Happy Home Paradise plot number speculation

[Insulaire]

Wait, I didn’t realize this was already on the Nintendo official website:

In this expansion, you’ll join the Paradise Planning team, where you’ll have the opportunity to design vacation homes for characters, with dozens and dozens of vacationers enjoying your design inspirations!

I think that confirms limited plots. They wouldn’t say dozens and dozens if it was hundreds and hundreds

 

[Etown20]

Wait, I didn’t realize this was already on the Nintendo official website:

I think that confirms limited plots. They wouldn’t say dozens and dozens if it was hundreds and hundreds

I'm not sure, I could also see dozens and dozens meaning it's not capped. If they had a finite number in mind, they could just say that number (be it 48, 96, etc).

I don't think they would say hundreds even if it was possible because most people aren't going to reach the hundreds, and it may actually intimidate some players by thinking they have to design 100 homes. That's just my interpretation though, I could be wrong.

 

[DJStarstryker]

I'm always hesitant to predict stuff like this because there is plenty of stuff they have changed or left out of the main game, but I don't anticipate them changing the HHD structure and limiting the number of plots. It could happen, but I don't see a reason to think they would change it based on what we know so far.

I know how you feel, but it's 3 weeks away until this all comes out. Anticipation's gonna make us want to speculate.

I really really hope you're right in your feeling that they wouldn't limit us, but at the same time, I would not be surprised if @
Insulaire is on the right track with their theory. It's just hard to tell right now, and we won't know for sure until November 5th... Actually, maybe not even then, since it'll take time to make even ~48 houses. Even if someone tries to speedrun it and do the minimum required to unlock things, it might take either finding out from the dataminers or several days of people actually playing it minimum (whichever happens first) to find out.

 

[Etown20]

I know how you feel, but it's 3 weeks away until this all comes out. Anticipation's gonna make us want to speculate.

I really really hope you're right in your feeling that they wouldn't limit us, but at the same time, I would not be surprised if @
Insulaire is on the right track with their theory. It's just hard to tell right now, and we won't know for sure until November 5th... Actually, maybe not even then, since it'll take time to make even ~48 houses. Even if someone tries to speedrun it and do the minimum required to unlock things, it might take either finding out from the dataminers or several days of people actually playing it minimum (whichever happens first) to find out.

Oh, I don't mind the speculation at all, just noting it's difficult to predict. There's been a lot of times with New Horizons where I thought Nintendo would do one thing and then they did something different than what was expected.

I think we will find out pretty quickly - it's basically just a matter of if you can reuse plots, I think? For instance, if you can build the first five houses on the same plot, then that likely indicates it's unlimited like HHD. If the game makes you choose a different plot for each house though, that would indicate it is limited.

 

[th8827]

The fact that you can revisit your past builds from the photo album instead of the map makes me think that you can have unlimited vacation homes. The map is just there to let you pick the basic plot shape/theme, with each square being one of the different options.

 

[.: Meri :.]

It's possible they've switched up the mechanics, but aside from the roommates feature, most of what I saw seemed pretty similar to the original HHD. There were a limited number of plots on the grid there too, but they could be used for as many different villagers as you wanted, and you could go back and do home remodels for them then as well, even with hundreds of villagers to decorate for. Since you unlock a lot more options and abilities as you go, the early houses I made started to feel a bit lacking after a while. ^^; I definitely got the urge to redo some of the first houses I designed in HHD, even though I'm nowhere near close to decorating houses for all the possible villagers. Remodels also don't require you to use their favorite items anymore, so you get a bit more creative freedom that way (even though it does give you a lot of creative freedom to begin with).
And as far as the villagers wandering around the town and buildings, it's randomly selected and capped at a certain amount in HHD, as far as I can tell (though I don't know any data-specifics), and in the buildings you could swap out the random villagers with Amiibo cards, if you wanted to.

The roommate feature, along with HHP being DLC and not its own separate game, does make me wonder if they've limited things to 1-2 villagers per plot, though. Getting to make homes for hundreds of villagers makes a lot of sense for a full game, but since this is more of an expansion pack, it's hard to say if they'll go the same route. However, I could also see the roommates feature being there just to increase the player's creative freedom/switch things up a little. Designing a bunch of one-animal homes can get repetitive even with all the varied aesthetics and furniture options, so making a shared home for two animals sounds like a neat feature. There's even a few obvious villager pairs that people might want to keep together, like the sisters Chrissy and Francine, Sterling and Knox, Chevre and Nan, etc.; or it could give players opportunities to play with "neat roommate/messy roommate" dynamics, stuff like that.
I will say though, the concept of handpicking a few dozen villagers does have a certain charm to it, even though I do like the "make a home for everybody" aspect of the original HHD. It'd be fun to see who everyone would choose with that much freedom, or how much people would leave up to fate—it'd certainly get me buying more Amiibo cards, and I do think I'd enjoy planning out everyone I'd want, where they'd live, etc. (๑•͈ᴗ•͈) It's too early to tell either way though, I think, so I don't want to get too ahead of myself here, ahaha.

