Ways You Would Improve New Leaf?

[Ami Mercury]

Some ideas Ive had (Hopefuly some of them havent been mentioned here yet?

-Slightly bigger map and being capable of building 50 PWPs instead of 30.
-Slightly bigger beach where you can also build a few beach-specific PWPs (Including a building right nex to the docks for Kapp?n to stay in/do some business at so he doesnt just sit out on his boat and a SPA where you can ask for perma tans for those who want to keep their darker skin and a skin treatment for those who want to do undo their perma-tans)
-Ive always had the theory that Cyrus wont refubrish Gracie?s furniture not because he cant (He is definitively very capable) but because he would get into legal trouble if Gracie was to find out, so maybe after spending a certain ammount of money at Gracie?s shop, she would let you order custom-made furniture with diferent colors, a "Special offer that she only gives to those who have proven they have the artistic vision to deserve the best of the best".
-Maybe a temporary PWP that lets you decide where the next villager will move into? (So you still have to kinda work for it, and of course it wouldnt count as one of your 50 PWPs)
-More species, SPECIALY insects and sea creatures! For insects I could see butterflies and bees, for sea creatures I could see normal fishes and sharks.
-Automatic stacking.
-Letting you have "flower boquets" that let you stack 9 of the same flower and can be displayed as boquets at your house!
-Diferent inventory place for tools.
-A "vacation" option that lets you go on a hiatus without losing a villager or having them get mad at you. (Like, weeds and stuff like that would still grow if you dont have Beautiful Town, but once you came back villagers would be like "Did you enjoy your time off? How was it? Did you bring me something?" instead of "HOW DARE YOU LEAVE US, WE WHERE SO WORRIED"). You would have to pay for it of course.
-Bridges not needing SO MUCH space to be built
-Just being a bit more lenient with PWP placement.
-A little "residential area" around where you can visit all your favorite NPCs when they are not working at their shops and stuff! Maybe even get their pictures if you befriend them well enough?
-An assistant for Isabelle so she gets to have some free time, seriously as much as I love having Isabelle available all the time THE GIRL NEEDS TO REST EVERY NOW AND THEN D:
-And that assisstant could have a brother who helps Digby with HRA so he gets some free time too?
-Relocating rocks those are such a pain.
-Having Isabelle keep tabs on who is planning to move (Explanation being that the villagers go to her so she knows that there is a chance their house has to be demolished) so you can save them in time.
-Customizable bottoms.
-Having the ability to rotate PWPs
-Racoons and Foxes please! Officialy The Nooks and Redd are "Tanukis" and a "Kitsune" so Im sure they could just make different models for the actual villagers that look more normal.
-Make it so that you can walk trough bushes if you push enough (with a special animation that shows the villager struggling to move around and shaking leaves when he finishes) so the limit of how many bushes can be put next to each other is eliminated.
-Give Celeste her old job back!
-Some kind of "fruit stand" that lets you turn fruits into hand held smoothies/juices. (Depending on what it is that you give the shopkeeper)
-Letting you display all the handheld items in your house as something other that a boring brown bags.
-Having the same ammount of room on house second floors with the same layout. (And you could only build the second floor rooms once that room exists in the first floor. Like, you can only build the room on the left on the second floor once the room on the left of the first floor has been completely expanded. Finaly I could make an acurate representation of my actual house!
-Bring back spirits in any shape, way or form!
-Scarves and backpacks

Like the vacation idea!

LOVE the idea for move species. I MEAN IT! WHERE'S MY DAMN PLATYPUS?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Froda]

I definitely feel like as mayor, you should be able to evict villagers/choose where they live more easily than plot resetting.

 

[alitwick]

I wish there was a 3DS application to store patterns, furniture, clothes and maybe even villagers (questionable). Kinda like Pokemon Bank.

Also wish they could add a Holi Festival day. We're a globalized world, god dammit!

 

[Alette]

~ Larger town - More PWP slots, more villagers.
~ Villager housing plots - Be able to choose where your villagers move. Isabelle tells you that someone wants to come to live in the town and you tell her where they can live, or if they're not allowed to move in
~ More control over where PWP's go - The bridge CAN fit there, Isabelle!
~ Choose your native fruit
~ Choose your skin colour
~ Choose the colour of the train station and town hall
~ More design slots/designs don't change when you swap them out
~ Choose which side of Main Street you want the Museum to be located on
~ You decide opening times for stores (within a 12 hour period so that they can't be open all day)
~ Separate tool slots
~ Every separate piece of storage furniture has a separate storage - Your retro fridge has 18 draws, and your office locker has another 18 draws.
~ Balloon furniture is banished forever never to be seen again
~ Garden extension for your house
~ Able to change your face at Shampoodle's
~ Able to use QR designs on signboards

