ACNH Pet Peeves and Petty Complaints Thread

[VanitasFan26]

It's fairly easy to get a lot of stars by just randomly putting down furniture and fencing in no particular order. What I actually don't care for is that if you try to go a nature or minimalist look and not turn your town into a cluttered metropolitan, it's more difficult because Isabelle just wants you to 'deck your island out head to toe.'

I will try to explain what Isabelle says when she gives these statements:

"Lacking appealing scenery"

it means that you don't have enough furniture decorated your island and you don't have enough fencing. Do this make sure you put a lot of furniture all over the island and have more fencing usually I just use fences to make big gardens. Also use Streetlamps, Floor Lights, and Garden Lanterns to place all over your island. Those are the ones I would recommend.

"Landscape has potential"

it means that you need to have variety of trees planted (Saplings, Cedar Saplings, Fruit Trees) and a lot and I mean A LOT of flowers planted on the island. This one is hardest one because you really need to plant so many flowers just so that Isabelle is more satisficed and the rating should go up. It is confusing sometimes and just thought I would clear this up for when Isabelle is a bit harsh on your rating so I hope this helps out.

 

[-Blue-]

I know what Isabelle is hinting towards, but I feel like it all dictates that they want you to steer towards certain themes and there's no in-between. Which is why I don't care about getting a 5 star rating. I'd rather have the island the way I want than to have the points.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I know what Isabelle is hinting towards, but I feel like it all dictates that they want you to steer towards certain themes and there's no in-between. Which is why I don't care about getting a 5 star rating. I'd rather have the island the way I want than to have the points.

I want you to know on my 2nd island I heavily decorated it all the way with a lot of fencing, furniture, and planted so many flowers, but you wanna know something really dumb? I went to talk to Isabelle and she gave me a "1 Star Rating" (like are you for real?!) and she kept telling me that I "improved" the islands scenery but she still told me to invite more villagers to my island. Mind you I only had 6 at the time after I built the campsite and yet she still tells me this.

So I had to invite two more villagers which caused the rating to go to 5 stars. So the only reason why It didn't go up was because I didn't invite enough villagers. I have a feeling that is a flaw in the Rating system.

 

[Corrie]

I know what Isabelle is hinting towards, but I feel like it all dictates that they want you to steer towards certain themes and there's no in-between. Which is why I don't care about getting a 5 star rating. I'd rather have the island the way I want than to have the points.

I agree. I managed to get a 5 star island without really purposely following Isabelle's suggestions. I just did my own thing. Same thing with the HHA. I couldn't care less about my score. As long as I love my house, that's all I care about. I don't want to have to decorate the way the game tells me to. Kinda defeats the purpose of the "designing" aspect imo.

 

[Rosch]

Recently, I've been going around my island and decorating with plants. And it just really hit me how limited the plant furniture are. From the amount of missing variety of bonsai, cactus, and house plants from NL, and not able to put flowers in a basket like before is just so disappointing...

I want the sunflower, lady palm, rubber tree, caladium, corn plant, croton, pothos, moth orchid, and the planters back.

 

[Croconaw]

Recently, I've been going around my island and decorating with plants. And it just really hit me how limited the plant furniture are. From the amount of missing variety of bonsai, cactus, and house plants from NL, and not able to put flowers in a basket like before is just so disappointing...

Agreed. I really wanted cactuses to put around my island, but the only option was that mini cactus set. It’s nice, but I was really hoping for a full size cactus.

 

[Solio]

Agreed. I really wanted cactuses to put around my island, but the only option was that mini cactus set. It’s nice, but I was really hoping for a full size cactus.

Also: the flowers look really awkward when you display them. Like, who plucks a single flower practically at their head and puts them in a tiny, tiny vase that's smaller than the flower itself? It looks so wierd!
I wish we could craft bouquets or planters from the flowers... After all, they had no problems giving us dozens of flower crowns to craft.

