To bring things a bit more on topic, what are you guys planning to work on first?
YAY, someone asked.
Okay. First thing I do when I open up my town?
Name my character Philia, my town Destiny (Hope the Tales fans catch this reference... :3 ) and pick my layout to be either these...
if not available... RESET. Layout is a HUGE deal for me. You don't even KNOW.
Source and
explanation on layouts..., the reason? Rivers take up VALUABLE space that's could be useful for massive hybridization of flowers (
WW's example) or a lovely orchard set up with a bunch of foreign fruit to sell for a lot of bells after a good amount of trading with friends.
Pick my face with
"I don't remember, Moving, Not really" choices.
Pick my hair with
Forest Town and
Business/Fresh choices.
Go around and see what fruit I got. Upload my new avatar on GAF with any of these icons attached.
Everyone starts with a native "Village" fruit, you don't have any other fruit on that list. You can get more by visiting. There's benefits to this because you can sell foreign fruit for more money or your native fruits for more money in a friends' town. Anyway, I thought it'd be helpful for everyone in the thread to assign your native fruit icon to your avatar to let people know which ones you got.
There's also Two Palm fruits, unfortunately bananas don't wash up on a beach like a coconut does, so its up there with the trade icons for that purpose.
There's also Island Fruits but they're completely available solo. So no need to try to get those in trading.
Then, I'll check out which neighbors I got.
I'll list them here on GAF which ones I got. I don't personally prefer any villager except the friendly peppy ones (Rosie especially).
Next I'll head to the shops and try to get one of the tools they're selling.
Fishing Rod or Bug Net or a Shovel. These are the money making tools you need immediately imho. Axe is to clear away trees you don't like in an area. I do wish I can remove rocks though.
I'll go around my town and check out the placement of my neighbors houses and shops and see if I can pick a very nice wide area for an orchard for all kinds of fruits I'll get from trading with other GAFfers. Ditto with a garden of flowers.
After that, I'll check with GAF and see if any of my friends had added me back
and I'll go trading with them for their fruits.
I'd want to buy their tools but I imagine they'd already bought it or need it eventually. But yeah only then the next day we'll see if we got dupes that we don't need and that we can share with others.
After the bit of trading and the like, I'll see if I have enough bells to buy a nice set of outfit to match my preferred character or something. Philia wore a white robe with red sash and green embroidery. Its lovely but there's no QR right now that fits that. I'll have to mess with the design of similar ones out right now for a bit.
Depending on which tool(s) I got, the rest can happen.
After I get all that, I'll dig up every chicken scratch I find, pick up all the flowers to assign in a garden alcove somewhere. I'll go bug catching/fishing if the hours haven't passed for those specific ones or carry on for those which haven't.
Bug/Fishing can go for all day because there's still a LOT to get. After I get all of those (fossils, bugs, fish) I'll donate to the museum to make Blathers happy lmao.
I won't chop down my trees until I get all of the fruits I can get to assign to manually.
I'll keep spamming this post until everyone gets the idea of how to plan.