 

[PopteenPrincess]

i know i already commented but here's a general list:
-better pinging system. as in i don't have to stand there for three whole seconds to get them to notice me.
-villagers say where they freaking are on the note on their house
-cycled villagers don't appear on main street it's ugly. have another system for it jfc
-yOU DONT HAVE TO CYCLE SIXTEEN
-STOP VILLAGERS FROM MOVING IN BOXES
-campers erryday maybe subsides on the weekend and when you have ten villagers
-more flower colors and varieties
-more bushes
-more items and more inventory space
-less space in squares so we can fit more **** in the freaking town
-isabelle doesn't go on a f**king tangent whenever we want to place something
-we can do mayor work on event days. i'm the mayor. not isabelle.
-unlimited pwps. why is there even a limit it's so STUPID
-you're allowed to have more than 10 villagers, but after you have 9 villagers you can only move in from the campsite and other towns.
-please keep fish and bugs out of a villager's home
-more villager requests
-we can request stuff from villagers and invite them over to our houses
-you don't slow the hell down whenever you walk through a 1 square area
-more selections on brewsters menu
-WHY IS VIOLENT EVEN A BAD WORD
-the <3 emote
-more custom customization of everything
-we can have transparency when we make patterns and clothing
-being able to put bells and stuff on patterns on the ground
-weeding day. just. weeding day. i don't even think i have to elaborate smfh leif
-noooOOO UNORDERABLES UNLESS EVERYONE CAN GET THEM THROUGH HARD WORK AND EVENTS
-more freaking space in your house. maybe three stories. maybe a god damn roof and backyard just MORE SPACE
-V I L L A G E R D I A L O G U E
-you can leave longer messages and like, notes on the ground for people to read in dream towns. that would be rad. js.
-every single emotion that the villagers can do.

damn. just. damn

 

[Kestheba]

Your item catalog should be a part of your inventory the way the fish/bug catalog is, so you can check it wherever you are instead of needing to go to the shop.

You should be able to design clothing anywhere, not just at the Able Sisters.

Dialog trees need to be cut down massively- for example, Porter asking you a series of dumb questions.. do you want a faraway town? do you want best friends or all friends? It should just be one box that pops up and you tick all the options you want in one go, and the game should remember your selections for next time to.

Bat villagers. :3 And more personality types.

Edit: oh.. and the QR designs should be able to support transparency and sliders to adjust the length of skirts and sleeves.

- - - Post Merge - - -

-more things to grow, like pumpkins or grapes or strawberries, and maybe some other vegetables like squash or cucumbers. Just more things to grow.

-A lot bigger towns.

-More personalities, like the personalities on this list: https://www.personalitypage.com/high-level.html

-bigger towns with more villagers

-more pwps, and bigger ones too. It'd be cool to see a BIG Eiffel Tower that's to scale to your player, and you can take an elevator to go to the top and look around!

-more places to go. Places like a ski lodge that's winter all year round. You can have snowball fights and snowman building contests.

-In the winter the ponds and rivers would freeze so you can go ice skating! The only way you can fish though is going ice fishing with a special fishing pole

-More specices, like walrus, seal, bat, ladybug, lizard, dragon (not just modified villagers like drago), humans that actually live in your town besides the 4 players you can make.

-Fish tanks. Really big fish tanks. You could have a special visitor in your town make a fish tank for you in your house that can be any shape or size.


-vending machines that can actually work if you put bells in them and press certain buttons on your 3ds to get a different thing

-more holidays. Idont care of theyre made up or based off actual events, I just want more things to happen.-

-path pwps. you can lay out paths with isabelle that can be cobblestone, brick, or a customized type.

-bikes that you can ride on.

-more control over where villagers live. apartment complexes would be cool too.

I think that's it... I'll post more if i come up with any.

You have some really great ideas. They should hire you for the next game.

 

[Atlas]

Three Big Things:
-Normal shoes don't deteriorate grass. After buying enough shoes from Kicks he'll give you a special pair that tears up grass when you run with them on - they'd eventually wear out into cleats or something and you could only buy one pair a day. Grass torn up is gone permanently unless you use some sort of item from Lief's to regrow grass and spread it on selected areas. These shoes would not work with gates open.

-Once you're good enough friends with a Villager you can use an item/chat option that makes them no longer request to move(unless you undo this action through a different method).

