We have 2 islands, also Pear Island in Northern Hemisphere, we have 4 players on each and on Nookadoon we created a throwaway player (Jack) to be the island Rep. We moved the 4 players to the other island until Jack started Nookadoon, then moved the players with their houses etc to Nookadoon. We did it twice, tried keeping the villagers in tents, used teraforming to create fake bridges - both times after a few days the villagers got houses. Once the villagers got houses we developed the island and filled the museum etc. Yes it involved time travel and setting the clock to 4:58 AM and restarting the day to build bridges etc faster. We Also used amiibo cards to get winter themed villagers.
So organized /.\
Originally we did not have Nintendo Switch on line and only Pear Island, we did everything the hard way, taking turns playing, diving for hours to pay off loans. As with other new players we did not even know about vaulting polls, wet suits or even how to catch wasps. We went to mystery islands and would try to figure out how to get to the higher levels. After reading on line we learned a lot, and got the Nintendo Online account which made things much easier, and having 2 islands made it easier yet, but at times I miss the old days with a new island (but not enough to give up everything) and that is why we reset a few times.
One of my regrets this time is not making a video of Tom Nook the morning he was freezing and shaking while making the morning announcement, I liked that as much watching Apollo being scared by wasps.
That looks like a really interesting map layout! Could you maybe post a tour of your island? I’m really interested to see how it looks!
You could always visit via dream address
I didn’t even notice that there at the bottom, my bad. Thanks for the heads up!
Update:
We finished the museum on Shell Isle (island after Nookadoon) and restarted it again as Cool Isle, we still need a tuna to finish the museum. I learned I like it best the first few days when the player does not have one bell to rub against another. However, time moves on and after you get so far it is better to finish it out. Setting the clock to 4:59 am allows you to restart the same day, I did not feel like waiting 2 days for Residential services to upgrade so I used that method to speed it up. Isabelle said we were level 2 and needed more residents. I used the 4:59 am trick to add villagers, after I thought we added the 8th villager Tom Nook said I could not add any more. I figured I screwed it up because I did not talk to Isabelle enough. Prior to adding more villagers She told us we were at level 2 and needed more residents. Anyhow, when I asked she said we were level 5 , a couple hours to go from 2 to 5. We are not creative, so our islands have the basics to be level 5 . We usually use 2 players with nothing to get to level 3, then move our regular players in with their houses. However this time went differently so our regular players came back after reaching level 5.
On our sister Island, my wife’s player house has passed 300 thousand score with Happy Home, I thought that was pretty good. She likes to collect photos, I think she has 60+ different villager photos. After she gets their photo she gets rid of them.
However, my favorite scene was Tom Nook shivering one cold morning as he gave the speech. Next time I will make a video.
