[quote name='Daisydog']Converse, I failed horribly at marking acres! They seem to overlap and not even make it to the beach. No perfect town rating here. I'm just throwing flowers everywhere to see if that eventually adds up to perfect status. What I hate is that I have
too many trees in certain areas, but since there are flowers in that same acre, it somehow makes it OK and doesn't give me the "too many trees" message. I have no idea if that is messing the whole thing up or what, but all these trees are driving me crazy
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Thanks for the input. I finally figured out that a few of my marking were off, and I was able to get it all lined up. I'm a little anal retentive about this kind of stuff, so I had created a digital graph paper in Excel where I was mapping out my town. I finally finished tonight and it's all making sense now. It's so much easier to have it all mapped out on the computer, because I can calculate easily how many trees, what kind of trees, flowers, etc. in each acre and adjust appropriately. I want to get the perfect town rating and the golden watering can to add to my collection.
On a side note, I donated enough to get the extra bridge in town, and they gave me two really weak options on where to put it. I assume it'll be constructed within the next week, but I was disappointed I couldn't choose where it went. My next goal is to donate to the town fund another 400K bells for the fountain and then I'll work on paying off my mortgage on the 2nd floor.
I'm totally loving this game still. I really enjoy the "Sim City" aspect of creating the town in the model that you want, not to mention the financial side of playing the stalk market, selling items, and all of the little jobs along the way. I'm not much of a collector in the game, but the challenge of catching new bugs and fish every month will keep me involved for many months yet I suspect.