-A squirrel or a beaver or some sort of animal that hoards things could run an item storage facility. It couldn't be accessed in other towns and is only available through them and you'd have to purchase extra storage spaces or something but it would allow for a lot more storage than the current system does.


I have a lot of expansion ideas for Animal Crossing but those are the elements about New Leaf that really hinder my enjoyment of the game.

 

[Ettienne]

Um...

• Grass seeds available in the gardening shop.
• Choose villager plots/eviction/house arrest (can never move).
• Patterns saved with Mable remain in your town.
• Everything is orderable.
• Nook has a catalog of exterior options you've bought. Can reorder, but only feature per day.
• Give Digby and Isabelle and stool and chair respectively.

That's really it, and only if I'm being really picky.

 

[Ami Mercury]

Remove Grass wearing down.
Add Platypus villagers
Have 16 villagers
More Lions
Platypus villagers
Bat villagers
More customizations
PLATYPUS VILLAGERS!
Able to choose all your villagers more easily. As Mayor I should be able to kick out anyone I want!
Pick where there plots go
DAMN PLATYPUS VILLAGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lnvaderZlM]

Let's see...

• More personalities.
• More variations between animals that are the same personality. It would be awesome if every villager had their own unique quirks, but that'd probably be a bit too much work. Maybe just a sub-personality? Like, smug/romantic, smug/hipster, lazy/otaku, lazy/romantic, etc. And maybe randomize it upon the villager moving in, so that if you had, say, two Marshals, one could be smug/romantic and the other could be smug/hipster. If that makes any sense lol.
• A "hardcore" mode, so to speak, where you have to eat every day to survive, and make weekly payments on your house lol.
• A scaled down version of Animal Crossing Plaza, where we can go to meet a bunch of different villagers. There're over 300 in the game, yet we only ever have 10 at a time, with the opportunity to meet only one more every day...
• Villagers make more of an effort to let you know when they're moving out. "I didn't get a chance to tell you..." PFFT, MY BUTT! Why not tell Isabelle to let me know that you're thinking about leaving, then she can tell me on the start-up screen?
• More interaction between villagers. I looove when the villagers talk to each other lol.
• More interactions with special characters. Especially Isabelle! She was so awesome in the beginning of the game, but later on, she just sorta faded away. I wanna see her house! And see if she still has the shell I gave her...
• A villager based on a doge. Heh, heh. Doge.
• Moppina.

 

[rynnyvinny]

-bigger storage space
-the ability to freely choose your characters skin color at the beginning of the game
-be able to display other people's designs in your able sisters (they could easily replace the "someone from anytown" with the proper credits to the design maker)
-villager-to-villager conversations are more common and easier to trigger by pushing the villagers towards eachother
-more dialog! its mind-numbing having 3 normal villagers all say the same thing over and over and over again

 

[cats_toy]

*For sure more storage space
*Minimize the number of cheap fish you catch on the island. (Seabass, squid, puffer fish, etc...)
*NO VILLAGERS ON THE BEACH! When I'm fishing, diving or just hanging out, it's annoying as hell to have a villager getting in my way.
*If I can see the inside of my house from different angles, then why can't I do this outside? I would like to see different views of my town. There are many times I would like to look to the left or right side of where I'm standing but this isn't possible. This option would be helpful when placing PWP as well.
*The option while talking with a villager or visiting their home you could offer them a gift. Villagers can give us presents, why can't we do the same?

 

[lumineerin]

*For sure more storage space
*Minimize the number of cheap fish you catch on the island. (Seabass, squid, puffer fish, etc...)
*NO VILLAGERS ON THE BEACH! When I'm fishing, diving or just hanging out, it's annoying as hell to have a villager getting in my way.
*If I can see the inside of my house from different angles, then why can't I do this outside? I would like to see different views of my town. There are many times I would like to look to the left or right side of where I'm standing but this isn't possible. This option would be helpful when placing PWP as well.
*The option while talking with a villager or visiting their home you could offer them a gift. Villagers can give us presents, why can't we do the same?

I hate when villagers are on the beach! There have been way too many times when I have been looking for someone, and I can't find them- until I look on the beach! I think the worst was when I had to find Monique and I spent forever looking for her; I finally found her on my private beach, which was really annoying because I didn't even know villagers could go there! It just took waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to long for me to find her, and even though nobody else has been found on the private island, it still annoys me when villagers are on the beach!

