The ACNH Rant Thread
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I wish we could place down empty buildings on our islands. Not houses, but commercial buildings like a police station or a hospital. I turned a whole house into a hotel, but imagine if I could actually make a hotel… I’m surprised this wasn’t a thing with how much emphasis Nintendo put on design.
Corrie
✨ I confess, I'm a sinner
My brain is fried on what to design. I have lots of space to design my island but am out of ideas on what to put. The options I can come up with are boring. Another seating area, yet more cafes... They gave us more items but I still can't come up with anything unique. Not sure if I'm the only one having this issue.
More a pet peeve than a rant but I wish that buying a new outfit and changing into it immediately counted for the access your wardrobe and change your look Miles achievement. Also, I still haven't caught a third Napoleonfish for the model so I'm grouchy about that. Have been trying for a couple hours today.
Add to that a lot of unnecessary restrictions, and designing becomes a big hassle trying to make something work.
Like I wanted to make an arcade building, but there's not a lot of arcade furniture like there was in NL so I had to compromise. The space invader piece is missing, so I used the study carrel and tablet to create a somewhat alright version. I designed several QR patterns for oldschool games like Donkey Kong, Dig Dud, Pacman ect and was proud of how they turned out. Only for it to be cropped by the tablet furniture piece. So I had to waste time figuring out where exactly I could edit the new grid to be positioned correctly for the smaller QR of the tablet furniture piece.
It ended up being something like 6 rows at the top and 5 on the bottom would not be seen.
Corrie
✨ I confess, I'm a sinner
That sounds terrible. The grid system sucks and legit ruins a lot of designs. I wanted to put a tree near a cliff with a waterfall behind it but of course I wasn't allowed to. If I wanted to there would be an awkward gap.
Tulaash
Resident Suicune
I wish that getting reactions wasn't so difficult. I'm missing a few reactions from a couple villager types, and I'm currently working on cranky. It feels like Fang is never going to give me that last reaction! What's weird is he gave me the best friends reaction before this one. I already got his photo, so I just need this one reaction and then I'm ready to move him out and move on to the next type.
This doesn’t pertain to New Horizons, more so Population Growing, but I hate how you’re just dragged into the HRA. I don’t like the unsolicited letters telling you what’s wrong with your home. I like how you actually have an option in the newer games to join or not (at least I think you get an option — I don’t recall getting any letters from them in New Horizons). I design my home in a way that makes me happy and not to please some phantom people from the HRA.
i dont like how many villagers that you Have To Have. i know some folks can pull this off by terraforming, but i dont like doing that and the maps that ive had dont really have enough space to spread out the villagers AND have a bunch of different amusements in between without terraforming.
i wish they would make it *after youve achieved the 5 star island for awhile* so that you can boot out the neighbors that you dont want *my perfect number would be 5-6* and your ranking doesnt change; and you can still invite new villagers if you want.
i wish they would make it *after youve achieved the 5 star island for awhile* so that you can boot out the neighbors that you dont want *my perfect number would be 5-6* and your ranking doesnt change; and you can still invite new villagers if you want.
You don’t necessarily have to have ten. As far as I know, you need at least 7 or 8 villagers to achieve a three star island (for terraforming), but other than that, you’re free to have however many villagers you want.
Corrie
✨ I confess, I'm a sinner
Agreed! Mail spam is bad enough, I don't need more. I delete those HRA letters immediately.
I just hate how you have to open up to delete them, and how there’s no option to delete in bulk — at least, not that I remember.
Corrie
✨ I confess, I'm a sinner
THAT TOO. I can't stand that. My inbox was full and I painstakingly had to enter each letter and delete one by one. I want to speak to the developers on a personal level.
I really hate that. I signed up for it because I wanted the rewards that came from it, but now I get a pointless letter every week and I don't think there's a way to stop it.
I'd much prefer it if, after reaching the highest level and award, you stopped receiving the letters, but can talk to an NPC instead whenever you want to check out your score.
That, or if we can toggle it on and off. That would’ve been an obvious feature.
god i wish there was a sort of "reset your island's terraforming to a default map" button or feature or something...like the cleanup feature but for your whole map lol. an "i hecked up real bad and need to get rid of it all just shove all the buildings on the beach" button
Shawna
AroAce, ASD, and Proud ^^
This along with trees, flowers and other plants (You can put picked flowers in your storage, but not the entire flower plant)
I am absolutely LOSING MY MIND trying to find and catch a Giraffe Stag. That and a fly are literally the last two bugs I need for my critterpedia. I have spent HOURS looking for this stupid beetle, walking back and forth slowly around palm trees…
I have completed the Critterpedia in WW, NL, and almost did in CF and GC. I am not exaggerating when I say this has been the most difficult and tedious thing to catch in all the games. I thought the Coelacanth in WW was as far as Nintendo would go to make me suffer. Guess not.
I have completed the Critterpedia in WW, NL, and almost did in CF and GC. I am not exaggerating when I say this has been the most difficult and tedious thing to catch in all the games. I thought the Coelacanth in WW was as far as Nintendo would go to make me suffer. Guess not.
Bui
Buizel fan and Rambley stan
This is going to suck since it will prevent you from making any progress until you've caught it, but the way I found the Giraffe Stag was to visit a Nook Miles island during the time of day where it could be found (between 5pm and 8am), and then staying on that island until I caught it. To make it easier, I cut down all of the regular trees on the island, dug up all of the stumps, and destroyed all of the flowers to try to reduce the potential spawn points for other bugs. Time will not advance on Miles islands. I mean, the time will change and the sun will still rise and set, but the island will otherwise remain in a time freeze, acting like it was whatever time you arrived at. That means that the bug will be able to spawn the entire day on the island rather than being restricted to between 5pm and 8am. You also won't be interrupted when the day rolls over like you normally would on your regular island. When you get tired of the grind, you can just suspend the game and come back to it later (or the next day) and pick right up where you left off at any time you'd like. It might still be a long and grueling grind, but in my opinion I found it to be easier than trying to hunt on my own island, which seemed to outright refuse to spawn any bugs on palm trees at all.I am absolutely LOSING MY MIND trying to find and catch a Giraffe Stag. That and a fly are literally the last two bugs I need for my critterpedia. I have spent HOURS looking for this stupid beetle, walking back and forth slowly around palm trees…
I have completed the Critterpedia in WW, NL, and almost did in CF and GC. I am not exaggerating when I say this has been the most difficult and tedious thing to catch in all the games. I thought the Coelacanth in WW was as far as Nintendo would go to make me suffer. Guess not.
Thanks so much for the advice! I was doing that (learned from NL beetle farming back in the day lol), however I had no idea time didn’t advance on the islands, so that’s really good to know. I wanted to take a break quite a few times, but didn’t because I had a good island setup and didn’t want to do all the prep work again. Very helpful to know I can leave the game running!
Thankfully last night, about 30 minutes after posting I caught it! Then I went back to my town, threw a bunch of trash on the ground, and caught a fly, my actual final bug. A little anti-climatic, but I’m so glad I have them all now!
… now for the fish. Ugh.
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