Anyone else don't like the idea of us choosing villagers house placement?

[brooklyn9]

(besides resetting)
I don't know, i feel like it wouldnt be normal if they could choose,
also i wouldnt be able to choose a spot and i'd end up choosing one i regret immediately.
Even though villagers choose spots i sometimes don't like, i would be less annoyed because i wouldnt have been able to do anything about it.

 

[Ankhes]

I'm indifferent to that idea. I can see both sides of the issue, but I don't do the resetting thing because I just don't have the time or the patience.

Regardless, Nintendo isn't likely, imo, to allow that option, anyway. So I think that people can ask for it all they want but won't get anywhere. If Nintendo implements any of the features being asked for, such as a separate place for tools, I don't think they can will take the trouble and/or spend the money to worry about people complaining about villager placement.

I'll admit I sometimes wish I could, since I have villagers in absolutely rotten places. Still, I also sort of like the randomness of it. It depends on my mood.

 

[Luna_Solara]

I don't care either way it goes on the villager placement thing personally. I mean, it is aggravating when they plop in a house in a bad spot but I accommodate it and eventually it grows on me.
I don't reset either, because I'm super lazy and have zero patience lol.

 

[Ankhes]

I don't care either way it goes on the villager placement thing personally. I mean, it is aggravating when they plop in a house in a bad spot but I accommodate it and eventually it grows on me.
I don't reset either, because I'm super lazy and have zero patience lol.

Hah! You said it much better than I did!

 

[Bulbadragon]

I like the idea of having a residential area separate from the main town, where all the player and villager houses are. Because it totally makes sense that you take your house with you when you move, right?

 

[Luna_Solara]

Hah! You said it much better than I did!

Lol - I never understood the aggravation with move-ins until Drift moved in and destroyed my Perfect Peach orchard... His house was literally in the center of it and it looked silly that way so I cut my losses and removed the remaining trees. When I eventually added a pathway, the house looked perfect where it was!
Then, Phoebe moved in and reminded me of the aggravation. I'd made a perfect straight line with my pathway and when she plopped her house down, she made this weird triangle with my campsite and my 3rd character's house, but in the end I figured out how to rebuild my path and it looks fine

 

[moonchu]

people just want what they can't have. already we have everyone resetting as a result of disliking police/campfire/cafe placement. can you imagine what would happen even if nintendo did allow for us to choose where to put villagers? it would merely end up causing problems of equal or greater value than what we currently have.

 

[Ankhes]

You both are right. Also, if people could choose everything easily then where would be the challenge?

However, one night I was over-tired and created a secondary character and placed her right in front of my train station. I have no idea why. I was just being tired and stupid. But that was my own fault, not Nintendo's. Still, I am enjoying trying to make the pathway go around her house and trying to make it look like I placed it that way naturally. (Yeah...who am I kidding?)

But yeah...I did have some hybrids destroyed by Renee and then part of my perfect peach orchard wrecked by Marina...

Ah...the joys of ACNL life!

 

[moonchu]

this would also erase the 'awe' factor that others have when visiting towns with the aligned villager homes. much, much less impressive and more boring would the straight aligned homes be seen if we could just plop them down there.

the awe factor is the largest reason as to why most people want the straight house line, imo.

 

[Luna_Solara]

Also, if people could choose everything easily then where would be the challenge?

This!
As much as it aggravated me when Drift and Phoebe wreaked havoc in my town, I loved fixing the pathways and moving plants and trees around. I also recently got Chadder and he moved into a perfect place - directly next to an already established pathway... That made me happy that my dreamie moved in and that he was in a good spot but it was also an uneventful move-in, I think I had to add 6 pattern pieces to the ground and that was it.

 

[AskaRay]

I didn't really care until I actually started developing my town.. I tried the reset method with Pekoe because why not?
and lo and behold she moved into my orchard, like the ONE PLACE i didnt want anyone to be. literally anywhere else would've been okay

so I'm glad I did.
But yeah I can see both sides really. The reset method is fine, effort if you really want something. Random surprise is fun too though.