 

[Rhuenkun]

- Different skin color choices. (Possible addition to Rover's beginning conversation or Shampoodle's Feature)
- Longer Hair
- Easier PWP Placement System / Less Picky Placement (For starters: Let us place PWPs by the Event Plaza)
- Being able to play as villager / Redecorate their houses (Maybe once you reach maximum friendship, you get the option in loading screen to play as them. In the new Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, this is a thing!)
- Bigger villager limit (I would even be satisfied with 2-3 more spots!)
- A better solution to grasswear
- Country-exclusive villagers (Hehe... I think having Country-exclusive DLC makes the economy lively. Plus, each country will have a cool and unique villager!)
- Customizable Bottoms
- Island trips with villagers (Computers/bots on island tours)

 

[Ami Mercury]

- Country-exclusive villagers

NO!!

 

[aemohescuro]

Some ideas I'd like...

-Being able to chose a gender-neutral option, so I don't have to sit through the whole "But that's a GIRL'S/GUY'S outfit" or the "That's from our MEN/WOMEN'S clothing selection, but I GUESS you could pull it off...maybe..."
It's really annoying and disrespectful, and I'd just rather have the option to avoid it completely but keep it there for people who like it.
-Being able to change your sex with an item or something, maybe even turn into an animal via Bill's Teleporter Machine from Pokemon
-Villagers can have sleeves if they want
-More guy's hair
-More wigs, especially a bunch of ones with braids and pigtails and ponytails
-Transparency option, so we can have transparent sleeves and such w/o having to set one of our valuable colors as a skin tone
-Picking skin tone
-A few gender neutral personalities, I know they kind of did this with villagers like Diane but people consider it misgendering more often than they think it to be gender-neutral or not. I'd especially like this so I can have some villagers to dress femme or andre.
-Ability to preview your refurbishing, I hate having to wait thirty minutes to decide if I hate what I've refurbished or not
-Allow more items to be refurbished and allow for more colors, ESPECIALLY with pastels or dark purples/greens/oranges
-Have random not-yours villagers come to your town and hang out in town/the coffee shop/club tortimer
-More space, maybe some islands to the south or east/west of your town where you could place your secondary homes and with enough space to add orchards. Get more islands by building them yourself.
-I found the 30 pwp limit to be really terrible, I'd bump it up to 100 or so. And definitely add more styles of pwp, it feels really bland whenever you see the same style towns repeated over and over in the dream worlds.
-Bushes from the start of the game, PLEASE. And sell more bushes and maybe exclusive bush types later on.
-Trees you can only get from the island. I don't mean like fruit or palm trees, I mean trees like weeping willows.
-Sell more that one tree a day ffs. I don't want to spend 15+ days re-getting trees because I didn't like how they lined up!
-Put bushes next to ponds and cliffs, or at least be able to reform them slightly so things don't look uneven. I plan my town perfectly, and then bushes die. Also, be able to move bushes and trees closer to houses.
-Have a town editing mode like in harvest moon anb where you can literally pick up houses/pwps and re-align them. Except hopefully not as clunky, lol. Have it work for paths, too.
-Have little farms you can do! Sell crops for the stalk market that way, instead of accidentally over-sleeping on Sundays and not getting to participate.
-Being able to cook food would be gr8.
-Design more clothes, especially shoes and socks. Be able to take off the night clothes in dream worlds and just wear your underclothes, I hate those pajamas. Keep wigs on, too. Maybe on occasion you receive a present in the mail with an item from a dream town.
-More buildings around town and in main street, like a bakery or a library or a swimming pool. Maybe a radio station! Cuter swimsuits. And definitely a lot more part-time jobs.
-Different biome types for your town, like desert or forest or tropics or something. And be able to change it if you want.
-More holidays
-Rugs alongside carpets
-Villagers have a "best friend" system with other villagers, so their best friend can ask them to stay while you're away
-I'd like some more animal types, like turtle or dragon or spider or butterfly. Some more tiger villagers would be nice, too.
-An aqua city, volcano city, desert city, ice city, + club tortimer would all be really nice, and you can only get certain set items from there.

 

[Ami Mercury]

Some ideas I'd like...

