Your Town resetting experience?

[tokkio]

I've seen many people reset their towns, and I wanna hear your experience on it if ever you've reset! Like, what're the pros and cons you've seen about it, how you managed to let go of dreamies you've already had, how hard it is to start over, etc!

... because personally.. I've been thinking about resetting my town because my town map is so boring and it sucks a lot.. and my mistakes on my camp/cafe/police station placement T__T but I'm still really complacent because... I already have 8 of my dreamies huhuhu

I'm interested in reading about your experience!!

 

[patriceflanders]

well, I lost my original town after playing intensively during that release summer (2013); had 9 dream villagers, 4 full paid houses, a nice layout, nice amount of savings...

I took me two weeks to want to start again and it wasn't easy. After a year the new Paarl was more or less at the same level as the first one. Looking back, I like the second Paarl better and somewhere I'm "glad" I had to restart.

My children (3) all have their own copy of the game and I found it hard helping them, especially getting their dream villagers (imagine not having to look out for 10, but for 30 !), getting the T&T, getting the right PWP's (alteration of station and town hall in particular),...

A few tips:
- never go with a layout that in your eyes isn't perfect
- get the right fruit (whatever that is)
- try to get at least one dream villager amongst the starters (helps to keep you motivated)
- focus on achieving a certain goal within a certain period (maybe make a list)
- ...


good luck and about those dreamies: TRY to get friends to hold them for you (that's one of the advantages of a new town: you can easily get 5 in pretty quick)

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ohhh get inspired here (all maps -non ram editored- available in New Leaf)


http://24.media.tumblr.com/ced374bfeb89bdbc91b72bcd97a5dcd9/tumblr_mo7p62s89d1svownfo4_1280.png

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http://www.belltreeforums.com/showthread.php?293303-do-you-ever-feel-the-urge

 

[tokkio]

oh wowza thanks so much for all that! especially for the link to the maps! hmm.. kinda really makes me wanna reset hahah

 

[patriceflanders]

you can always try to keep your cake AND eat it :

buy a second copy, reset, move everything and later use that extra copy as a cycling town

 

[tokkio]

bump...?

 

[kiti_in_wonderland]

I've reset my town 3 times, and for me I'm so happy I did. I got the game when it first game out, and just jumped right into it not really thinking or planning anything. I reset it because I had oranges as my native fruit (which I dislike A LOT), and in my second town had cherries and chester as my neighbor (the first villager I ever liked). I reset one more time after taking almost a year break and not liking my map yet again, and now I love it. I feel like my whole town layout is perfect, and I have all my dreamies (the first town I ever used forums and traded to have villagers I wanted). It's hard at first to start over because you realise how much work you have lost, but it's also a great opportunity to do things the way you like!

 

[Kirindrake]

When I first got ACNL, I didn't consider anything like "dreamies"; what I got was what I got, and I was pretty good about what I got, too, for the most part (I didn't know ANYTHING about villager resetting!) minus Diva and Hippeux. Didn't know anything about The Bell Tree Forums and I didn't make communications with people on forums, so I was pretty much "on my own" (minus a couple IRL friends).

New Year's day came around, and I reset (cuz I wanted to ). I spent like 3 days or something resetting (wasn't really looking for a specific map, more of I was looking for oranges and decent villagers). I did get this one town that I thought was cool (Town hall and ALL of the villager homes were crammed into ONE corner in the map), but I ended up letting it go very quickly because it just didn't work out. I eventually got this one map with pretty decent villagers and oranges as I wanted at the time, and I ended up getting a REALLY good map and I didn't even think about it. Still didn't think much of dreamies at the time until around the end of my time with that map, but I did miss a couple of my old villagers for awhile.

I have to say, I was FAR in development of Keydrake (second map). Heck, around the end, I got the Emporium! But I decided I was running out of excitement, I was starting to get bored of it, so I ended up letting it go and starting new again. Surprisingly, I only took just a couple of hours or so to get the map I have this time. So here I am on round 3 (kinda), and I'm working on a list of dreamies. I already have some villagers in mind from my past experiences, (like Papi who was residing in Keydrake; I love him sooo much,) so we'll see about that.

I think of my villagers that I miss, are Rodeo (first town) just a little, and Papi (previous town) a fair amount. I did have merengue and rudy, so I kinda miss them, too since they were cute, but idk if I'll be aiming to get them in my town. As for the starting over part, it depends on how rich you are. I emptied out just about all of my IGB for TBT here on the forums, so I technically "still have my money" in a way. If you want your IGB back in your new town, you shouldn't suffer too much, but because I'm making all of my bells in-game (at least I plan it to be that way) rather than on the forums, I do have a bit of pain having to squeeze out whatever bells I can to finish a stinking bridge QUQ Oh well.

ANYWHO! Before I make this long enough to be tagged as an essay, I'll leave it with a form of summary: I do miss a couple of my villagers, but 1 I'm not attached to and the other I plan to get in this town. I'm broke, so it's a bit hard, but I'm okay with it because I know that once I really start working on getting the bells I'll be able to pull through (also if I really couldn't I could get bells here on TBT). Town resetting can take awhile if you're really picky, but sometimes, (if you're lucky,) you can get something good fast.

Hope this post isn't TOO long for you If you manage to read it all I tip my hat to you and give you a cookie.

 

[tokkio]

Hope this post isn't TOO long for you If you manage to read it all I tip my hat to you and give you a cookie.

meheh don't worry I read it all lol I actually like reading long replies to this thread bc i really want to know others' resetting experience so thank you

 

[Le Ham]

I left Stardust in the dust (pls don't kill me) mainly because I was sick of my mayor's hideous name. I should've just used my own normal name, but no. I decided to make one up and suffered as a consequence. It's the reason I made a second character, and then just decided I wasn't going to deal with it.

Spoiler: Some other minor reasons I reset:

I had chosen the first map I saw because it was my first town. It was a very good map, don't get me wrong, very ideal to some people (no private beach, apples, one pond), but I figured if I actually tried for a better map I could get one.
I didn't base my town off of any theme, and I also didn't know that Stardust was actually a movie or something. Could've confused some people into thinking my town was based off of something.
It was a very natural town, and I made a point to not use paths on the main roads. Those things are hard to maintain, though. If I forget to plot reset, boom, there goes a week's worth of bushes and trees, and I have to spend at least another week working my way around those with more bushes and trees. Picking flowers and things in the way is a chore. Keeping the dirt path worn and free of grass is a chore. Sometimes I had no choice but to use just flowers as path borders (like on the edge of the river, for example) and that was ugly and annoying. I also had some PWP things that made it weird, making me keep having to adjust them by the slightest amount of units.
Any possible rookie mistakes I could've made with the campsite or police station (I think they were in pretty good spots, though) would have been taken care of with a new town. Any rookie mistakes I made with planting trees or bushes could be fixed, too.
My villagers were starting to move into worse and worse areas, and I was eventually just done with having to cope with it.
I had finished everything on Main Street, got the fortune shop, got all my emotions, gold HHA badge, all fossils, I was basically finished with the town.

In restarting, I felt like I was moving up a level in maturity. This was a town I wanted to keep all through my high school years, so I gave it some meaning... until I stopped playing it mid-September and never picked it back up until mid-May. Oops. But I'm working on it, and I feel like the change was worth it.

 

[Kirindrake]

meheh don't worry I read it all lol I actually like reading long replies to this thread bc i really want to know others' resetting experience so thank you

Oh, awesome then! Glad I could drop my own experience here for you to read. ;3