The ACNH Rant Thread

[-Lumi-]

Obligatory montly rant about missing the postoffice and being able to order more than 5 things every day.
Also because we don't have information signs in all the exhibitions in the museum (like the art gallery has).

Yes very small features and a lot of people don't seem to care. But whenever I felt bored in NL I just decided to order a bunch of stuff to redo a room or exhibition, or I wondered in the museum like IRL and learn al the neat and cool facts about the creatures and fossils... Miss those days

I really miss the post office and being able to order more than five items a day, too. It's especially bothersome when I'm trying to order the limited time items and want several of them but I max out at 5 a day. I remember being frustrated with the New Years stuff because I wanted extras of some food (the champagne glasses in particular) and running into that, "You can only order 5 items per day!" message was annoying. Trying to re-order clothes can be really frustrating, too. Sometimes I'll gift clothes to my villagers, people on here, or I'll sell them. I'd love to be able to re-order more things at once instead of having to choose between re-ordering every colour variant of the sweetheart dress and nothing else or picking which colour I want most and ordering other items too.

The museum not having information signs makes me really sad! I don't see why we couldn't have Blather's tell us about the item and have an information sign in the museum. If I'm donating multiple items at once he won't tell me about them and sometimes I don't want to here the information while I'm donating something but instead while I'm wandering around the museum. The most frustrating part is that the signs are there they just... only tell me the names of the things I've donated now. The new museum is absolutely gorgeous and I think they did a really wonderful job with it but man, I really wish the information signs.

 

[-Blue-]

I hear ya. The 5 item limit is really annoying and having to wait another day just to get the items is just ridiculous. I just wish the items would just go straight to your mailbox and then you can just pick it up and open up the gifts to see the items instead of having to wait a day for it to arrive.

Buying things and having them come in the mail the next day has always been a thing. Maybe they could make it where mail comes twice a day again like it did with NL and the other games. Or let you order more per day, but it slowly comes every day until it catches up. Just like how NL did it.

I'm not really on board with everything being delivered immediately, however.

Oof, I hope that's not true. He's only been to my island twice now, both times having the serene and quaint painting (one fake, the other genuine). Hope that's not going to be a pattern

Maybe rng will treat you more kindly then it has me. I sure hope so, but it really is annoying. Redd didn't come as often in NL from what I recall, but he always had some kind of legit art and it was rarely a duplicate that I already owned. Probably until I got almost all of them. But I have so few, so it just seems excessive.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

So tired of seeing the mystic statue almost every time Redd visits

 

[VanitasFan26]

It really sucks how you cannot trade creatures (fish, bugs, and sea creatures) with your friends.

 

[mermaidshelf]

I'm sure this has been ranted about to death but I just started terraforming and there HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY... Also I don't like the fence situation. There are widths for certain fences (like the rope fence) and you can't choose and if you want it to be tapered off at the end without that very strange "T" end, the widths of the end don't match the rest of the fence. It's driving me insane.

 

[Starboard]

I really wish they had an edit mode with designing in the outdoors, it would make landscaping so much easier and fix issues like having limitations on how you can display things on tables.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I really wish they had an edit mode with designing in the outdoors, it would make landscaping so much easier and fix issues like having limitations on how you can display things on tables.

I agree its such a pain putting stuff outside and then having to move them and rotate them by using your hands. Its funny how there is a better moving feature inside our homes, yet there is none for the outside.

 

[-Blue-]

I agree its such a pain putting stuff outside and then having to move them and rotate them by using your hands. Its funny how there is a better moving feature inside our homes, yet there is none for the outside.

I remember commenting how all they have to do is implement the features from HHD (inside the home) to outside. And to make it manageable and not cause the game to lag they could make it where it only lets you move things in your screen or have a greened out square pattern where you could work. So if the furniture piece you want to move is not in the green square or half way out of it, you would have to exit the mode and move closer to the piece.

I've been finding myself not really wanting to bother playing on Saturday and Sundays because I already know what npc will be there (KK/Daisy) and so there's less incentive for me since I don't constantly decorate like the majority of the playerbase. I pick it up every now and then, but it's not everyday or even week.

 

[VanitasFan26]

After about a year I would say that crafting is by far the most tedious thing of all time. I mean sure it was cool to have it, but when you compare it to like Minecraft and Stardew Valley the crafting in those games were more simple and faster. Here it just feels like you need to constantly check your phone to see how many materials you need, go to your storage at home, take the materials out of storage, and then start crafting. Its 2021 and we still don't have a way to bulk craft. Crafting in this game is such a joke.

Also can I just say how there seems to be a lack of new DIYS lately, because even though I started my 2nd island I just somehow got mostly the same diys I got from my main island. Not much difference its pretty much the same. This would not bother me so much if there was more variety of new DIYS to get and earn. Since the Festivale event in February 2021 there really hasn't been any new DIYS and it just makes you wonder if we would ever get new diys. Like don't get me wrong the ones we currently have are really great, but I just wished by now we would have newer diys to make.

