The ACNH Rant Thread

In new leaf up to 20 a day (morning and afternoon delivery) and you could keep ordering more, but than it would be delivered the day(s) after.

Thanks. I never knew there was an exact number. I always thought it had something to do with whether or not you ordered more than your mailbox could hold... And yeah, getting your mail at both 6PM and 6AM was a lot better than his it works in New Horizons
 
so after fully completing my museum, collecting all diys and finishing my island
i wanna reset again

i had a really basic island before but my sister said i needed to decorate better, so i did and it looks ok i guess but it doesn't feel like animal crossing
i can't reset now but i also can't go back to give it a more natural look like when i started

so now i'm just gonna have to learn to live with a really bad island :(
(my sister said it's nice but it's my island and i don't like it)
 
Forgive me if I'm wrong but aren't the emails automatically deleted after you reach the 300 mark? I mean, you can't have more than 300 emails in your inbox, so the game automatically deleted the oldest emails whenever you receive a new one.
I tend to delete the mail in my box to. It's probably at like 30 letters if that. I don't know, maybe it's just that I like it looking tidy, so having a mass delete button would be cool. I know a ton of people just have so much clutter in their emails, but I can't stand that on my own. I delete emails almost daily and have something like 1-5 right now.
 
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I tend to delete the mail in my box to. It's probably at like 30 letters if that. I don't know, maybe it's just that I like it looking tidy, so having a mass delete button would be cool. I know a ton of people just have so much clutter in their emails, but I can't stand that on my own. I delete emails almost daily and have something like 1-5 right now.
Hahah my box is a mess! I just have a few mails that I've marked as favorites, but other than that, I just let the game delete all the others automatically. What is kinda strange is that the mail is now tied to the server.
 
I know this has probably been said before, but I really hate it when villagers talk to me about the people who visited my island.

It's such a pointless conversation, since 99% of the time they're strangers I trade with and I simply don't care.

I wish they'd reprogram it to at least only mention the people on your friend list when they visit or something.
 
I feel the pain of trying to get a 5* island. I have a ton of flowers and Isabelle is moaning I don’t have enough.

My annoyance for the day is I played for over four hours and not once did my villagers ping me or even talk to each other. I spoke to them but it really reminded me this game isn’t about animal socialisation. It’s about decorating.

Only being able to order 5 items a day is a awful design choice. I dont know what they were thinking.
 
I'm sure this has been posted before, but having just spent hours popping balloons, I need to vent my frustrations as well. I'm tired of seasonal/event items being procurred by popping balloons. I apparently have horrible luck and the balloons never have the DIY I want. By the time I get them, the event/season is nearly over and so is my desire to decorate my island with said item.

I wish there was another way the developers could introduce seasonal recipes, something not involving balloons. Granted there's the Gulliver items, wedding season items, etc that have different methods, but maybe include an alternate way to track down DIY recipes fore the main seasonal items. It just starts to seem kind of uninspired/lazy. I get that multiplayer interactions/trading are probably part of the reason the drop rates aren't the greatest, but the multiplayer experience is just as uninspired and time consuming in its own right. Sometimes its just impossible to get items via multiplayer for whatever reason as well.

so after fully completing my museum, collecting all diys and finishing my island
i wanna reset again

i had a really basic island before but my sister said i needed to decorate better, so i did and it looks ok i guess but it doesn't feel like animal crossing
i can't reset now but i also can't go back to give it a more natural look like when i started

so now i'm just gonna have to learn to live with a really bad island :(
(my sister said it's nice but it's my island and i don't like it)

This brings up something else I was thinking about. Wouldn't it be nice to have an option to reset the island and keep DIY/catalogue items? Resetting the island layout shouldn't be a painful thing in which someone looses hundreds of hours of RNG patience for the DIY recipes and cataloguing. Maybe there's some good reason I'm not comprehending at this point that has to do with cheating or something...

I've thought about resetting before but I just can't fathom loosing all the time I spent building my catalogue and DIY recipe book. o_O
 
so after fully completing my museum, collecting all diys and finishing my island
i wanna reset again

i had a really basic island before but my sister said i needed to decorate better, so i did and it looks ok i guess but it doesn't feel like animal crossing
i can't reset now but i also can't go back to give it a more natural look like when i started

so now i'm just gonna have to learn to live with a really bad island :(
(my sister said it's nice but it's my island and i don't like it)
Why not delete stuff and go back to a more natural island if that’s what you want?
 
