Town Redesign
Oh man, that is the ultimate question. Has anyone seen Mel lately? Someone light the mel-signal.
Forum Discussion
chrisp530 wrote:
I would NOT put any limited time or premium buildings in your inventory. Odds are there won't be a problem, but a number of people have posted about putting limited/premiums in their inventory and then they disappear, having to either repurchase them or lost them forever. Just move them off to the side.
I think trying to redesign an entire town is overwhelming. I try to focus on one area at a time and then build off of and work from there
Trust me, redesigning/rearranging your town is a nightmare...overwhelming is car too generous a term. I did it several months ago, when the rumors of Squidport first started and I realized I'd oriented my town the wrong way (I'm trying to recreate the Springfield from the show as best as I can).
I have all the buildings, premiums, and LT items, so it was a chore (mainly because of all the decorations, fences, etc). I didn't store anything in inventory, but bought a bunch of land squares and moved most buildings bunched in a corner, leaving most of the fences and decorations where they were temporarily to help as a reminder of how I had everything laid out. Then I began the slow process of re-placing the buildings in their new spots, slowly moving all the fences, trees, flowers, decorations, etc around those buildings, then deleting and re-placing the roads, river, concrete, grass, etc. It literally took a good 3-5 hours spread over a few days.
It was that experience that made me wish they'd add a feature where you could highlight a block or multiple blocks of land at a time and be able to move/twist that entire piece, instead of everything one by one. It'd save so much time and effort for the players when redesigning, should be relatively easy to code for the programmers, and probably even reduce some of the lag on the servers (since people redesigning their towns wouldn't have to spend as much time on the game to achieve what they want). Then you could still select individual items to move and place when needed.
But I think in many redesign cases, people just want to move a certain building or buildings and their surroundings, and that would make it much easier.
