MAJOR ADVICE: HELP EXTREMELY NEEDED!

[Deleted]

So I'm thinking about restarting my entire town on AC:NL.. I've come sooooo far with my town's aesthetic and look that it's hard for me to decide if I want to or not and it's very troubling but here are my concerns.

I do not have all the dreamies that I would like in my town and I VERY badly want to have my dreamies.. I know that I can edit my town as new dreamies come in, but sometimes the placement of their home is so inconvenient, it's really frustrating.. For example, what sparked all of this. Pecan (not one of my dreamies) is moving in. She is only 2 spaces away from my fire pit taking away the entire aesthetic of it. And plot resetting and very complicated to me and something I'm not very interested in doing simply because I don't want to make a whole new character and have to go through all the beginning steps before you can save, etc. If I remove the firepit, I might NEVER get a firepit again. I did some research and found out that different PWPs are connected to the personality types in your town. So if I don't happen to have the personality type at the right time in order to get a firepit (which I really really want) then I'm screwed. I think it would just be easier if I started a new town and got all my dreamies and THEN began to decorate the town. 


I think that starting over could even be fun, having a new town and a new shot at things now that I've figured out how I really want to approach the game. I would still keep the town name, but I don't think my character's name would be the same (and I might even play as a girl just because I love being girl characters, guilty as charged. I love the fashion. ^^ And the name Pearl. Plus I love drag and that kinda reminds me of it. ). I also think that it would be fun to just build up my dreamies by having villagers move in and out just to see who I happen to get! But then that scares me because I don't want to have a bunch of dirt patches everywhere.. I really like having the grass everywhere. It's so pretty.. 

So yeah, I'm super sorry about the rant. I'm just very troubled because I put so much time into this game and it would feel weird to start over, but it might also be freeing. Maybe I'm taking the game too seriously, but I've spent entire days working on my town and TTing and such. Plus I'm not sure if time travel works for getting to Tortimer Island and not having my shop upgraded will suck, but I'm sure I could get it to grow fairly quickly.. Anyways... Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated! Please!

[Mayor Desi]

It's difficult, just as you say... But if you're not willing to plot reset, then it's very difficult to get a villager to move to the exact spot you want, more or less. It's up to you though, I don't judge.
What sounded a bit weird to me was... As long as you can pay for another firepit, you can have another one. You can build another one, most of the PWPs stay in your mayor's desk and you can ask Isabelle to build another one. I don't know if I understood that well... Please correct me if I didn't.

[Deleted]

Oh, you're right! I should have probably checked that to be 100% sure before I said anything.. Embarrassing. Haha. But I think I might be really interested in plot resetting.. I just don't get all the details for sure. What I'm curious about is making sure what you're saying is that when I move my new character in, it'll make the villager with the plot go somewhere else in the town? And in that case, if they move somewhere else undesirable, can I re-reset a plot? And if so, how would you do that? And would there be a dirt plot where the new character you made be there if you were to delete their home? I apologize for all the questions. I just really want to understand this before I make a decision. Thank you for being so helpful! ^^

[Mayor Desi]

Ok, for plot resetting you need to be able to create a new character and knowing that you will get a new neighbour that day.
So. You create the character quickly. Don't mind it, you won't keep it. When you arrive to the town, look around before going to the town hall. Look for the "reserved" plot where the neighbour is going to place their house until you find it.
If you don't like it, simply turn the game off and repeat. When you finally get the house in the plot you want, you complete the registration of the new character, place their house in a place you don't mind, etc. And save the game. Then you can go back to the root menu, delete the character and continue playing.
I don't know if I explained it well with my non-mother-language English. The root of it all is that, when you start playing with an already existing villager, the game loads for a while before you come out of your house. If it happens, any plot that has been selected for a neighbour's house will be fixed with no possibilities to change its placement. This doesn't happen with a new character, so you can try with one, search for the plot and decide if it works for you or not.

[Deleted]

Oh that makes sense, thank for you explaining!! It helps me out so much!

[Seren]

That's a tough decision to make, indeed.
The thing is, even if you restart, it's not guaranteed you'll get any of your dreamies and you might end up getting one or two of them from the start but an undesirable map layout. Unless you don't care about it. Ever since I restarted my very first town in Wild World, which led to me resetting again and again and regretting I reset my town in the first place, in the following games, I stuck with my first town, even though I felt like restarting pretty often. But then again, everyone has to make their own decisions and experiences. You could take a long walk through your town and then ask yourself again: Is it worth resetting your town and the effort you put into it? You might end up deciding resetting is the best way and be happy with it. Good luck, whatever your decision will be.

[Deleted]

Thank you! I decided to reset and I'm loving it.