Okay... bear with me because I and the others here have never considered keeping Blathers's tent and the shack version of Nook’s Cranny in our islands before. Also, to be frank, your questions are very specific. I wonder what you plan on using those two for…
Now, I cannot answer your question about Nook’s Cranny (or even the rest of your questions…) but I might be able to answer the one you have about Mabel. It says in Nookipedia that you need to have bought at least 5 items and over 5,000 bells worth of them during at least two of her pop-up shop appearances and built the museum, Nook’s Cranny, and the upgraded Residental Services building to unlock the Able Sisters shop. To unlock Mabel’s shop, you need to see her in Nook’s Cranny. So I’m assuming from here that opening the Able Sisters does have to do with seeing Mabel in Nook’s Cranny.
It's hard for me to wrap my head around the other questions you have and I kept thinking to myself, who would do such a thing? I'd like to test out your questions through another Switch and see how it goes but that other Switch belongs to my sister and she doesn't want me using her's, so there's that.
Thank you for responding.
- So, I want to write this down so I don't forget. If Able Sisters has to do with Mabel in Nook's Cranny and that event is part of the requirements for upgrading Nook's, my
hypotheses are:
1. Never stepping foot in Nook's Cranny means the store will remain the shack indefinitely.
2. Never fulfilling buying 5 items worth 5,000 bells from her pop-up shop means never unlocking Able's.
Follow-up questions pertaining to this are:
- Can you still unlock terraforming without Able's ever being built? (I don't see it in the requirements so far)
- Can you set foot in Nook's Cranny shack and overhear Mabel, but because you don't spend the amount of bells in Nook's or from Mabel, it means you can still go inside the store to look around without ever triggering Nook's to upgrade? Additionally, still not being able to build Able Sisters since you didn't spend the required 5,000 bells for that?---> personally, I didn't restart
just to do some research/experimentation, so, I will not be entering Nook's for a long time to test out the first hypothesis. If someone else restarts and wants to test this, be my guest. Would love to hear the results.
(Leaving it here for me or someone else to uncover/answer if they like)
To answer your questions, I can understand why people may question my preference. I just like the aesthetic more. I've played animal crossing since it came out and this time around, I wanted to focus more on decoration. I've learnt a lot from other people with how to keep blathers in his tent instead of upgrading to the museum. I think for this island, having his tent being a lot smaller will fit my forest & country theme a lot better.
In terms of Nook's and Able's, I know from my past experience, you end up getting the apps on your Nookphone anyway. Obviously since I played it how it should be played, I was given the options. However, I can't remember if there was an amount of bells needed before those options appeared in the NookShop to buy with miles. So, I'm uncertain if it's even possible to buy those apps if I don't have the upgraded Nooks or have Ables on my island. (
if anyone has recently "downloaded" the apps on your nook phones, how did that go about? It's been so long, I can't remember if the option just appears or if Tom talks about it...)
Towards the end of me playing with my last island, I would hardly step foot in my stores when it was conviniently in my phone. I know the limitations with visitors, but I just wanted to post in case anyone has already done this before. I'm going to explore my questions more in time and will post updates, in case others are curious as well. So, if anyone wants to test these out, please feel free! A part of me was hoping someone can answer some of these questions so that I don't need to restart again, but I can see that it isn't done often.
Speaking of visitors, I wonder:
1. Can someone visiting your island go into Nook's before you have got the chance to?
2. If that person can, then does that mean you can go inside Nook's when someone is on your island without triggering overhearing Mabel talk to Tommy & Timmy? Hmmm....even more questions.
Keeping Blather's tent inspired and motivated me to see what exactly the rules were of this game, and to test out what can be done without it affecting other components. From the internet, it's so easy to ask how to unlock this or that, but there's little information if this affects that that hasn't got to do with requirements. I know without Able's, I won't get her free patterns, but I don't see anywhere so far that you have to have Able Sisters on your island at all for anything. Like you said, there's steps to unlocking it, but it's not like you need it to unlock the ability to terraform.
Right now, I'm currently testing Q#5, I've already sold maybe 2,000 bells worth of weeds to Timmy and Tommy. I don't have Nooks yet on my island because still trying to get the last remaining iron. Hopefully tomorrow, I can get it going so that by Monday, I get Nook's shack. From there, I plan on not touching it, unless I need to move it. We'll see if it stays that way.
