Being able to choose.

[ChibiCutlet]

One of the biggest things I'm happy about with ACNH, is the fact that we get to choose where we want to put our villagers.

In new leaf I absolutely hated the fact that they would move in where-ever they wanted, many paths were destroyed.

Not just being able to choose villagers locations, but also more choices to place other objects, we were quite limited in new leaf.

All in all I can't wait to see what the game brings. ^^

 

[Revolucionaria]

Yes! I?m super excited about this option - more control over what villagers you get, where they live. I know this will be great for so many people who have their towns decked out perfectly only to have an unwanted placement that they have to do all this resetting and new villager making to influence or putting patterns out to try to keep villagers out of places.

 

[Zirken Achiroda]

Oh, that is certainly something I myself look forward to, too. In NL after a while I gave up upon making bigger gardens and keeping my roads as someone always would move in and ruin the look or force me to make ugly zig-zag pathing. I feel like I will be micromanaging a lot on the island.

 

[Megan.]

Yeah me too! I hated having my paths ruined over a villager I didn't even want. I'm super excited to be able to place objects pretty much anywhere, we can really customize our islands now!

 

[creamyy]

yes I love this so much. I was pretty disappointed in new leaf how in the beginning of the game I let villagers move in and out as they pleased but as I developed my town further I only kept my 10 dreamies bc the fear of having someone move on my beautiful landscaping. It took out the fun bc once I had my 10 that I was keeping permanently there wasn't that excitement in talking to someone new. But having random villagers come and go was one of the best aspects of previous animal crossing titles so I'm thrilled that we can have reserved spots for animals because I would like the randomness to come back without hurting my landscaping. I'm so excited!

 

[DJStarstryker]

Yep, super excited for this. One memory that has always stuck out for me for NL is me building a bridge. One day later, a new villager unexpectedly plots right in front of the bridge. It took me a while to save up to demolish the bridge and build a new one, so I quickly grew to hate that villager thanks to having to walk AROUND their house every time I needed to go across that bridge. The villager messed up my bridge placement and made me feel like I'd wasted my hard earned bells. Not to mention the pathing around that bridge that got destroyed... *sigh*

I'm glad this will no longer be an issue.

 

[Jamala]

Yes it is really a good thing ! I was annoyed when a new villager was destroying my city, even more when it was an undesirable villager

 

[Mayor-of-Bliss]

I'm so thrilled for it. I feel like I dont even care who moves in as long as I can place where they are so they dont ruin my landscaping

 

[skogkyst]

It means I can isolate the villagers that I don't want to move in But that'll mainly just apply to the starting villagers

 

[meggiewes]

Yes! It will be so much more convienient! Zell is going to move into my NL town tomorrow and me plotted a little too close to my little camping area and made me a bit sad. Now I'm going to have to move him out and hopefully my next villager will plot somewhere else.

 

[LilD]

No more having to reset for good plots! Nothing worse than having a village plop right down in the middle of a project.

 

[Mothership]

Or right outside your front door, or in front of the Town Hall. Will be so nice not having to worry about that anymore

 

[Xara]

i?m super excited for this option! no more wasting hours trying to put our villagers where we want them :3

 

[meggiewes]

Or right outside your front door, or in front of the Town Hall. Will be so nice not having to worry about that anymore

UGH! I remember when Lucky moved right in front of town hall. So frustrating! I think the choosing where villagers will go easily is going to spoil us so much!

 

[AlyssaAC]

I'm glad we can choose where they go. I never liked it in New Leaf when a villager moves right in front of my house and the town hall, but mostly my house. I love placing my house near the top of towns, so there was always room for them to move in front of me, so I never liked that. X.X

Now I can have my island a little more neat and not soo crowded and randomly placed with everything. ^o^

 

[John Wick]

I'n thankful we don't have to plot reset.

Does anyone think we will be able to relocate a villager later on, like we can with our own house?

 

[Fey]

I’m glad about this feature as well, and hope we’ll know whether villager houses can be relocated later on before I start my game. I’d love to place the starter tents near mine at first, just so I see them more often while the Island is still empty, and to have like a little campground feel going on ^^

 

[Romaki]

Games like these always do best with more choices, that's why people go crazy over terraforming as well! As someone who used to reset for house placement I'm really thankful for this feature, the randomization of them never was really... good. Like they put houses in front of your own and in no reasonable pattern with other houses. You had to go all out to make your town look like a town, with New Horizons that's just a given now.

 

[meo]

Same. I'm also really glad they are enabling being able to move structures like the campsites/cafe/etc.
I can see how placing those pwps could be inconvenient especially if your plans/designs change as you're going along.

Overall, I feel the changes coming are really positive and helpful for the player base. It feels like they're listening to certain complaints.