 

[King koopa]

After about a year I would say that crafting is by far the most tedious thing of all time. I mean sure it was cool to have it, but when you compare it to like Minecraft and Stardew Valley the crafting in those games were more simple and faster. Here it just feels like you need to constantly check your phone to see how many materials you need, go to your storage at home, take the materials out of storage, and then start crafting. Its 2021 and we still don't have a way to bulk craft. Crafting in this game is such a joke.

Also can I just say how there seems to be a lack of new DIYS lately, because even though I started my 2nd island I just somehow got mostly the same diys I got from my main island. Not much difference its pretty much the same. This would not bother me so much if there was more variety of new DIYS to get and earn. Since the Festivale event in February 2021 there really hasn't been any new DIYS and it just makes you wonder if we would ever get new diys. Like don't get me wrong the ones we currently have are really great, but I just wished by now we would have newer diys to make.

Maybe they'll add some in the future? Maybe in June, crafting will get an upgrade. I get Nintendo wanted to make a new feature but, there are ways to make something new and not be so annoying.

 

[Starboard]

I wouldn't mind crafting at all if we didn't have to keep remaking our tools. I've even considered starting to buy them instead because after a year I'm really really tired of it.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I wouldn't mind crafting at all if we didn't have to keep remaking our tools. I've even considered starting to buy them instead because after a year I'm really really tired of it.

Not to mention gold tools are worthless because you can't customize them to restart their durability. To this day there is still no way to tell if a tool is going to be break or not. I used a Gold Shovel that I haven't used in a while and in just 2 digs it just broke. How am I suppose to know it was going to break? Thats why there needs to be an indication of when its going to break.

 

[Jessi]

The. Campsite.

I don't know who made it the most annoying, tedious, and frustrating thing in the game. If I have a open plot, I shouldn't have to spend more than 20 minutes trying to get someone to move in.

The after whats seems like hours, they finally just go residential services, maybe. It really shouldn't be this hard getting a campsite villager

 

[King koopa]

Not to mention gold tools are worthless because you can't customize them to restart their durability. To this day there is still no way to tell if a tool is going to be break or not. I used a Gold Shovel that I haven't used in a while and in just 2 digs it just broke. How am I suppose to know it was going to break? Thats why there needs to be an indication of when its going to break.

I know, right? That's why I don't like to use my gold tools because I don't want it to randomly break. Plus I don't even have the golden shovel recipe, so what am I supposed to do if it breaks? Tools should have a little meter that shows how many more times you can use a tool before it breaks.

 

[azurill]

The. Campsite.

I don't know who made it the most annoying, tedious, and frustrating thing in the game. If I have a open plot, I shouldn't have to spend more than 20 minutes trying to get someone to move in.

The after whats seems like hours, they finally just go residential services, maybe. It really shouldn't be this hard getting a campsite villager

Exactly, it’s hard enough getting them to move in when you have a full island. When I was moving in Joey from the campsite I had an open plot and it still took 17 tries for him to finally agree to move in. Should be easy for them to move in when the plot is empty.

 

[King koopa]

The. Campsite.

I don't know who made it the most annoying, tedious, and frustrating thing in the game. If I have a open plot, I shouldn't have to spend more than 20 minutes trying to get someone to move in.

The after whats seems like hours, they finally just go residential services, maybe. It really shouldn't be this hard getting a campsite villager

I feel your pain. Idk if it's just me, but it seemed easier to invite villagers in New leaf. The game was easier, you would either play rock-paper-scissors or charades. And sometimes they won't even play a game, they just come in. But in this game, they try their very best move in, and when they do play a game, it's that super hard card game. And if somehow you get the card game right, well, congratulations, because they usually just ask to kick out someone you like! And the worst part is that once a villager picks who they want to move, you're stuck with it, until you soft reset. Idk, maybe it's just me.

 

[Starboard]

I think the campsite just showcases how wild the RNG in this game is. It can take a minute to move someone in or it can take hours.

Even without the part where they choose who to kick out, I remember spending half an hour losing all the card games and getting really agitated because I wanted to go to bed! Imo the RNG needs some kind of regulation so this kind of thing doesn't happen.

 

[azurill]

I really wish we could place the small rugs outside. At least be able to use the patterns we get from Sable. I think a rug would finish the area I’m working on but not very good at making patterns.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I think the campsite just showcases how wild the RNG in this game is. It can take a minute to move someone in or it can take hours.

Even without the part where they choose who to kick out, I remember spending half an hour losing all the card games and getting really agitated because I wanted to go to bed! Imo the RNG needs some kind of regulation so this kind of thing doesn't happen.

This is the reason why I bought Amiibo cards because at least when you finally invite the villager for the 3rd time on the 3rd day you have the option to pick who to move out. I never touched that campsite mini game ever again because like with others said its RNG based and its a real pain to deal with.

 

[AccfSally]

Terraforming in a populated area is a nightmare! The villagers love to get in the way. I'm fixing up an area between my Airport and Resident Service building (they are kinda close to each other), the villagers are coming and sitting on the ground and Hazel running around (her hobby is play).
I would use a fence, but it will get in my way.