If you're gonna design your game around collecting resources on a daily basis so you can craft your own furniture, maybe don't have a punishment mechanic for doing said resources collecting?
I'm currently working on a bit of a medium-scale project that requires lots of stalls and, as many of you probably know, stalls require, like, 12 wood pieces to make. I have what feels like an unlimited amount of hardwood and softwood but I'm horribly lacking in regular wood pieces. So, y'know, no big deal, I'll just spend 5-10 minutes every day hitting trees to collect some. I feel like I get hardwood and softwood more often than I do regular wood, somehow, but whatever, I'll get there eventually. Except that, as you can guess, hitting trees in any capacity creates a chance to spawn a wasps' nest that immediately attacks you, wasting your time as you get stung and then either use some medicine, which gobbles up time, hit save & quit to de-spawn the wasps, which gobbles up WAY more time, or just suffer through your villagers' worthless comments about how you've been stung by wasps. In essence, it's more of a minor annoyance than anything else but when it happens so frequently, it becomes aggravating, at least to me. Imagine if, as you hit your town's rocks, you had a chance to spawn a tarantula that immediately stings you and forces you to pass out? It'd suck and it'd make me less inclined to actively hit my rocks: I shouldn't be punished for doing something that the game requires me to do in order to go through the game's main mechanic: crafting stuff. Not to mention that this is biologically inaccurate since it's winter right now and wasps shouldn't even be active: most wasps die out during the winter while mated queens will hibernate, that nest that falls off a tree with angry wasps ready to defend their homes in winter is a lie. That being said, I didn't come here just to complain, I have some solutions that Nintendo could but likely will never implement.
1. Have a functioning beekeeper's outfit. Maybe it's something you gotta order with Nook Miles using the terminal in Resident Services or something and it makes you immune to the negative effects of wasps: the wasps just buzz around you for a while, giving you the chance to catch them if that's what you wanted to do, or they just disappear after a few seconds of pestering you as they realize their attacks are useless. I could see such an item being very useful as something to wear during such resource collection runs.
2. Re-introduce town ordinances and have one to address that problem. This is much less likely to happen as it's sort of a game-changing mechanic that Nintendo probably would've included in New Horizons to begin with if they had the intention of ever including that, but if they did re-introduce town ordinances, you could have one called something like "Safe Haven" where it prevents wasps, tarantulas and scorpions from spawning. You could have the other ordinances from New Leaf in there as well while we're at it: I don't think anyone would mind seeing those return.
3. Make resources collecting simpler by having a recurring visitor who trades resources. Like I mentioned, I have a boat-load of freakin' hardwood and softwood. More so than I could ever see myself ever using because, gotta be honest, most of the furniture those are used for are just not that appealing to me, especially not enough so to be used in large quantity. The solution for that? Introduce an NPC who will trade all that useless hardwood and softwood for regular wood, or vice-versa if you feel like it. It could be one of the forgotten NPC from New Leaf with a rebranded purposes e.g. Have Phineas show up in town every few days or weeks as a traveler that's seen plenty of islands and wouldn't mind trading resources if we need to. It could also not be limited to wood products, either, he could trade, like, 30 iron ores for 1 gold nugget or 5 iron ores for 20 clay pieces and so on. That way, you don't have to rely solely on hitting wasp-infested trees to get your wood: you can just wait for Phineas to be in town to trade your extras with him for what you do need.
So yeah... rant over, I guess. I just hate wasps and I wish there was a way for me not to worry about them.
I'm currently working on a bit of a medium-scale project that requires lots of stalls and, as many of you probably know, stalls require, like, 12 wood pieces to make. I have what feels like an unlimited amount of hardwood and softwood but I'm horribly lacking in regular wood pieces. So, y'know, no big deal, I'll just spend 5-10 minutes every day hitting trees to collect some. I feel like I get hardwood and softwood more often than I do regular wood, somehow, but whatever, I'll get there eventually. Except that, as you can guess, hitting trees in any capacity creates a chance to spawn a wasps' nest that immediately attacks you, wasting your time as you get stung and then either use some medicine, which gobbles up time, hit save & quit to de-spawn the wasps, which gobbles up WAY more time, or just suffer through your villagers' worthless comments about how you've been stung by wasps. In essence, it's more of a minor annoyance than anything else but when it happens so frequently, it becomes aggravating, at least to me. Imagine if, as you hit your town's rocks, you had a chance to spawn a tarantula that immediately stings you and forces you to pass out? It'd suck and it'd make me less inclined to actively hit my rocks: I shouldn't be punished for doing something that the game requires me to do in order to go through the game's main mechanic: crafting stuff. Not to mention that this is biologically inaccurate since it's winter right now and wasps shouldn't even be active: most wasps die out during the winter while mated queens will hibernate, that nest that falls off a tree with angry wasps ready to defend their homes in winter is a lie. That being said, I didn't come here just to complain, I have some solutions that Nintendo could but likely will never implement.
1. Have a functioning beekeeper's outfit. Maybe it's something you gotta order with Nook Miles using the terminal in Resident Services or something and it makes you immune to the negative effects of wasps: the wasps just buzz around you for a while, giving you the chance to catch them if that's what you wanted to do, or they just disappear after a few seconds of pestering you as they realize their attacks are useless. I could see such an item being very useful as something to wear during such resource collection runs.
2. Re-introduce town ordinances and have one to address that problem. This is much less likely to happen as it's sort of a game-changing mechanic that Nintendo probably would've included in New Horizons to begin with if they had the intention of ever including that, but if they did re-introduce town ordinances, you could have one called something like "Safe Haven" where it prevents wasps, tarantulas and scorpions from spawning. You could have the other ordinances from New Leaf in there as well while we're at it: I don't think anyone would mind seeing those return.
3. Make resources collecting simpler by having a recurring visitor who trades resources. Like I mentioned, I have a boat-load of freakin' hardwood and softwood. More so than I could ever see myself ever using because, gotta be honest, most of the furniture those are used for are just not that appealing to me, especially not enough so to be used in large quantity. The solution for that? Introduce an NPC who will trade all that useless hardwood and softwood for regular wood, or vice-versa if you feel like it. It could be one of the forgotten NPC from New Leaf with a rebranded purposes e.g. Have Phineas show up in town every few days or weeks as a traveler that's seen plenty of islands and wouldn't mind trading resources if we need to. It could also not be limited to wood products, either, he could trade, like, 30 iron ores for 1 gold nugget or 5 iron ores for 20 clay pieces and so on. That way, you don't have to rely solely on hitting wasp-infested trees to get your wood: you can just wait for Phineas to be in town to trade your extras with him for what you do need.
So yeah... rant over, I guess. I just hate wasps and I wish there was a way for me not to worry about them.
