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MODERATION NOTE: Designating this thread as a sort of general assorted feature ideas / requests discussion thread. Separate threads dedicated to a specific feature or set of related features are definitely welcome, but please use this thread as a location for your assorted ideas that don't feel like they're worth an entire thread or aren't related to each-other. :) - Justin

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I'm playing New Leaf right now and I keep thinking of ways to improve on the features that I hope they implement into the next game.

- A menu UI or a journal that keeps track of villager requests. My memory is bad so I forget to do things for them often.
- Asking for jobs/favors, like in the gamecube version. Too often, I'll only get like 1 or 2 request a day. Boring.
- The dream suite, if they bring it back, should allow you to visit dream towns with friends.
- Blathers should ask you whether or not you want him to educate you when donating stuff to the museum. I'd like when he talked a lot.
- Celeste observatory returns with a planetarium as well.
- The police station needs more functionality. Maybe the report citizen function that Isabelle has should be transferred to the police dogs instead. And we should be allowed to have Copper and Booker. It's not fair to have to pick between them. It also needs another unique feature but I'm at a loss. Maybe a mini game job where you go on patrol and stop the citizens from doing bad things like littering and bullying idk.

What features would you like in the new game?
 
- I'd at least like to see a feature that lets you choose where a villager will put their house. Like getting some kind of a notification when a villager is about to move in, and then you could go and choose a suitable spot for the house.

- Being able to get rid of rocks would be neat. I was wondering that maybe the rocks could be broken with a golden shovel or something, since you can't get it right away so it'd be a bit challenging at least. Or maybe there could be a special item for breaking rocks.

- Being able to create multiple towns would also be convenient, so one wouldn't have to buy multiple copies of the game.

- And also, more storage space! :lemon:
 
- Better Weather
- Sending. letters. to. friends. outside. of. your. town.
 
Please Nintendo, let me plot villagers by myself.
Also please let me choose outright how my villager looks.
 
-I think more customization of your character, a la Happy Home Designer, would be really nice!
-Being able to choose where villagers put their house would be a big plus! Even if it's building the sign posts from Wild World or Population Growing, or even being able to relocate ones that are auto-placed in your town!
-Definitely bringing back all of the little blurbs that Blathers had, I loved when he went on his little rants! But please make it optional, sometimes I'm playing during lunch at work and am a bit pressed for time.
-Being able to relocate things like the Campsite and Cafe, if they bring PWP back! I hate that they're permanent fixtures, I wouldn't even mind if they were "closed" while the moving was happening and it took a few days, rather than an overnight deal.
 
- more options for skin colour and hair type
- new stores
- a new and improved version of the city, plus Main Street
- the planetarium back
- smaller AC holidays back like Bright Lights/Flower Festival
- new clothing options
- more PWPs (including PC additions)
- the ability to choose villager house placement/store placement
 
I'd like to see:

-A better night life. Maybe more late night places.
-More weather options and villagers reactive to it. Maybe trees swaying on a windy day, more visible lightning during thunderstorms, and it being harder to see during heavy snowfall.
-Villagers reacting to the weather changes more visually. Like if it's cold outside, maybe have them switch clothes.
-A bit more of animal's lives. I want to see some important characters like Nook leave after work and travel to their home or somewhere like the Roost.
-More face and hair combinations.
-Bring back the personality villagers had from the first game and add new ones.
-The ability to expand your town. Not a major expansion, but maybe adding a mountain trail or a park that can be used on special days.
 
- More customisation options for clothes/shoes/accessories
- I know some people made their own version of a garden in ACNL with bushes/floor designs but a house upgrade including one (maybe fenced off and customisable?) would be pretty cool
- Like the comment above me, more expansive weather climates (could even adopt sub-terrains in winter like slate, frost etc)
- Being able to choose villagers' house location would be so useful
 
A few years prior, during New Leaf days, I had composed a list alongside a friend of the plethora of features we are agog to behold in the next Animal Crossing game. Now, If I were to copy and paste the whole list it would make for an considerably interminable post, so I have decided to pick and choose the ones that I think are the most interesting:

1. Bigger PWP's that you can stack/merge to the clouds.
2. You can go on the clouds and they can be accessed by climbing huge PWP's or having a villager that can fly take you there.
3. Extreme weather like tornadoes, blizzards, floods, and hurricanes can come.
4. You can get a remix of your town tune from KK. Slider and play it on your radio.
5. There can be underwater towns when your town floods or ancient ruins underwater that can have villagers like fish.
6. There can be underwater caves.
7. You can bring your instruments to Club LOL and perform. Also with a band of people.
8. You can travel with more things than just the train. (Like a plane, hot air balloon, hang gliders, rockets/spaceship, bicycle, skateboard, roller/ice skates, etc.) And you can travel on them simultaneously with friends.
9. You can have friends/relatives (people you really trust) live/move in to your town for a certain period of time without having the same game cart as you. (This one sounds a bit unrealistic but still cool)
10. You can buy more land and expand your town.
11. You can resign from the office and promote/fire Isabelle. You can also hire animals.
12. You can change your face and your town name and your character name by signing papers. You can sign them with the touchscreen.
13. You can access the deep ocean with oxygen tanks and explore the deep parts of the ocean with friends too. There can be lost ships and submarines and you can steal lost treasure down there for lots of bells.
14. You can buy bikes and cars from Nook. Bikes can hold 2 people and cars would hold 4 people and you can race with friends
15. You can go skydiving from an airplane.
16. You can select certain people on your best friends list to send messages to
17. You can buy food and cook them to make meals.
18. You can choose your height/skin tone at the beginning of the game.
19. You have the option to view in first person view.
20. There can be pools and you can buy one for your house (for the outside).
21. In the winter all pools, ponds, rivers, and the ocean freezes and Ables and Kicks sell ice skating gear.
22. You can buy special seeds that can make the grass longer and you can ask Leif to trim them and have villagers trim their own lawns.
23. You can go kayaking or canoeing
24. You can go on a cruise on a luxury boat. Gulliver drives the cruise ship and you sometimes tip over
25. You can buy a rocket ship and visit different planets. Once you've visited space a certain amount of time you can dream of the moon and visit aliens
26. When you're visiting another town you can stay at a town hotel.
27. There can be a park with swings and slides and monkey bars and other stuff you can unlock
28. There can be an amusement park you can unlock that has rides like roller coasters and stuff and you can unlock more and even make some rides once you've spent a lot there
29. You can have a laptop or CPU or phone and have an email on it with a password so that your mailbox isn't always full.
30. You can go zip lining.
31. You can climb trees without cheating
32. On the cruise, you can unlock more places to go, the more you've visited/spent. Like Antarctica, Hawaii, and much more.
33. In Hawaii there would be volcanoes that would erupt and in Antarctica there would polar bears and seals
34. In the summer, you have the option to go to Antarctica and Club Tortimer there. There are also special tours, fruit, bugs/fish, clothes, and plants that you can get in Antarctica.
35. There can be special villages on clouds. You can go and buy souvenirs on the cloud shop and meet cloud people.
36. You can dream with friends and unlock special places to dream (the moon, other planets, lost underground worlds and stuff) and meet people in the dream world.
37. You can record yourself and send them to your friends and they can see you on TV or in real time when you guys are on at the same time and one is filming.
38. You can enter a lottery for prizes like bells and rare stuff.
39. You can have a bigger art selection; crayons, markers, glitter, colored paper and origami and you can display it.
40. You can have wider and taller houses like 5 story ones and you can demolish rooms and combine them together so bigger rooms, you can also decide where rooms go instead of having them chosen for you.
41. You can go surfing with a board
42. You can eat at the roost and order desserts. Once you've spent a lot of money there, it can expand into a restaurant.
43. You can visit a jungle which has jungle exclusive bugs
44. You can buy and wear makeup
45. You can layer clothes.
46. You can make underground railroads and trap villagers underground. You can also place your home underground.