 

[xiaonu]

Personally, who cares what other people do or why they reset? ^^; I would like this option. It would be nice to include it as a possible pwp option, so those who prefer random placements can keep the way it is, or those with prefferred spots can use the pwp option. Animal crossing is what you make it, so I think it would be fair for everyone to have their towns the way they like it. just my 2 cents.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

people just want what they can't have. already we have everyone resetting as a result of disliking police/campfire/cafe placement. can you imagine what would happen even if nintendo did allow for us to choose where to put villagers? it would merely end up causing problems of equal or greater value than what we currently have.

Even though it would be nice to choose where houses go, I imagine people complaining about: "Ugh im so mad since theres no room to put this house!" and such. I sort of wish it was like in the previous games where there was a sign and it was already chosen for you.

 

[moonchu]

Even though it would be nice to choose where houses go, I imagine people complaining about: "Ugh im so mad since theres no room to put this house!" and such. I sort of wish it was like in the previous games where there was a sign and it was already chosen for you.

word.

and look, this isn't me being for nor against what people do with their own towns. i myself plot reset, though admittedly not nearly as precisely as others. i suppose it just gets tiring to see so many people complain about how they can't control every little inch of their town. this is not what AC intended, and if it was, they would have already implemented it. we can plot reset, but that's not good enough. if we could choose, that wouldn't be good enough either.

but then i guess i digress, because this would turn into more a debate about human nature. ahhh sorries.

 

[Ankhes]

This!
As much as it aggravated me when Drift and Phoebe wreaked havoc in my town, I loved fixing the pathways and moving plants and trees around. I also recently got Chadder and he moved into a perfect place - directly next to an already established pathway... That made me happy that my dreamie moved in and that he was in a good spot but it was also an uneventful move-in, I think I had to add 6 pattern pieces to the ground and that was it.

LOL! You've cheered me up! I should VM you my DC sometime (if that town has it...I can't recall right now) and show you what I did. It is REALLY bad. >_< Still, I'm trying to slowly make the best of it. I must have been thinking, "Hm...where should I set her house to make sure some villager doesn't take it?" and then proceeded to pick the worst spot ever! I just wasn't thinking.

captain katie, you also have a great point. A straight line would be cool to allow us to do PWP's and such the way we want...but then when we step back and look at the result it would look just like a regular old real life cookie-cutter subdivison with the same 5 colours of paint and 3 styles of house.

In other words...B O R I N G.

 

[lutrea]

I think that you should be able to pick where their houses go. Yeah, we will probably never see that option, but I especially think we should have gotten it in New Leaf. I mean, you are the friggin mayor! In a real town you can't go and build a random house in the middle of the park or whatever. xD I think it just would have been really nice. You could go up to the plot and it would read "spot reserved for blahblahblah" and then a little pop up could be like "Is this spot okay?" and then on the bottom screen it could be like "yes! perfect!" or "ehh..." and if you click ehhh Isabelle comes out and you guys find a good spot together! It would be a really nice feature to add to new AC games, but I won't hold my breath for it.

 

[Ankhes]

Actually, where I live you CAN build your house where you want. At least within reason. There is land to buy and lots of acres of it. You buy it and pay for your house to be built and there you have it. You have your own house where you want it. The only thing is you may have to pay a bit extra to have city water piped in, but again you could always have a well dug or a cistern installed.

Now, in the middle of a busy town, no, you can't. But in most places, and in the US it is mostly rural despite what many think, you can pretty much build where you want if you don't buy a pre-existing house.

 

[luckysnake23]

I don't mind relandscaping paths/trees, but I don't want my hybrids to be wiped out with a random house placement.

 

[Kindra]

I'm not a big fan of the idea.
It would certainly make landscaping easier, but that's just the thing. It takes the challenge out of it. :/
Besides, I kind of like the fact that you can't really control what your villagers do and where they choose to live. You can influence them, but they're not puppets. It's more realistic.
I don't know if this even makes sense but that's my two cents!

 

[WonderK]

I wouldn't care either way. I'm fine plot resetting. If Nintendo does implement it in the next Animal Crossing installment, that'd be great. If not? No skin off my back.