-Being able to chose a gender-neutral option, so I don't have to sit through the whole "But that's a GIRL'S/GUY'S outfit" or the "That's from our MEN/WOMEN'S clothing selection, but I GUESS you could pull it off...maybe..."
It's really annoying and disrespectful, and I'd just rather have the option to avoid it completely but keep it there for people who like it.
-Being able to change your sex with an item or something, maybe even turn into an animal via Bill's Teleporter Machine from Pokemon
-Villagers can have sleeves if they want
-More guy's hair
-More wigs, especially a bunch of ones with braids and pigtails and ponytails
-Transparency option, so we can have transparent sleeves and such w/o having to set one of our valuable colors as a skin tone
-Picking skin tone
-A few gender neutral personalities, I know they kind of did this with villagers like Diane but people consider it misgendering more often than they think it to be gender-neutral or not. I'd especially like this so I can have some villagers to dress femme or andre.
-Ability to preview your refurbishing, I hate having to wait thirty minutes to decide if I hate what I've refurbished or not
-Allow more items to be refurbished and allow for more colors, ESPECIALLY with pastels or dark purples/greens/oranges
-Have random not-yours villagers come to your town and hang out in town/the coffee shop/club tortimer
-More space, maybe some islands to the south or east/west of your town where you could place your secondary homes and with enough space to add orchards. Get more islands by building them yourself.
-I found the 30 pwp limit to be really terrible, I'd bump it up to 100 or so. And definitely add more styles of pwp, it feels really bland whenever you see the same style towns repeated over and over in the dream worlds.
-Bushes from the start of the game, PLEASE. And sell more bushes and maybe exclusive bush types later on.
-Trees you can only get from the island. I don't mean like fruit or palm trees, I mean trees like weeping willows.
-Sell more that one tree a day ffs. I don't want to spend 15+ days re-getting trees because I didn't like how they lined up!
-Put bushes next to ponds and cliffs, or at least be able to reform them slightly so things don't look uneven. I plan my town perfectly, and then bushes die. Also, be able to move bushes and trees closer to houses.
-Have a town editing mode like in harvest moon anb where you can literally pick up houses/pwps and re-align them. Except hopefully not as clunky, lol. Have it work for paths, too.
-Have little farms you can do! Sell crops for the stalk market that way, instead of accidentally over-sleeping on Sundays and not getting to participate.
-Being able to cook food would be gr8.
-Design more clothes, especially shoes and socks. Be able to take off the night clothes in dream worlds and just wear your underclothes, I hate those pajamas. Keep wigs on, too. Maybe on occasion you receive a present in the mail with an item from a dream town.
-More buildings around town and in main street, like a bakery or a library or a swimming pool. Maybe a radio station! Cuter swimsuits. And definitely a lot more part-time jobs.
-Different biome types for your town, like desert or forest or tropics or something. And be able to change it if you want.
-More holidays
-Rugs alongside carpets
-Villagers have a "best friend" system with other villagers, so their best friend can ask them to stay while you're away
-I'd like some more animal types, like turtle or dragon or spider or butterfly. Some more tiger villagers would be nice, too.
-An aqua city, volcano city, desert city, ice city, + club tortimer would all be really nice, and you can only get certain set items from there.

Drago is a dragon. He may use the alligator model, but is specially designed to be a dragon.

 

[ninjavenus]

I agree wholeheartedly with a lot of the ideas here, so in an attempt not to repeat anything...

• Is there anyone who's supposed to occupy the empty seat near Isabelle at the front desk? I would make Digby sit there and give Isabelle a chair. ;_;

• Also, dessert options for Brewster's cafe.

 

[radical6]

-better skin tones. i dont want to tan to get darker skin smh
-i want to customize skirts. i want qr codes for skirts and jeans. i want qr codes for hair. i want to at least be able to customize shoes, socks and hats.
-more conversations... its boring hearing the same thing everyday
-tbh im uncomfortable with pretty much any game that forces me to pick a gender but i dont see the point of gender in the game. the only thing it changes is the background color of your card. other than that, you can freely dress in whatever and unlock the hairstyles so.
-more pwps
-i want more furniture..its kind of hard to make anything look good if it isnt in a set
-more wallpaper/floor please oh my god. its so annoying theres barely any good ones
-let us customize a whole wall. repeating patterns are ehhh. it would be cool if we could make a pro wallpaper or something lol
-more eye colors!!!

 

[Lullaboid]

i agree very strongly that there are big problems with lack of control over placement of things/only one skin color/gender-related dialogue but some other things:

-I think towns should have more innate variety. You should be able to choose whether a village has snow and mountains, or is more tropical with a beach, or is a forest, or a desert, etc

-No more limit to how many bushes and trees can be placed next to each other, please. I think we can handle it without trapping ourselves.

-More variety in overall theme choices. I'm getting sick of having a fairy tale station/town hall in every town because there are only three options and I dislike the other two.

-No more rocks, or the ability to move them

-The ability to build your town's map, or at least select different parts to fit together.

-Less emphasis on patience and going with the flow in general. I understand this aspect of animal crossing has been around since the first game, but it frankly conflicts entirely with how most games are played and it frustrates most players.

-No more grass wear, or at the very least a natural path system that makes any sense whatsoever