I found this guide about writing letters, based on the game's own data!
www.polygon.com
Basically, a few years ago a fan looked into the game's inner workings and figured out the system. The game does a bunch of checks and adds/docks points accordingly. I recommend reading the whole thing for details but the most surprising is that it compares what you've written with a list of common trigrams (three-letter combinations) and gives you points if you use those.
Anyway, I usually write "good" letters in NL and such, but today I was playing ACGC, felt lazy, and sent letters that were a bunch of hearts and stars. OOPS.
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The Animal Crossing letter system, explained
A Twitter user delves into one of Animal Crossing’s many hidden secrets
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Basically, a few years ago a fan looked into the game's inner workings and figured out the system. The game does a bunch of checks and adds/docks points accordingly. I recommend reading the whole thing for details but the most surprising is that it compares what you've written with a list of common trigrams (three-letter combinations) and gives you points if you use those.
Anyway, I usually write "good" letters in NL and such, but today I was playing ACGC, felt lazy, and sent letters that were a bunch of hearts and stars. OOPS.