Your Current Layout - How many times did you reset and what were your criterias?

[SummerHime]

I see lots of "Should I reset?" threads around and I am myself a big fan of serial resetting. When I set up my town, my layout had to be perfect . I wanted:

- A long beach with a ramp at each end
- Apples, peaches or cherries (I got peaches)
- Retail close to the beach
- A nice place for my house
- At least one villager I loved (I got Anabelle)

I also preferred (but it was not a dealbreaker):
- Triangle grass (I got square)
- No gorillas or monkeys (I got Al -_-)
- Few ponds (I got only one)

I ended up having to reset 11 times for this (I kept track of them all).

How about you? How many times did you reset? What were you looking for exactly?

 

[leobloom]

I only had to reset a couple of times (like 4 I think) for my most recent town. the only things I really look for are a long strip of beach and a plaza right in front of the town hall :') starter villagers don't matter that much to me since they can always move out eventually if you don't like them

 

[AkaneDeath]

I wanted apples, no skinny patches of land, and the ability to have a pathway that went directly down from the entrance to main street. I also needed to be able to have an area where I could eventually line up my human characters houses and my villagers homes. I started out way more picky than that but that's eventually what I settled on. It took me three hours, I think?

 

[Honeybun26]

Honestly, I didn't reset once for my current town. I looked at all of Rover's maps and choose the one that suited me best. My only criteria was that everything was spaced apart and that the river didn't take up too much space. I didn't care what fruit I got because you can always plant new types of fruit later. The same goes for my villagers.

 

[Kirbystarship]

I'm not really to picky on the map. I look for a map that have the building next to each other.

 

[RaineyWood]

I honestly don't remember the exact number but it was a few times.
I really want to reset my town because I don't particularly like the layout of my current town but I've put so much effort into it I can't bring myself to do it.
I might just try to get a new copy and do crap with that one. Make it "perfect" by my standards.

 

[Chris01]

With my current layout I only ended up reseting about 6 times, normally its anywhere between 20 and 30 times, usually my only prerequisites are:

-Left hand side facing beach
- one pond
- beach can either be one beach or split into two smaller ones, doesn't bother me.
- not bothered about native fruit (although I love peaches)
- the town hall has to be in the top half pf the town, near to the gate and so does recycle.

 

[axo]

My criteria

-The beach by the dock MUST MUST MUST be the longer beach!
-The retail cannot be off to the side somewhere, it's gotta be convenient
-The villager houses shouldn't be super spread out, I want to be able to go to multiple houses without too much walking
-I want peaches, oranges, or apples. Not a deal breaker
-No square grass (unless it's a perfect town otherwise)
-Must have one villager I like pretty well
-Town hall and retail preferably all in one section of the river.
-No villager house all by itself. It makes me sad to see one villager all alone on the north side when the others are all together.

 

[moonrisekingdom]

apples(i'd prefer) or pears, circle grass, green/blue/brown roof train station, not the yellow town hall exterior.

my current map(and the only style map i actually like):


took me maybe two hours to find it on and off re-setting.

 

[SummerHime]

I love seeing the likes and dislikes of everyone The long beach seems pretty popular!

my current map(and the only style map i actually like)

Wow, how'd you get your villagers so close together? You're so lucky, they've all build their house in the same spot at the left. Mine just seem to build in my backyard or frontyard -_-

This looks amazing!

 

[leftTBT]

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[RaineyWood]

I love seeing the likes and dislikes of everyone The long beach seems pretty popular!



Wow, how'd you get your villagers so close together? You're so lucky, they've all build their house in the same spot at the left. Mine just seem to build in my backyard or frontyard -_-

This looks amazing!

There are ways that you can plot their houses.
It takes a lot of time to do but it's possible.
I dunno if there's a guide for it on here.

 

[Dorian]

Too many... it was obnoxious. This is my sixth town and I wanted it perfect. Of course after about approximately one hundred restarts, you have to realize that nothing is ever really perfect. I have never reset to get an ideal village the way I did with this one. It was borderline psychotic. That said, I didn't end up with the town I dreamed of but ultimately ended up with a town I never knew I wanted. I am beyond ecstatic with the layout. The town square, town hall and resale are all in a horizontal row at the foot of the beach! It's like this quaint seaside village. I couldn't be happier.