47. If there's a lot of snow on the ground, you can go skiing.
48. On the clouds, gravity is weaker so you can jump
49. There's rare birds and flying animals in the each region of the sky/clouds. (like a phoenix, or certain colored bird
50. More accessories like bracelets, earrings, necklaces, bags, and BFF bracelets that you can unlock once you played with someone a lot/ visited/ invited them over a lot of times and they have special powers. (Such as being able to go on journeys together, like a cruise, or club tortimer, or mountain climbing, or visiting outer space)
51. You can visit/write back to mom.
52. You can start a business on Main Street.
53. You can have a notes section like an on-the-go diary.
54. You can use voice chat and it'd be HD. Like Skype chat or Wii Speak.
55. You can listen to music on an ipod, like an on-the-go radio.
56. You can have a phone and use voice chat with your best friends when they're in different towns and invite certain best friends.
57. You can unlock Japanese characters and letters for better communication (and different languages too)
58. You can attach pictures and drawings to letters like Swapnote.
59. Snowflakes can be more detailed (bigger/smaller) and you can put them in your home
60. You can climb mountains and visit the Grand Canyon.
61. You can go camping in the woods on a special island with friends
62. You can rotate PWP's
63. You can unlock bigger PWP's like mountains, lakes, ice skating rinks, a bigger shopping district, a mall (like Mall of America in Minnesota.)
64. There'd be secret passages in the ocean where you swim at (before the buoy line) that can bring you to a different world/dimension.
65. You can grow a beanstalk, climb it, and access a secret part of the sky.
66. You can camp in huge trees and with friends.
67. There can be mermaids in the ocean past the buoy line (deep part) that have powers.
68. There'd be ladders you can climb on to get on buildings, so that you don’t have to use glitches.
69. You can go in the photo booth with friends and your favorite villagers
70. You can make treehouses in trees
71. As mayor, you should be able to designate the spots in which villagers move in.
72. You can go under your bed and decorate it. There can also be a passageway under your bed that leads underground to a place with shops and restaurants. You can go there with friends too
73. You can have a tool belt to put your tools in to save space.
74. You can get a tent and go in sleeping bags
75. You can get longer hair that's past the shoulder length.
76. Animals can wear pants
77. You can decorate the outside of your house like put a wreath on your door or put up lights
78. You can roast marshmallows when camping.
79. You can buy curtains for your home so no light comes in.
80. You can bring instruments outside and play them without being in a building and have an outdoor concert!
81. You can hang pictures in your home that you've taken in New Leaf from camera.
82. You can make a photo album.
83. You can cook and eat fish.
84. You can chew on bubblegum and blow bubbles.
85. You can decorate your town tree. (with lights, etc.)
86. If you find a stick somewhere (perhaps a twig from a tree or something) you can draw in the sand at the beach.
87. You can make custom picture frames, and then hang it on your wall with a picture on it
88. You can customize the length of dresses.
89. If it’s snowing, you can have snowball fights with your friends and build snow forts
90. You can custom design cars and other vehicles. You can also custom design house exterior
91. You can have multi colored hair and eyes. (One eye can be this color and the other eye can be that color)
92. You can send presents to your best friends by balloon mail. Bottled mail would also come back and you can send mail to your best friends
93. You can make fires from wood.
94. You can dress up as a bear, or any other animal.
95. You can make custom drinks and foods from veggies/fruits/fish and share them with friends
96. You can make buy soaps, shampoos, and sunscreen and stuff so you stay clean and have shiny skin and you can let off a glow.
97. You can grow your hair and it can go all the way to the floor and longer.
98. You can invent your own custom alphabet for the keyboard and send the keyboard to friends so you can chat in that alphabet and no one would know what you're saying
99. You can do certain hand emotions like give a thumbs up, high five, and shake hands.
100. You can expand your ocean and it can go all the way to a custom Island (you can choose the name, layout, and put trees/buildings on it) and you can swim there with friends during Wi-Fi.
 
