Special NPC Ideas

[-Blue-]

So, I just created my second character on my island for this idea I have. Long story short, I never realized how much of a grind some of the Nook Mile awards are to get when you first start. I wanted to change their default hairstyle, but since there are like 6 or so different DIY hairstyle cards, it takes a bit of mile grinding to get them all.

It got me thinking how people commented how Harriet is useless once you get all of her specialty haircuts. What if, instead of that just being her deal, that you could visit her or use your phone to make an appointment where she can instantaneously transport to the RS plaza and style your hair (and any of the features locked behind the mile program) With your character already sitting on a barber seat with a barber gown wrapped around them.

You can still style all of your features yourself and you have the chance to buy them yourself with the mile rewards, but aren't restricted to it being just locked behind the rewards machine. So Harriet can do it for you (probably within business hours) and each session would cost somewhere between 100-1000 bells. You have to realize, when these features dropped for us, most of us already clocked in so many hours and got so many miles that were just sitting. So it was easy for us to just buy it right off the bat.

This feature seems easy enough to implement without having to do a lot of extra work, but they could also go farther and have Harriet be able to offer more than one color variety for your hair, highlights, and maybe have a color slider like they had in NL.

Like it? Yes? No?


What kind of ideas do you have or would think make the NPCs better utilized or make for a good QoL feature?

 

[S.J.]

I think that would have been a great idea! The DIY would still be useful for convenience, but until then, Harriet would still be able to style your hair (for a fee of course). And I like the idea of her having opening hours too.

This would have been a great way to utilise Harriet more!

 

[-Blue-]

I think that would have been a great idea! The DIY would still be useful for convenience, but until then, Harriet would still be able to style your hair (for a fee of course). And I like the idea of her having opening hours too.

This would have been a great way to utilise Harriet more!

Thanks! Haha I only came up with the idea when I started my second inhabitant and wanted all of the hairstyles to see which one I liked on them the most. Then I realized I just had to grind a bunch of miles to get them all.

There could've been a lot of potential. Like she could've even went advanced and styled the character's hair in several different colors. Like imagine someone having blue and red or orange and green. And when I thought about those possibilities, I started wondering what else the other npc could've done to be more useful.

Like Leif could've offered fertilizer after so many visits/purchases which guarantees a flower will bloom/be a hybrid at a 15% extra chance or whatever.

Or Label could've joined her sisters after so many clothes tests and her specialty could be customization of clothes. Whereas Cyrus speciality is furniture, she can do the same with clothes. That way if you wanted something in a different color, you just went to her. I do kind of miss being able to customize furniture from Cyrus where you could use clothes as the customization pattern.

And so on.

 

[Xara]

i don’t really mind whether the hairstyles are locked behind nook miles or not, but harriet offering different hair colours, highlights, etc would’ve been amazing! i really wish nintendo had done this. i also would’ve loved if she had offered a few more new hairstyles as well... i’m obsessed with hairstyles in this game for some reason, can never have enough of them lol.

i don’t really have any ideas other than label offering clothes customization, but it would’ve been cool if c.j. offered deep-sea creature models as well. it sucks that that wasn’t added in the summer update as well; would’ve loved a moon jellyfish model, or for a grand spider crab model so that we’d have an even bigger version of it. like, “almost rivals the monster statue” bigger.

 

[-Blue-]

@xara I totally forgot that the sea creatures never got a model. I remember storing 3 of each sea creature. I actually still have them in my storage. I did it just in case. Sad...I guess I can just sell them now.

Imagine a model of that huge clam/oyster. It took me forever trying to catch it. It was so fast!

But yeah that's what I was thinking. Label could help with color variations. Just give her a special or common piece and wham she could change it to the other colors. Which would be great for rare clothes that Gulliver/Gullivar hand out and so forth. You wouldn't have to keep grinding with rng to find the color you want.

I was kind of expecting CJ to get updated to take sea creature commissions to. Kind of weird they decided to not do all of them. Maybe they ran out of time and only got 2/3rds of them. I remember Cyrus used to customize the fossils to make miniature kits. Just like the bug/fish models. I was expecting them to return to. So sad.

 

[Croconaw]

I wish Harriet offered ombré colors and multi-colored hair. That is all.

 

[oddbear]

Thanks! Haha I only came up with the idea when I started my second inhabitant and wanted all of the hairstyles to see which one I liked on them the most. Then I realized I just had to grind a bunch of miles to get them all.

There could've been a lot of potential. Like she could've even went advanced and styled the character's hair in several different colors. Like imagine someone having blue and red or orange and green. And when I thought about those possibilities, I started wondering what else the other npc could've done to be more useful.

Like Leif could've offered fertilizer after so many visits/purchases which guarantees a flower will bloom/be a hybrid at a 15% extra chance or whatever.

Or Label could've joined her sisters after so many clothes tests and her specialty could be customization of clothes. Whereas Cyrus speciality is furniture, she can do the same with clothes. That way if you wanted something in a different color, you just went to her. I do kind of miss being able to customize furniture from Cyrus where you could use clothes as the customization pattern.

And so on.

CUSTOMIZATION OF CLOTHES IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA OMG
so much less time wasted trying to get the right color of a certain clothing item!!

 

[azurill]

I think it’s a great idea. I still need to get some of the hairstyles for my secondary characters. I still wish they would bring in more colors. Not really a fan of the blonde they have.

It really is to bad that C.J does not offer to make sea creature models. Or that you can’t get Cyrus to make miniatures of the fossils.

Since they still don’t let us store flowers it would be nice if you could store them with Leif.

 

[VanitasFan26]

This may sound ridiculous, but I was thinking about an idea for a Special NPC to specialize in tool upgrading. Well you know how I feel about tools in this game breaking, so what if in the next AC game if they were to bring that feature back you can have a Special NPC help you upgrade your tools. Now of course you may have to do some stuff to earn those upgrades or they may charge a lot of bells for them.

When your tools are upgraded you can do so much more stuff with them. For example your Axe might turn into a Chainsaw to cut down trees with just one button. Its just something I randomly thought about and it could be pretty interesting.

 

[azurill]

This may sound ridiculous, but I was thinking about an idea for a Special NPC to specialize in tool upgrading. Well you know how I feel about tools in this game breaking, so what if in the next AC game if they were to bring that feature back you can have a Special NPC help you upgrade your tools. Now of course you may have to do some stuff to earn those upgrades or they may charge a lot of bells for them.

When your tools are upgraded you can do so much more stuff with them. For example your Axe might turn into a Chainsaw to cut down trees with just one button. Its just something I randomly thought about and it could be pretty interesting.

That sounds like an interesting idea. It may be a good way to bring back Serena since she was how you got the silver and gold axes. Plus I would like to see her come back. Having to do something like tasks to upgrade could make the process of upgrading fun.

 

[Mutti]

In wildworld she was based within the last upgrade of Nooks Cranny, that would of been a nice addition, or even if she was based in the side room or above the able sisters again.