 

[Cadbberry]

I like a split map down the middle, I reset just once until I got the buildings all near each other, like the tree, the town hall, and retail. It only took two resets to get what I wanted so I was pleased about the speedieness of getting the map I liked

 

[Crash]

for my main town, i didn't reset nearly enough times. the number one thing i didn't want again after resetting my original town was oranges as my fruit, and somehow i didn't notice and started the town with oranges. otherwise, it's a good map and i'm overall happy with it, but i've made too much progress in that town to even consider resetting again. besides my one main goal that i managed to fail at, i also wanted a river that made a little island to put my house on. i guess one out of two ain't bad, lmao.

for my second town, dewberry, i probably reset 5-10 times, maybe a few more, and i'm content with that map too. now that i've finished a good chunk of the landscaping i realized the map works out really well with my paths, so that's good. my third town, which i was planning on putting the most work into, i reset over 100 times over the course of months and still didn't find what i was looking for, so i turned it into a cycling town and i'm gonna cycle for awhile before i reset again. all of my maps in the past have looked kinda similar to each other, so for my third town i really wanted something different; a vertical river, preferably with retail/town hall/plaza on one side and lots of empty space on the other side, as few ponds as possible, and cherries as a fruit. i got so close a few times, so i'm hopeful one day i'll get my dream layout.​

 

[Bufuman]

Oh man, I had to reset SO MANY TIMES for my current village. I must've spent like 4 or 5 days (only a couple hours each time, not a massive 96-hour binge or something like that), but I may very well have hit triple digits for resets. At first I checked the town itself (and the villagers) before opting to reset, but eventually I started resetting if the 4 plots that Rover displayed didn't fit all of my criteria.

Speaking of, my criteria was basically:
-Long beach with only a small chunk isolated from the rest; none of that "two parts with one ramp each" crap.
-Ocean on the east side of town instead of the west, because that's how my old town was and it would be weird for me the other way.
-1 or 2 ponds; my first town was plagued by 4 of them because I didn't know they were effectively space-wasters.
-Re-tail either near the train station for easy selling for visitors or close to the beach for easy selling for island hauls
-No villagers that I hated on sight (I must've gotten Rasher half a dozen times). I realize I could've just moved them out ASAP, but I'd have to look at them until then, and screw that.

Eventually I got a good town with one long beach, ocean on the right, 2 ponds, Re-Tail near the middle of town (a bit closer to the dock than the station, but honestly pretty close to the middle, so the best of both worlds!), and a decent crop of starting villagers including several tier-1 villagers (Chief, Beau, Savannah, Ribbot, and Astrid).

For the record, I actually got lucky with my first village; having jumped right into the game with no prior knowledge of what I was doing (my last AC experience was way back on the original for the GameCube, and I doubt I spent more than a week before losing interest), I ended up with a relatively good town (another long beach, Re-Tail a bit out of the way but not in any of the corners, and a really nice U-shaped river that provided a good spot for my house inside the curve of the U right in the middle of town). The only downside was that it had 4 ponds, and that wasn't a huge deal in the end.

 

[x3notat]

I probably spent 20 minutes resetting, but I had a specific layout in mind so I guess I got lucky.

 

[Bufuman]

Also, perhaps the most heartbreaking choice of my resets was tentatively trying out one town with a subpar layout, and deciding to scrap it because Re-Tail was way up in the northwest corner with a river blocking all but a small path to it, making it a really inconvenient place to go to sell. The reason it was such a hard choice for me was because Punchy, who has ALWAYS been a dreamie of mine and I had never been able to get into my old town, had been one of the villagers there. He was even one of the three that had greeted me! I reset that town with a very heavy heart.

 

[Dorian]

I forgot to list my original criteria, lol:

An east to south river (fail)
Pears (check)
Five holding ponds (check)
No split beach (check)
Easy access to Retail from dock (check)

So I made out pretty well. As per my earlier post, I am thrilled with this new town.

 

[Kohaku-san]

I reset uhhh like.... 30 times or something? Took me 3 days to give up and just choose one and I did.

- - - Post Merge - - -

My usual list:
One decent villager (I got Bunnie)
No pond in front of the train station (which I got...)
No pond in potential path places (I kinda got but I can work my paths around it hopefully)
No more than 2 or 3 ponds
No villagers in front of retail or the Town Hall
No villagers close behind other villagers
No villagers in potential path places or awkward areas
A good space for the mayors home and other characters
Bridge not difficult to assess
Lots of available space for villagers to place homes and from public works projects
No apples
No rocks in awkward or potential path places (I got one right in front of the train station because I never noticed it...?)
Most of the villagers on one side of the town.