Can’t visit a random dream....

[LuchaSloth]

Random islands are probably turned off because all of the customization in this game makes it unpredictable what you might see.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I'm sure they will add it in at some point. Maybe they are just waiting until a lot of people upload their islands as a dream? Hopefully?

 

[airpeaches]

The random option was so cool. There are plenty of lovely towns I would never have seen without it! I'm so disappointed too. ☹ I hope they add it in later, or that you guys are right and maybe it's just because they wanted a smooth launch or something. For now I just have to find random ones online, but that just takes some of the mystery out of it!

 

[LuchaSloth]

They probably need to approve a large quantity of dreams as "safe" before they can have a random feature. They won't want kids going to random islands with inappropriate content. So..."random" wouldn't necessarily pull from all of the islands uploaded...it would only be the ones in the pool of islands that are checked and approved by Nintendo. Which obviously takes time to amass.

That's my guess...

 

[Paperboy012305]

Aww shucks, I'm bummed about this. It was the main reason why I loved dreaming in New Leaf.

(With enough feedback on this Nintendo would possibly give you the option to visit random dreams.)

 

[Eureka]

Wait a minute, do you guys think that hacked items could play a role in why there isn't randomizer?

 

[Toska]

This feels like a silly decision on Nintendos part. Like why? Along with others, I would have no idea of what code to search up, plus the random made it fun! I was actually excited for this update just because of this, so I could get inspiration, just for it to not be added. Definitely disappointed.

 

[Rowlet28]

Random island were cool so that you won't expect what you're getting into but I guess it can't be helped for now. Hoping they add it in some future update but there are still plenty of features to come in the next few months so there's that.

 

[MayorofMapleton]

Make sure you guys have Nintendo Online or it won't work.

 

[dragonair]

To be honest I never used the random feature in New Leaf because I wouldn't come across anything super amazing. ; v ; Things that always seem to be such a big deal to others are never that important to me lmao.

 

[Jessi]

I was really, really disappointed when I found this out

 

[Underneath The Stars]

welp that sucks

 

[Rosch]

Well, you can think of random numbers and see if you get a hit. You can alter the last two digits of your dream address for example.

 

[mikanmilk]

Yeah this is pretty disappointing. Randomly discovering cool unknown towns from around the world in NL was awesome. Now everyone’s just gonna be going to the same rotation of popular islands or the islands people in their online social group post.
No feeling of surprise or discovery.
And people who don’t use social media much won’t even get their islands seen at all.

 

[Xara]

hhhng yeah i’m kind of disappointed about this. granted, i didn’t visit random dream towns in new leaf very often and typically opted to use dream addresses, being able to visit random ones probably would’ve been a good warmup for everyone to start with ;;

 

[helloxcutiee]

The random towns Luna took you to were ugly anyways the town was always extremely empty like the player just gave up playing after a week.

 

[John Wick]

The random towns were the best.

 

[Loriii]

Oh yeah, I'm disappointed that you specifically need to enter the DA to be able visit other islands. It's a step back from New Leaf

 

[Barney]

This is pretty stupid on their part if there are no random islands. If you’re part of an AC forum or group it’s probably not that big a problem but for other people they’ll probably just have Dream addresses of people they already know, which makes it pointless to even use the dream suite.

I just assumed that was how it would work, or that islands could be sorted into differeent categories for you to choose from.

My friend plays AC but isn't on forums or twitter etc...so she'll have no way of getting codes to visit, other than mine...and she visits my island every week anyway.

I don't like the fact that this is adding in another element that's external to the game...finding cool islands to visit should be in-built into the game somehow.

 

[mayortiffany]

I'm disappointed to hear that random dream addresses are gone. To be honest, I don't have faith that Nintendo would bring it back. With the way the update system is, there is no guarantee that anything will be added/brought back unless we receive direct confirmation about it from Nintendo themselves.

My favourite part of the dream suite used to be visiting random people's towns! Even though they were sometimes a bit sparse, I enjoyed meeting other villagers and running around on different islands. It's easier to just pick random towns than to search on social media for towns, plus you are more likely to run into unique towns this way.

I'm not quite sure what rationale Nintendo would have for removing this feature besides effort/server space. Hacked dream towns were available in the previous games, and I'm not sure if Nintendo would remove this entire feature simply to prevent people from being able to access hacked towns. I also don't remember dream towns needing to be approved in any way before they were uploaded (though I can't remember if there was a report feature available either).