Why not delete stuff and go back to a more natural island if that’s what you want?
i can't terraform natural looking cliffs
i want my island to look like when u have just started the game and the cliffs look natural and the whole island is covered in trees and weeds
and the whole thing just looks empty

my NL town was always empty and undecorated and i wanted my NH game to feel like that
it's my own fault for listening to my sister to be fair 😅
 
This brings up something else I was thinking about. Wouldn't it be nice to have an option to reset the island and keep DIY/catalogue items? Resetting the island layout shouldn't be a painful thing in which someone looses hundreds of hours of RNG patience for the DIY recipes and cataloguing. Maybe there's some good reason I'm not comprehending at this point that has to do with cheating or something...

this is why i caved and bought a switch lite and another copy. like i wouldnt have minded getting rid of sleeptime, but then all my hard work and over a thousand hours of diy gathering and progress would be gone. like, i get why everything resets, as its a brand new island and experience. but it all feels a bit scummy since nintendo uses this to make tons more money with more copies sold and more systems that people will use just for animal crossing
 
the only rant I have regarding this game atm is that it managed to lose my attention after only 4-5 months. what a pity. I've been playing Animal Crossing on the gamecube (same town) for 13 years and I still love going back to it frequently.

I do have a friend who's interested in getting the NH switch so if she starts playing I might get back into it, but for now there's nothing of interest to me until they release the Super Mario stuff.
 
Why do the jocks keep saying "Like that shirt" even when I wear dresses? Dialogue in the game is not great but this is among the worst bits of dialogue programming.
 
i can't terraform natural looking cliffs
i want my island to look like when u have just started the game and the cliffs look natural and the whole island is covered in trees and weeds
and the whole thing just looks empty

my NL town was always empty and undecorated and i wanted my NH game to feel like that
it's my own fault for listening to my sister to be fair 😅

I have used Happy Island Designer in the past to rebuild my island to make it look like a default island. It takes some patience and a lot of counting, but it works.
 
I dont really know where else to go with this so that's why I'm bringing it here. Its not about the game itself, I've said many and plenty of times that I think ACNH is comparatively sparse on content but that I still enjoy playing. It's very fun and I know downloads will be coming for quite a while.

I'm gonna be blunt: my biggest problem with the game isn't with the game at all, its the new players, or rather, a subset of new players. Particularly new players that keep bringing things like hard right conservatism in general into the game, but have never even heard of AC before now. They keep trying to use the game to push horrible things.

Lately, I've been noticing it getting more...idk what to call it...aggressive? Esp. with the Trump thing. I just wanna know if its just me or not. Every time I've seen it, it devolves into vicious name calling, threats and threats of violence. I'm tried of seeing it. Im starting to see everything from trump hats to confederate flags and worse. Even with the mustache problem in WW it's never been this bad before. Its like the hair nonsense on twitter was just the beginning but now its gotten really bad. I always report them but geez. AC community was never this way and while I get that the political climate esp. in the US is pretty bad right now, this crap is ruining the one thing I thought it couldn't touch.

I'm honestly starting to wish that NH never got popular. I know its great for Nintendo, but it makes me want to interact with the larger AC community less and less when this crap is tolerated until reported. Someone asked me yesterday if I knew where to find certain hard right wing patterns then had the nerve to ask me, 'What is New Leaf?' I just sighed and wrote off ever playing with them again. 😑

To be clear, I've never seen it on the Belltree. But going to other AC communities it's like, there be dragons...and worse.

/rant
 
I dont really know where else to go with this so that's why I'm bringing it here. Its not about the game itself, I've said many and plenty of times that I think ACNH is comparatively sparse on content but that I still enjoy playing. It's very fun and I know downloads will be coming for quite a while.

I'm gonna be blunt: my biggest problem with the game isn't with the game at all, its the new players, or rather, a subset of new players. Particularly new players that keep bringing things like hard right conservatism in general into the game, but have never even heard of AC before now. They keep trying to use the game to push horrible things.