I would really like to see minor events brought back like Morning Aerobics from GameCube. I watch jvgsjeff's old videos from ACGC and the events they had looked like so much fun! Also I hope they add more villager personality, and by that I mean not the same old text each personality type would say to you, I mean that they're actually cranky or smug or lazy or snooty. I just want them to be mean to me :(
 
@ izzy reincarnated, you have a lot of great ideas. I love the idea of the river and ponds freezing over in winter but maybe just for like a week so we can still catch river fish.

And the underwater caverns got me thinking that it would be neat if there was a scuba suit we could buy and explore underwater. It would really improve upon diving.

- - - Post Merge - - -

I'd like to see:

-A better night life. Maybe more late night places.
-More weather options and villagers reactive to it. Maybe trees swaying on a windy day, more visible lightning during thunderstorms, and it being harder to see during heavy snowfall.
-Villagers reacting to the weather changes more visually. Like if it's cold outside, maybe have them switch clothes.
-A bit more of animal's lives. I want to see some important characters like Nook leave after work and travel to their home or somewhere like the Roost.
-More face and hair combinations.
-Bring back the personality villagers had from the first game and add new ones.
-The ability to expand your town. Not a major expansion, but maybe adding a mountain trail or a park that can be used on special days.

I think there should be a shop that opens only at night so that there is a reason to play during those hours. Maybe Redd could be the shop keep?
 
Being able to create custom music for the cd player would be very nice instead of having to choose k.k. sliders music
because it would be more realistic.Also being able to buy custom music from other players would be great
 
Better online multiplayer like sending letters to friends, trading etc etc
 
Better dialogue and bigger towns. Can't go wrong with those two, right? Also, I would love to see 15 villagers again along with the bigger town option.
 
@ izzy reincarnated, you have a lot of great ideas. I love the idea of the river and ponds freezing over in winter but maybe just for like a week so we can still catch river fish.

And the underwater caverns got me thinking that it would be neat if there was a scuba suit we could buy and explore underwater. It would really improve upon diving.

- - - Post Merge - - -



I think there should be a shop that opens only at night so that there is a reason to play during those hours. Maybe Redd could be the shop keep?

I think that you can still fish with the pond and river frozen over. It can just be ice fishing during that period :)
 
More house customization custom room sizes and shapes

Tom nook shows you the floor plan and you can draw custom room sizes and shapes by putting down squares for empty spaces or walls you can make hallways, closets, tiny rooms,L shaped rooms,rooms with nooks and crannies, rooms in indents, rooms with half wall divisions, really any shape you draw even a blocky heart room. you can even place stairs. This comes with the ability to change or demolish rooms already made each edit you make you gotta pay a loan for

you start out as regular tiny house and each time you pay a loan Tom nook upgrades your room like regular AC fashion after a couple upgrades Tom nook lets you edit the floor plan and with that Tom nook gives you more squares after every loan you pay. The first floor and second floor can be as big as 9 8x8 rooms and the floor you're in is all loaded all at once. I always wanted to have a loft room and porch like the AC movie too


Here's another idea cuz a main animal crossing is going to be hd for the first time they could upgrade the characters to have modeled fingers, claws, paws, hoves instead of stubs

One more if you could catch blob fish and it only sells for 2 bells and this one could be a stretch if you could catch a baby crocodile in the rivers
 
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What do you want to see in AC Switch?

We all have features we want, personally I would love to have character customisation that is not based off of questions. What do you guys want to see?
 
I would love to see items or ideas from Pocket Camp be implemented! Like the variation in shirt/jacket and dress models with the kimonos and long regal dresses. Or even just furniture from Pocket Camp from the cookie events because there's so many things from there that would look amazing in room ideas. Character customization from Pocket Camp would be great too, maybe not the full on 'you choose how you look' because the silly questions at the beginning are kind of a staple, but I think the option to have a character with a darker skin tone without having to tan would be amazing.
Maybe More villager interactions? Like have it so you have to actually befriend villagers instead of the villagers loving you automatically even when you don't talk to them a lot, it was kind of funny to get a 'i know you'll miss me' letter from a villager I smacked with a net several times cause I wanted him out of my town.
Happy Home room editor is in the game by default, because that thing has saved my life when it came to making my house the way I wanted.
More just new stuff? Like villager species, maybe more flowers, plants, and just customization in general for the town would be awesome.
 
I would love to see items or ideas from Pocket Camp be implemented! Like the variation in shirt/jacket and dress models with the kimonos and long regal dresses. Or even just furniture from Pocket Camp from the cookie events because there's so many things from there that would look amazing in room ideas. Character customization from Pocket Camp would be great too, maybe not the full on 'you choose how you look' because the silly questions at the beginning are kind of a staple, but I think the option to have a character with a darker skin tone without having to tan would be amazing.
Maybe More villager interactions? Like have it so you have to actually befriend villagers instead of the villagers loving you automatically even when you don't talk to them a lot, it was kind of funny to get a 'i know you'll miss me' letter from a villager I smacked with a net several times cause I wanted him out of my town.
Happy Home room editor is in the game by default, because that thing has saved my life when it came to making my house the way I wanted.
More just new stuff? Like villager species, maybe more flowers, plants, and just customization in general for the town would be awesome.

I agree with literally everything you said, I really hope this new Animal Crossing game is worth the wait, I mean even if it's just basically a port of New Leaf I'd be pretty happy but I really do hope that there is so much more to this, especially after how long we've had to wait, but I'm sure Kyogoku will make it a blast.
 
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