Spawn rates for Insects were stealth-nerfed

[Nefarious]

Nerf Tarantulas they say, as I get a heart attack back to back from encountering two within 15 minutes of each other.

I did notice that pea butterflies weren't spawning much at all today. A shame really, that was one of the only ways I was able to make money. It was definitely hard making money without abusing turnips before the update, it's even harder now. Guess it wasn't a bad idea letting my friend abuse my 443 turnip price today. Hopefully the few mil bells they tipped me holds me over for a while.

 

[Bioness]

Can't say I'm surprised.

I remember thinking, on more than a few occasions while playing, that New Horizons is way easier than Wild World or New Leaf because so many of the more expensive insects spawn so often. (And I did spend an unreasonable amount of time in my game just catching and selling them.)

From the developers' point of view, Animal Crossing is meant to be played for short periods at a time, so that the pace is relaxed, and you unlock more things as you go along. It isn't meant to be played like most of us are playing now, for crazy long hours at a stretch, day after day.

A big part of that problem was due to hybrid flowers constantly reproducing and filling up islands. Peacock Butterfly spawns in particular were reduced by 90%, which is excessive.

 

[CrankyCupcake]

@Bioness

Agreed. I wonder if they would... nerf the spawn rate of hybrid flowers!?

 

[FireNinja1]

It kind of boggles (and disappoints) me that they would want to nerf so many of these and actively discourage players from spending time catching bugs and working up their own income (even without time traveling).

Definitely agree, especially since the developers aren't exactly keen on the idea of time-traveling. Nerfing the spawn rates for bugs would give people stronger reason to TT, not the other way around.

Wonder if they're going to nerf the stalk market next.

 

[Hesper]

Press F to pay respects for Flick.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Did they also nerf the bells from yellow balloons? I don't remember getting so many socks from those.

 

[Eirrinn]

I don’t understand why they nerfed the rates by so much? This only hurts legitimate players

 

[KeatAlex]

Ugh, I have yet to see a Scorpion and now they're RARER!? How am I ever going to find one now :/

 

[FireNinja1]

A big part of that problem was due to hybrid flowers constantly reproducing and filling up islands. Pea**** Butterfly spawns in particular were reduced by 90%, which is excessive.

I mean, is it really a bad thing if the spawn rate for hybrids is high?

 

[skylucario]

oddly enough, i feel like i’m seeing PC butterflies MORE often now...but that’s probably just because it finally isn’t raining in my town anymore.

 

[Sharla Smith]

Ugh, I have yet to see a Scorpion and now they're RARER!? How am I ever going to find one now :/

I mean, there’s Tarantula and Scorpion Islands, but I agree.

It’s hard to find even warf roaches ffs... my island feels kinda empty with so few bugs. Why, Nintendo? If you really want to nerf players, I’d nerf the turnip market.

 

[JKDOS]

Yeah....Screw making an honest living, I'm going to invest in stalks full time.

 

[skogkyst]

It's really disappointing to me that this will likely have a very negative effect on Tarantula Island farming, which is my main source of major income besides the (completely unreliable) stalk market. This is going to slow progress on my house, terraforming, buying expensive items at Nook's Cranny, etc. I'm not really sure where to make my money now.

 

[JKDOS]

If you have a bunch of iron nuggets saved up, the iron frame sells for 15,000, of course it uses 20 pieces.

How much does a single piece of iron sell for? 15,000 is chunk change for 20 pieces of iron.

 

[Sharla Smith]

It's really disappointing to me that this will likely have a very negative effect on Tarantula Island farming, which is my main source of major income besides the (completely unreliable) stalk market. This is going to slow progress on my house, terraforming, buying expensive items at Nook's Cranny, etc. I'm not really sure where to make my money now.

How do you reliably get it? I have never gotten to there or Scorpion Island. Or Shark Island.

 

[Envy]

That's a bit disappointing. Butterflies were one of my largest sources of income.

Also, I liked how common tarantulas were. In past games, they were so rare, I believe I only saw like one over the span of WW, CF, and NL. They're really fun to run into and catch, as well.

The tarantula island exploits were a bit much for me, though. I ran into the real tarantula island once and that was fun (it is an island scenario programmed by the developers to act that way, so I see no problem with it), but making every island into a tarantula island seemed to be over thetop.

 

[JKDOS]

I'm not really sure where to make my money now.

If you play the stalks, you're guaranteed to make millions per week, you just have to put a little effort into looking for someone. I haven't tried it yet, but there is a website called turnip.exchange that should help. If you or the host is TT'ing, well, you can make probably a few hundred million per day by keep buying more turnips and then going off to sell them.

 

[skogkyst]

How do you reliably get it? I have never gotten to there or Scorpion Island. Or Shark Island.

I make my own "Tarantula Island" by removing all trees and flowers and such so that flower/tree/stump bugs don't spawn. It's time consuming but it works for making a good 200-400k depending on how many you catch.

If you play the stalks, you're guaranteed to make millions per week, you just have to put a little effort into looking for someone. I haven't tried it yet, but there is a website called turnip.exchange that should help. If you or the host is TT'ing, well, you can make probably a few hundred million per day by keep buying more turnips and then going off to sell them.

Thanks for the info, but I don't know if I have the energy to fit the long ques and high entry fees in NMT for online stalk market trading. I've mostly stuck to living with what my island has to offer so far.

 

[Dormire]

No wonder. I thought butterflies were kinda not frequent in my flower fields anymore...

 

[Baroque]

Well I did feel like there weren’t nearly enough stinkbugs showing up. Finally!