On the subject of the dock and hotel does it seem awkward that the extended pier goes almost all the way out to the boundary? It just seems like it should be shorter than that.
Technically, the feature where you can place object freely outside on the island had origins in Wild World.
Wild World was the first game to have a feature where you can donate Bells. But it was more of a charity feature with the only prize being feathers.
City Folk expanded on this feature, introducing projects that you can build by funding the town. The only projects back then were a third bridge, a fountain, and a lighthouse or windmill.
New Leaf expanded on the feature brought by City Folk, where you have multiple projects to fund instead of just three. And you can place them anywhere.
The freedom to place projects anywhere got more relaxed in New Horizons. You can place objects anywhere at no cost (but you may have to gather resources or spend Bells or Nook Miles to get the objects).
As someone who hasn't terraformed that much on my first island, the water terraforming is so uck. >.<
Can't entirely tell what I wanna do, but also not sure if I should make the rivers straight enough, or have the river bulky. Should I have waterfalls? I'm not sure, I'm tempte to go through dream addresses and youtube videos again.
If the villagers could be non existant while I terraform, that'd be great.