes I would definitely reset if I could keep all of that