Lately, I've been noticing it getting more...idk what to call it...aggressive? Esp. with the Trump thing. I just wanna know if its just me or not. Every time I've seen it, it devolves into vicious name calling, threats and threats of violence. I'm tried of seeing it. Im starting to see everything from trump hats to confederate flags and worse. Even with the mustache problem in WW it's never been this bad before. Its like the hair nonsense on twitter was just the beginning but now its gotten really bad. I always report them but geez. AC community was never this way and while I get that the political climate esp. in the US is pretty bad right now, this crap is ruining the one thing I thought it couldn't touch.

I'm honestly starting to wish that NH never got popular. I know its great for Nintendo, but it makes me want to interact with the larger AC community less and less when this crap is tolerated until reported. Someone asked me yesterday if I knew where to find certain hard right wing patterns then had the nerve to ask me, 'What is New Leaf?' I just sighed and wrote off ever playing with them again. 😑

To be clear, I've never seen it on the Belltree. But going to other AC communities it's like, there be dragons...and worse.

/rant
the hair thing was kind of.. above and beyond in my opinion. seeing joe biden's island was.. interesting as well (not that i'm roping those two into the exact same category, don't be confused by those being side-by-side). but those are always the costs with games that give you a large amount of creativity. people will turn their islands into perspectives of their opinion, whether those are very hard opinions or just a "i really like orange, so most of the things on my island are orange."

it is.. extremely disheartening to see so many people go from 0 to 100 extremely quick over things like a hairstyle being used in a fictitious game.

and i can definitely see how players from previous games would become frustrated from seeing this kind of behavior. luckily we aren't all like this though 🖤
 
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I dont really know where else to go with this so that's why I'm bringing it here. Its not about the game itself, I've said many and plenty of times that I think ACNH is comparatively sparse on content but that I still enjoy playing. It's very fun and I know downloads will be coming for quite a while.

I'm gonna be blunt: my biggest problem with the game isn't with the game at all, its the new players, or rather, a subset of new players. Particularly new players that keep bringing things like hard right conservatism in general into the game, but have never even heard of AC before now. They keep trying to use the game to push horrible things.

Lately, I've been noticing it getting more...idk what to call it...aggressive? Esp. with the Trump thing. I just wanna know if its just me or not. Every time I've seen it, it devolves into vicious name calling, threats and threats of violence. I'm tried of seeing it. Im starting to see everything from trump hats to confederate flags and worse. Even with the mustache problem in WW it's never been this bad before. Its like the hair nonsense on twitter was just the beginning but now its gotten really bad. I always report them but geez. AC community was never this way and while I get that the political climate esp. in the US is pretty bad right now, this crap is ruining the one thing I thought it couldn't touch.

I'm honestly starting to wish that NH never got popular. I know its great for Nintendo, but it makes me want to interact with the larger AC community less and less when this crap is tolerated until reported. Someone asked me yesterday if I knew where to find certain hard right wing patterns then had the nerve to ask me, 'What is New Leaf?' I just sighed and wrote off ever playing with them again. 😑

To be clear, I've never seen it on the Belltree. But going to other AC communities it's like, there be dragons...and worse.

/rant

I also into the comic book communities and other that have been getting into far right talking points. It seems like YouTube where they have their opinion getting into others the loudest, I would recommend to just avoid social/communities and influencers who share anti-swj & far right stuff. Don't let them ruin your enjoyment of you favorite entertainment and hobbies.
 
the hair thing was kind of.. above and beyond in my opinion. seeing joe biden's island was.. interesting as well (not that i'm roping those two into the exact same category, don't be confused by those being side-by-side). but those are always the costs with games that give you a large amount of creativity. people will turn their islands into perspectives of their opinion, whether those are very hard opinions or just a "i really like orange, so most of the things on my island are orange."

it is.. extremely disheartening to see so many people go from 0 to 100 extremely quick over things like a hairstyle being used in a fictitious game.

and i can definitely see how players from previous games would become frustrated from seeing this kind of behavior. luckily we aren't all like this though 🖤

I haven't seen any of that, though this is the only community I visit for AC. I'll occasionally visit Reddit for AC when I get an email about a viral post made in the AC sub, and I'll sometimes read comments made on some of the posts shared by @AnimalCrossing on Twitter.
 
The only thing I've seen about this was another member of TBT that I visited recently, and their flag had a "Trump 2020" message written on it. Wasn't exactly a good experience either, but I'd rather not elaborate on that because it was more of a lack of communication than anything else.
 
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