Random thoughts thread. (New Horizons)

[Xara]

Flowers are more annoying than weeds.

At least I can pick up all the weeds in a couple minutes by pressing a single button (or pay Leif for the weed service). Those darn flowers, though...they grow like crazy, and they all require the painfully slow shovel animation to dig them up, then filling in the hole. Then selling them all to actually get rid of them.

I'm going through the process of finally getting rid of all the flowers that I don't want around my island. And it is just...ugh. Such an unnecessary chore. Surely they could have made it all much easier.

If I ever plant flowers in the future, I am going to make sure they are "caged" in so they can't just spready like wildfire.

massive agree. that’s why i went to the trouble of putting transparent designs around all my flowers, so that no more could grow. my island is already overrun with flowers, and having to dig up and throw away so many new ones every time it rained or snowed honestly put me off from playing. it’s such a chore, and the transparent designs have worked wonders.

would be nice if leif also offered a flower removal service, or if the clean-up tool while terraforming also got rid of flowers. any easier way of getting rid of flowers in bulk would be great.

 

[magicalgrrrlz]

Does anyone know if there will be a new years 2023 arch ?

 

[Clock]

Does anyone know if there will be a new years 2023 arch ?

I hope so, because from what I've heard the New Year arches are time locked

 

[LuchaSloth]

I'm guessing they designed a bunch of those for future years and just slid them all in with the final update. But, then again...wouldn't people have found them while looking through the code if that was the case? I guess we'll find out. Lol

 

[daisyflowers]

putting transparent designs around all my flowers, so that no more could grow.

literally never considered this oml- i too need to yeet out all these not needed flowers or atleast the majority of them. the process of digging new ones up and selling them at the drop off box is sort of becoming boring / agonising

shall use this transparent design idea at some stage

 

[nightglow]

oops just realized this random thought's thread was in the NH section. So I'm editing this to be about acnh instead of this random game I tried yesterday.
I almost wish the public buildings in acnh weren't movable for the trade off of being able to choose from a few outside customization options for them. Beyond the fact that it would be nice to see a different vibe on the island, half the time I am not sure where I should place my public buildings. I almost always end up lining them up at the front of the island. To me it feels awkward. So I am thinking about moving the buildings around again..
(Villager houses don't count. We need to be able to place those and move those around without a doubt. No one wants squished Hybrids or Items disappearing into the recycle bin.)

 

[HappyTails]

Alright so I figured out what my problem was with Animal Crossing. It has nothing to do with Planet Coaster since I'm playing my other Switch games just fine. My problem was after I flattened my island, I lost interest. so I started playing Planet Coaster. When I flattened my island I started designed it again and winging it and winging it doesn't work for me. It never has. I needed a plan So I decided to go on Happy Island Designer and made a rough draft on how I want Echo to look. Now I have a plan and can put it motion. But what I'm also going to do is not let terraforming take over my gameplay since it tends to do so. So I am going to try to limit my terraforming time to about 45 minutes or so every Animal Crossing session. and spend more time doing things this game has to offer. I haven't even unlocked all the shops on Harv's Island yet, nor have I gotten far in Happy Home Paradise. There are other things to do besides terraform which also overwhelms me at times. I had considered restarting but decided not to because that's not going to solve anything. Only thing it's going to do is annoy me because I would have to go through the long forced tutorial again just to end up in the same boat I'm in now. I'm likely going to restart my second island though.

Also I have Tutu's Amibo, I am going to add her to Echo so I will have a villager on my island I actually like to keep me motivated to stay there.

 

[LuchaSloth]

Playing Dreamlight Valley has really made me, um...not "appreciate", but just notice, I guess...how bad the island customization tools are in New Horizons. - I can't play Animal Crossing now without just wishing we had an overview camera, could pick things up and put them directly in storage, could move the buildings in real time, etc. - It's kind of crazy that a random third party game made by a huge corporation like Disney could just get so many things right that Animal Crossing got horribly wrong. - I still don't know what they were thinking with the whole "pay to move every single building, and wait an entire real-time day" system. I just want to know who thought any of that was necessary or would be appreciated. - At best, I'm guessing they thought it might make people play the game longer, because they would be forced to wait between construction projects. But, it has definitely had the opposite effect on me. The tedium makes any construction a huge chore.

 

[Bobbo]

My husband just royally wound me up.

Apparently I'm too in to the game because I've decided that the housing area near the airport is the poor district because prices would be lower there due to noise pollution.

Apparently he can't understand my "story" for the island at all and I'm putting too much thought in to it. Guess shame on me for being creative.

So anyways. Hes in another room now, and I'm making my housing districts

I'm afraid to ask who lives in the poor housing district.

Its Billy, limberg and cashmere

If I can add my thoughts on a villager in the “poor housing district”, I would like to add Frett to that list. He’s a cranky villager and his house has the “sloppy” series and lemme tell ya, the sloppy series walls are pretty rough!

I sorta feel like a slumlord, even though he brought his house with him.

Although, I did set up his yard and he’s got weeds, trash bags, tires, a refrigerator and mismatching lawn chairs in his yard. If I could have one of the cars on blocks, I would definitely do it!

 

[HappyTails]

A rough draft of how I plan on designing Echo. Of course subject to change without notice

 

[Saah]

I really wish we had gates for fences... Lots of parts of my island look prettier fenced, but I also want to, you know, go inside them without having to remove a part of the fence and then put it back after I'm done. It'd also be perfect if the player/host was the only one able to open them, so villagers wouldn't wander in places they shouldn't go but also trading etc would be soooo much easier, I could have my airport entrance permanently closed off and that's it!

 

[Clock]

Imagine the day Nintendo drops a new NH update teaser, I want more NH content since it's hard to get back in the game sometimes

 

[Xara]

Imagine the day Nintendo drops a new NH update teaser, I want more NH content since it's hard to get back in the game sometimes

man, i wish. i’d love new content (even a small update would be great), but i doubt we’ll get it since nintendo’s said they’re done with the game, and so far they’ve stuck by that. still hoping they’ll maybe surprise us one day, but i don’t have much hope lol.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Sometimes I feel like I'm at war with myself whenever I think about Restarting

 

[Clock]

I prefer NL's customer design other than NH for some reason

 

[themysterybidder]

If Label is supposed to be a fashion designer, why does she always wear the same clothes?

 

[Croconaw]

I don’t understand why some think jocks are overrated when they are so disliked and under appreciated. If anything, they are underrated, although I prefer not to use those terms for villagers.

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

why do flowers spread, but weeds don't? they are both plants!

 

[Roaldisthebest]

I don’t understand why some think jocks are overrated when they are so disliked and under appreciated. If anything, they are underrated, although I prefer not to use those terms for villagers.

right? i feel like my jock Hamlet is my favorite villager right now. he's given me the most interactions and surprisingly doesn't (always) talk about working out. he seems to have an appreciation for nature it's just an enthausiastic caring vibe.
another unpopular opinion is i don't reaaally like lazy villagers. Beau on my island rn is kinda cute but i just can't click with it, even in the previous games.

 

[Flicky]

I wish we had a fireworks sound for the home. We have an actual fireworks wallpaper, loads of festival items in the game, but no fireworks background noise to bring it all together.