 

[Orius]

I suck at fishing because I have bad reflexes... so yeah, say goodbye to completing the "Cast Master" achievement. lmao

 

[Bluebellie]

I suppose I just ruined my island terraforming. I guess now I have to figure out how to fix it.

 

[Kg1595]

I suck at fishing because I have bad reflexes... so yeah, say goodbye to never completing the "Cast Master" achievement. lmao

I need sound in order to properly fish— the fish splashes are just too hard to see sometimes, especially if a tree or sometime is blocking my view.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I suppose I just ruined my island terraforming. I guess now I have to figure out how to fix it.

You remind me of myself when I had my old island and I went too overboard with terraforming. I know what it feels like.

 

[Bluebellie]

You remind me of myself when I had my old island and I went too overboard with terraforming. I know what it feels like.

Yeah I don’t even know how it got to this point. I thought I was pretty happy with my island except for this small portion on the top of my map (the secret beach redd area). It looked ok before, and I wanted to make it look better. It looks worse now. It seemed like an easy task before I started.

 

[deerteeth]

I suck at fishing because I have bad reflexes... so yeah, say goodbye to never completing the "Cast Master" achievement. lmao

Try relying fully on sound rather than sight! I always listen but never look and it makes fishing WAY easier!
I'll turn my volume up, cast my line, make sure the fish is going for it, then look away from my switch and just listen for the correct sound. You can get that achievement, I believe in you!!

 

[Orius]

Try relying fully on sound rather than sight! I always listen but never look and it makes fishing WAY easier!
I'll turn my volume up, cast my line, make sure the fish is going for it, then look away from my switch and just listen for the correct sound. You can get that achievement, I believe in you!!

Thanks, I'll give it a shot. lol

I still don't like how it's so easy to make a mistake though to lose that achievement altogether. lol Especially when I get nervous very easily with my anxiety condition. lmao

 

[JKDOS]

When making a design, you can preview how it looks as face paint, tile, and easel, but you cannot preview how the design would look as a phone case. Making the perfect phone case requires changing the design, and then opening the crafting menu, and repeating until everything looks the way you want it.

 

[Bluebellie]

How tedious it is that I need to expand a house soo many times before I’m able to customize or move the mailbox. All I want is a tiny house.

 

[VanitasFan26]

How tedious it is that I need to expand a house soo many times before I’m able to customize or move the mailbox. All I want is a tiny house.

I know! Its really frustrating when you try to store stuff and yet your storage is so low that you have no choice but to upgrade your home just to expand the storage. I remember in New Leaf where if you have a Cabinet it had like 3 slots of storage that you can put your stuff inside. I originally was going to have a small home on my 2nd island but because storage space was low I was forced to upgrade it.

Don't get me wrong I love having storage space, but I should not have to pay so many bells just to add a new room that actually adds to the storage. I wish cabinets and wardrobes had their own extra storage where you can put stuff in it, similar to how it was in the original AC on GameCube.

 

[-Blue-]

Recently, I've been going around my island and decorating with plants. And it just really hit me how limited the plant furniture are. From the amount of missing variety of bonsai, cactus, and house plants from NL, and not able to put flowers in a basket like before is just so disappointing...

I want the sunflower, lady palm, rubber tree, caladium, corn plant, croton, pothos, moth orchid, and the planters back.

I miss the dandelions that would turn into white puffs that could be blown away.

 

[Firesquids]

I'm so tired of Orville's endless dialog. The devs seriously couldn't have come up with a better system than him asking you a million questions and if you answer one wrong you have to start from the beginning?

 

[Croconaw]

I'm so tired of Orville's endless dialog. The devs seriously couldn't have come up with a better system than him asking you a million questions and if you answer one wrong you have to start from the beginning?

The dialogue alone honestly made Orville one of my more hated characters. I can’t stand all of that unnecessary dialogue, and it’s worse when you need to start over. I wouldn’t be button mashing if his dialogue weren’t so damn long and rambly.