 

[daringred_]

i don't know, one thing that makes me think they're unlimited is the fact that requests are randomly generated. if you don't own any amiibo cards, you would only be able to cherry-pick from the selection of villagers the game randomly decides to have appear with a request each day/load-up. ergo you could end up refreshing hundreds of times trying to get the villagers you want to design houses for, and if you didn't know about a plot number, you could waste time and space on a bunch of houses for villagers you're not wildly keen on. seems pretty stupid to me.

also, my understanding was that you earn the new currency through designing houses and use it to buy furniture -- if they cap the amount of plots allowed, does that not make it much harder to earn said currency? at least with 400-something villagers, you're likely to earn enough to buy one or more of everything without redesigning the same 50 or so houses because you understandably don't want to tear down your previous hardwork.

 

[Marshmallows]

After watching that part of the direct again , I am now leaning towards it being just like HHD and being unlimited/open to all characters.

Dozens and dozens doesn't sound right if only referring to 4 dozen.... and when choosing the plot, you're able to change the season and weather, similar to HHD. So you could have an icy island... or tropical one. Hopefully both! Some plots are more appealing than others, so it'd be nice if we could reuse them.

I'm honestly fine with 48 plots, but the more the better! And being able to reuse plots for different weather/time of day would be a huge plus.

 

[satine]

I think that it being unlimited is a bit unrealistic -- especially if you're able to revisit.

I think this is more or less confirmed by the fact that on the map that was shown during the video, one of the spots had Eloise (or whatever elephant is yellow) on one of the plots. That means that that plot was taken by her, reserved for her and presumably not usable. I am personally fine with this. I don't want to have to juggle an insane number of villager personally.

 

[VexTheHex]

I thought we were getting spoiled with 48-49 plots with the chance to buddy up some. I'm pretty sure Eloise and Bea being on the map is actually a pretty solid indicator that they take up the slot.

 

[moon_child]

It's been a while since I played HHD, but if I recall correctly, that wasn't capped at all?

You could use the same plot for other villagers, it was essentially a template rather than an actual physical location. I thought it was just going to be like that again this time.

This is how I remember the game too. There wasn’t any villager cap implemented and it’s more just like a template in choosing their locations. I hope the same applies to this coming dlc.

 

[Junalt]

Ah I just released the video did indeed show Eloise and Bea occupying places in the map. Now I’m worried Nintendo really did make the silly decision to limit the amount of resorts we can have at one time. The best case scenario is if they allow us to select one resort home to represent the spot on the map but do not actually limit the amount of times we can use the location.

 

[azurill]

Ah I just released the video did indeed show Eloise and Bea occupying places in the map. Now I’m worried Nintendo really did make the silly decision to limit the amount of resorts we can have at one time. The best case scenario is if they allow us to select one resort home to represent the spot on the map but do not actually limit the amount of times we can use the location.

I had to go back because I didn’t notice that in the video either. I wonder if that is how you decide about roommates. Maybe If you are choosing a spot for someone and pick where someone else is you can you have the option of them being roommates or their own home.

 

[Junalt]

I had to go back because I didn’t notice that in the video either. I wonder if that is how you decide about roommates. Maybe If you are choosing a spot for someone and pick where someone else is you can you have the option of them being roommates or their own home.

That makes a lot of sense and also unfortunately seems to indicate more strongly to one slot on the map only being able to be occupied by one house. Still hoping somehow if you click on the map it will give a variety of options to either add roommate to existing house or add new house to the location.

 

[azurill]

That makes a lot of sense and also unfortunately seems to indicate more strongly to one slot on the map only being able to be occupied by one house. Still hoping somehow if you click on the map it will give a variety of options to either add roommate to existing house or add new house to the location.

Yea we won’t really know for sure until we can play. If I remember correctly with the original furniture unlocked based on who you built the houses for. If it is the same way that gives some hope that you can give everyone their own home.

 

[Insulaire]

Yea we won’t really know for sure until we can play. If I remember correctly with the original furniture unlocked based on who you built the houses for. If it is the same way that gives some hope that you can give everyone their own home.

I think every villager home will have exclusive furniture either way, but we may not be able to build for every villager. Perhaps there will be another in-game mechanic to acquire the villager specific items (maybe the items being sold for Poki are these exclusive items, and we continue to earn those points by remodeling over and over existing villager resort homes)

 

[maria110]

OMGosh! I hadn't even thought of the expansion of villager numbers that this will make available. Having only 10 on my regular island is too few so I'm extra excited to purchase this add on DLC. It's going to be so fun.

 

[Marshmallows]

So even if the plots are limited, I'd imagine there's going to be a way to replace villagers and invite someone new to replace them. Hopefully we can upload the plot to the Happy Home Network, build over it for someone else, and upload the second house as well without losing the first.

I know in my case though, even in HHD, there were a lot of times I just plopped the favorite items down and went on to the next client to unlock items.

I figure the unlocking of items/features is going to be tied to the number of villagers helped or a group of villagers (personality or species) instead of having to design for specific ones, but we'll see.

 

[Monokuma73]

As per image below:

I personally believe a limitation would be more or less 49 plots.
Some "islands" have bigger capacity and the biggest one could acomodate 5 plots.
I don't think performance would be an issue, because we will never be able to meet all paradisers in same place in the same time.

 

[sdw4527]

IIRC, Happy Home Designer gave you the option to remodel homes as well as have different floors so not really sure those being present here means they limited the plots to 49.