Regarding players claiming their island is out of room

[Mairen]

I had to make a thread about this because it absolutely stuns me to hear people complaining about the possibility of more buildings being added. " I hope the dream suite is a separate island like harveys", "I want the cafe and gift shop to be part of the museum," "etc." If you were to put every building side-by-side and attempt to keep them as close together as possible, I don't think it would even take up 10% of your island space. I understand that everyone has various decorating styles, but what are you guys putting on your islands that is taking up 90% of it's space, aside from buildings, to the point you don't even want nintendo to release new facilities?

I've tried to think of kinder ways to word the above, but I fear I couldn't, so I apologize if it sounded harsh. I'm not hating on anyone, just super surprised and would love to hear input from you guys.

(As we sadly have to state these days, this is not a thread for bashing others based on their playstyle or decorating style. )

 

[naranjita]

I gave all of my villagers their own front yard with enough space for a few pieces of furniture, so that alone takes up a huge amount of space

 

[Red Cat]

Right now, I have all of my buildings and villager homes clustered around RS for convenience, and the rest of my island is wide open for trees, flowers, water, furniture etc. I suppose some people have landscape designs that require a lot more available space and they don't like to cluster buildings, but physically running out of space is almost impossible since there is a lot of room to squeeze things in even if it's not the most aesthetically pleasing.

 

[cloudmask]

a lot of us have designated "neighborhoods" for things. i have a shopping centre, two housing neighborhoods, my mountain/forest area, and then some space i'm still working on. the problem is that we've already laid out these areas, so with new buildings we would have to spend a lot of time and bells moving everything around to put them cleanly in the areas we want them to be in.

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

Best scenario for me would be that placing buildings would be optional, but knowing Nintendo, that ain’t happening.

I personally don’t want my island filled with buildings. I didn’t set out to build a city. If Nintendo, and the AC team, are true to the message they’ve sold on NH, we should be able to make our island to our own design. Filling the island with buildings ain’t it. I’m trying to model my island more town like. At the moment I’ve used most spaces because some of them make sense not to be filled out. If I have a forest, why put something I don’t want in it or something that’ll mess my entire theme? And that’s my other concern. I don’t want many builds bc that’ll probably mean more builds that don’t make sense to what I’m making. I’d rather expand on current buildings.

If you’re saying: adapt your island to these buildings, that’s disingenuous and the complete opposite of what NH was “sold” to be.

I also don’t think more builds = more content. Content can be translated in other ways.

 

[edsett]

Kinda glad I haven’t planned out my town yet. I wasp waiting to see if we got new buildings and stuff lol.

 

[Flygon]

a lot of us have designated "neighborhoods" for things. i have a shopping centre, two housing neighborhoods, my mountain/forest area, and then some space i'm still working on. the problem is that we've already laid out these areas, so with new buildings we would have to spend a lot of time and bells moving everything around to put them cleanly in the areas we want them to be in.

I agree with this. It's not that they'd take up too much space, it's that redesigning everything would be incredibly tedious.

 

[ForgottenT]

Exactly my thoughts, if people absolutely can't stand to have more facilities because they need those 300 trees, or 70th set of benches, or sea that covers half their islands, then just put them out of they way somewhere, buildings barely take up any space, and it stuns me too that people are so against it, bushes already had me tear my entire island apart to redo it, and it's fine.

 

[Maiana]

My island has too much space ;u;
I actually have plans to create more players on my switch just so I can fill up space. Even then, I'll have space to place the buildings. But as stated above, a lot of people have plans for big neighborhoods, greenhouse areas, forestry areas, etc. I think those and the extra detailing with custom design patterns probably take up a lot of space.

 

[CovisGod]

For those that say “so have this here, and that there I have no room”

Don’t be ridiculous, move things? If when the game came out a month ago there was an extra building you’d have found room for it. Stop being lazy and update accordingly,

Throw what ever extra buildings you can at me Nintendo, I’ll have a mini breakdown for 2 hours about moving things, eventually just get on with it and be happier in the knowledge that I have somewhere extra to visit.

 

[Kurashiki]

personally i agree and do hope that they add more buildings and i dont mind adjusting my island accordingly, but definitely see how it can be frustrating for people who have spent a lot of time getting their islands the way that they want and then have to completely rearrange things after updates.

 

[InkFox]

All my inhabitants are scattered all over my island, so it obviously takes a lot of space as I have given them all private areas, but honestly I'd be so happy if they could add new buildings. I don't mind having to rework some parts of my Island, that's part of the game and that would keep me busy, make the island more lively ! New buildings are definitely what I want the most, I don't want them to squeeze everything into the museum or on new islands.

 

[MegaExploit]

I think they have to get the mix right of not adding too many new buildings to the island as some people have it decorated plus maybe having a couple of people on the switch with a house too. But without knowing how many buildings they have planned I cant really say. I wouldn't mind if at some point they have to add another area like harvey's island if it means we get more features in the game.

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

For those that say “so have this here, and that there I have no room”

Don’t be ridiculous, move things? If when the game came out a month ago there was an extra building you’d have found room for it. Stop being lazy and update accordingly,

Throw what ever extra buildings you can at me Nintendo, I’ll have a mini breakdown for 2 hours about moving things, eventually just get on with it and be happier in the knowledge that I have somewhere extra to visit.

No need to be pedantic/petty at people for saying they have no room, whatever that means for them.

 

[baobei]

In my new leaf gameplay, I strictly lined up all my villager houses in a straight line with 1 block in between each of them and clustering the rest of my buildings in their own area leaving a whole bunch of room.

With new horizons I decided to branch out my buildings and villager homes to let them have their own yards/space ;; likewise, with larger yards leaves less room lol however I'm all up for the addition of new buildings and the challenge of trying to find space for everything.

 

[cloudmask]

i should also mention that i'm not saying i don't want new buildings. i'm just pointing out why some of us would face a space issue.

 

[moonolotl]

I'm struggling for space mainly because im very fussy and i like my buildings to always be against walls so theres nothing behind them lol (other than in certain circumstances) however id really love for new buildings! id hate for the cafe to just be shoved in the museum again because i dont think id visit it as often. 2 buildings isnt cutting it for me, i need more!!

 

[Bcat]

Maybe this wouldn't be such a problem if you didn't have to pay 50,000 bells TWICE just to move something over a space or two.

 

[Raz]

I don't use the "neighborhood design", which saves a lot of space. Also, as I'm going towards a more natural layout (as natural as possible, at least), I'll inevitably have some "empty" room that needs to be empty (kinda like why empty space matters in BotW). Empty space is part of the composition, so I can understand where people are coming from when they say they have no space. Granted, most of these people are placing a ton of furniture around, which is kinda different than what I have in mind, so I may not have a problem (at least not like them).

While I hope the Café Will be added as a unique building, I think the dream suite (if it even needs to be added, but that's another discussion) could very well be located at Harvey's Island.

 

[Sloom]

I really can't input that much, as the only thing I've done so far is the lead-up to my museum. but from that I can tell you, even after trying to make it shorter and smaller it takes up a mahoosive portion of the centre of my map.

if you're all about them theatrics, then you can definitely use up space pretty quickly. I'm going to try to be more conservative with my space from now on. but I can't say I wouldn't be disappointed if the dream suite/cafe/brothel/whatever was a separate island because I think 2 shops and a town hall is a tad lacklustre.