Topic: Has anyone lost interest in ACNL?

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Kinda the opposite. Actually getting more into it - been playing daily in my current town since 5th Jan (60 days). My playstyle seems to be working really well for me, so I'll share a few tips:

• Avoid time-consuming routine. What killed the game for me in my original town was having a ton of non-native / perfect fruit trees and methodologically harvesting all of them every day, which took up to an hour before I even got started on other stuff. This got really boring. In my current town, I have maybe 10 non-native fruit trees that I harvest very rarely - pretty much only when I'm really cash-strapped, or a villager requests something.
• Use the island to harvest money... when you actually feel like it - The island is an excellent source of cash. One trip can easily net 250,000 Bells upwards. Some say this makes the game too easy. It does... if you do it tons. Sure, if I'd spammed the island a ton, I could have the biggest house, every available Public Works Project built, and millions in the bank by now. I'd also have stopped playing weeks ago. So I hit the island when I actually want to pay something off. Which is maybe once a week, if that. My house only has 2 rooms and my village has around 9 PWPs. I have a big backlog of stuff I want to do. That's important. That's what keeps Animal Crossing fun.
• Spread your fish / bug catching out over the month - Every month, you've got a new quota of fish and bugs to catch. Don't religiously attempt to capture the lot in the first day - you're gonna be frustrated trying to grab the rarer ones and then bored for the entire rest of the month. Like everything else, do your catching when you actually feel like it. Check to see if you're still missing anything towards the end of the month, sure, but there's no reason to sweat it at all when it's not even the 20th yet.
• Don't oversize early - Our videogame-trained brains see those loans from Nook and tells us to pay it off as quickly as possible. Getting the biggest house is The End Goal, right? And getting there means you've Cleared The Game, which is what you've gotta try to do. Yeah? Well... not really. As above, if I'd focused on grinding cash I could have paid off my entire house months ago. But what would I do with it? What would I fill it with? A single room's furniture can take a long time to fill up. So only expand when you actually need more room. Really consider what you want to put in your rooms to make them look great. Come up with something cool and interesting. _{Mario furniture doesn't count as interesting any more by the way, literally every single player's house has that room.}
• Throw it out, start again - What do you do when you've finished a room? It stays in tact, looking awesome, forever. Problem is, once you've furnished all your rooms, what do you do? It's difficult to bring yourself to throw all that hard work out, but do it anyway. Not all the time, just when you feel like it. If your house isn't full-sized yet, consider completely redoing an existing room rather than adding a new one. My main room started out with a natural theme - green and wooden furniture and a ton of plants. After about a month, I replaced the entire room with customized black-and-red Astro furniture. And this week all that's been sold off and replaced with Pavé furniture. Towards the end of March, I plan to sell it off again and go for a Sleek furniture set.
• Give yourself extra projects - I don't mean PWPs. I mean find creative ways to fill your museum 2F exhibits. I mean dedicate a portion of your village to growing a bamboo forest, or a flower garden, or a park. I mean find something really awesome to do with your basement other than storage. Give yourself things to do that aren't things the game has told you to do. Work on them for weeks. They're well worth it. I spent a week or so turning my first museum exhibit into an art gallery with cool checkerboard seating. I turned another into a flower garden, and the third into an ocean floor exhibit - presenting my music boxes amongst other shells collected from the beach. It takes time to come up with ideas, and longer to make them a reality, but that's exactly what keeps Animal Crossing interesting.
• Priority number 1: Befriend your villagers - I'm sure I'm not the only one who's found in the past that over time I interact less and less with my villagers and start finding them to be little more than distractions from The Real Goal of harvesting cash. Don't fall into that trap. Keep talking to your villagers every day. You'll grow to like them, or find certain ones to be jerks. They might share a limited pool of set personalities, but our minds are great at creating distinctions between characters even when there isn't one. It sounds a bit crazy but it is a psychologically recognized thing (the name of which I forget). Your villagers are the life and soul of your village, so keep chatting to them, doing their inane tasks, writing them daft letters, etc. When you're genuinely disappointed, 2 months in, about a villager planning to leave, then you're doing it right.

The super tl;dr version: DO ALL THE THINGS. And do even more things. At no faster than your own pace. That's how to make Animal Crossing rock.