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What do you think makes a town "interesting"?

For me I like a town that makes the best out every inch of their town and makes it fun to explore, I also like it when a town feels big (ik they're all the same size) because of all the little things they designed
I strongly agree with this.
And if your going to do a resort themed town I would recommend Keaton xD
 
In addition to what everybody else said, I love it when they leave you clothes and fun things to putter around with like throwing beans, coffee, cake, etc. I loved it when Hitokui let you dress up as a policeman, because it made investigating all the shady dealings more scary. I'm trying to do that sort of thing with my rainy dream town because I left a bunch of umbrellas and a frog outfit around my town tree.

Speaking of trees, I'm also super stoked when people manage to maximize space but still have a generous amount of trees everywhere. Too many people put a million patterns on the ground and chop down all their trees to make space.
 
When I am in a dream town, I go straight for the houses. I stop to admire the scenery where appreciation is due, but it's all on the way to the player houses. I am mostly interested in room themes and how people decided to decorate and customize.
I also take a second the go through the map and check out their villagers. I don't usually talk to them though unless it's one I really like. If it's an over-the-top village, I am much more thorough, and I enjoy each little thing a lot more.
I don't personally like pattern clutter on the town square though. It's just messy.
 
I just like to see lots of flowers and PWPs :) I'm not really picky as far as symmetry or a specific theme or anything like that. I just like to walk around a pretty town :D
 
landscaping is prbly my favourite element. I love towns with well arranged flowers, trees, etc. but I prefer a more natural~ look, something a little bit messy but still well maintained. how paths, PWPs, etc. are arranged and incorporated into the design of the town too.

also house interiors. I looooove a well decorated house, especially one where the rooms aren't just full of one specific set. those feel too model home-ish to me. I prefer ones that mix and match items but still look uniformed.


I hate when there's too many paths and they're not used properly. paths are tricky and I feel like a lot of people download a bunch of popular ones and slap them down without really putting any thought into it and that looks so bad.
 
haha well for me, checkered blue paths lol,Bambo with chow in your town<3 my favoritye villager.In every animal crossing game the town guards gave me the creeps at times?then they would make me happy?animal crossing has to many things to discover,any animal corssing game, to many to list.And im maybe just dont have much of them lol goodluck with more respondss though.
some things i just discoeverd are You can jump off the cliff at the beach while wearing a wetsuit, my friiend said You can jump off the cliff at the beach while wearing a wetsuit,When you convince a villager to move into your town from another town, they're exterior housing from their old town will be the same exterior that they'll have in your town.Hope this helped i thought they were all interesting 0-0.
 
This is varied for me.
1) First and foremost, if I wake up and see weeds and trees with the occasional flower here and there; I am off back to bed.
2) I enjoy the natural look with moss growing on stone/brick paths, mud paths, with bushes, trees and bamboo seemingly growing wild yet you can see that a lot of planning went into the town.
3) I also like towns with a "modern look" with well thought out and well placed paths, public works and greenery.
4) I enjoy themes and ALWAYS visit the houses if I like the outside.
5) I don't mind the villagers and will mainly talk to the interesting looking ones.
 
I like themed towns and if a town has something amazing that I've never seen before, then I definitely love it!
 
I like towns with a special kind of theme and all the cute towns with a nice path, flower patterns and bushes. When it's well organized, I can walk through the town for ages and enjoy it a lot! I don't talk to the villagers or anything, however, it's funny to see where their houses stand. Houses that have awesome furniture and are well decorated, are nice. :)
 
I mostly love visiting towns that look like the owner has put a lot of effort into it! Even if it's still a WIP, I love looking at what's been done and appreciating how much time must have gone into it!
I especially love towns that are unbelievably detailed! The sort of towns that make me really take my time wandering around, trying not to miss anything! :blush:
 
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Precision to detail; paths, flowers, villagers, furniture in the home; I love when there's a great theme in a town and where there's lots to do. I'm lazy with my town so I like to visit towns that put effort in XD
 
Everyone has different tastes of course… but I won't even visit a scary horror town. I know a lot of people are impressed with Aika, but I just don't like scary/icky stuff.

I know a lot of people like strong themes with "clever ideas"… but I mostly keep going back to a dream town if it's very well designed and pleasing looking. Ones where there is a very beautiful use of trees, bushes, paths and flowers and peps.

Some examples where I find the exteriors to be particularly well designed and beautiful:
North (7900-3285-6095), Chibiton 4600-2805-3661, さにれに 3400 - 0431 - 3656, Royall - 6500 - 3304 - 9459 , Cit?lune - 4800-2245-2005, Lilane 6400-2587-0340, Shamrock 7500 2364 9142

I also like towns with clever use of interior furniture, etc, to create a neat themed room. Shamrock 7500 2364 9142 and Spa Town 3900-0129-0481 has a lot of really neat houses for example.

I've seen some towns with very creative themes, like trying to theme the whole town after a particular movie or series of movies… and I visit them and think, "yes, that's clever"… but if it's not actually really well designed throughout the town I find myself feeling disappointed at the lack of follow through or the lost potential of what could have been "really cool". So more often I guess I like the towns with a more general theme (like North) which is done very well than a really clever theme (movie town) which is not fully realized.
So a "blue town" or a "pale" which is very well done I would probably like a lot. :)

I like it when there is things arranged around PWPs in a pleasing way like bushes, trees or flowers. When people think about creating a garden that looks like a garden a town would have with thoughtfully placed bushes, etc…
I like it when the PWPs and gardens, etc, are placed in ways that takes a natural advantage of the landscape of their town, like putting something near a beach cliff because it fits the theme and is pretty… or near a waterfall, etc.

Like some others have said I love it when the season of year, the time of day, and the weather is all paid attention to if possible when the dream is created. Like Citalune being in winter is perfect. It's not always possible or reasonable to do this and it can be fun to visit a town at different times of day and seasons and see how they updated it for those seasons, too. But it's nice when it's done consciously.

on the exterior of the town, when people just kinda place QR tiles wherever because they fit a theme or have their favorite character on them… but they don't match the other QR tiles or how the town looks overall? I find that kinda garish.

Also if the paths are not well placed and I find myself not able to get where I want to go organically because paths are poorly placed and trees and bushes block my way, etc, I get frustrated.

All the flowers don't have to be the same color, but I like when a color scheme is thought of at least in some areas. Like one area can have blue, purple and white flowers… another could have pink and yellow flowers. But sometimes people put flower colors which are too contrasting or garish next to each other or just kinda willy nilly and I don't care for it. Sugardew 6400-3072-1629 is a good example of one that has many colors and species of of flowers mixed but they are thoughtfully placed so that they look pretty together. North (7900-3285-6095, white, purple and blue) and Royall - 6500 - 3304 - 9459 (pink and white) are more limited in color palette, but also very beautiful. I guess I mean, think about how the colors go together. :)

Like some others have said, I like towns with some cozy places to sit or a little code grove of trees with a PWP. When most of the town is just QR path code, no grass still showing… or there aren't very many trees, I find myself turned off.

If the exterior of the town (paths, pwps, tree,s flowers, etc…) is not well designed, I seldom take the time to even visit the inside of the houses unless someone specifically said they were cool.

If I do make it inside the houses, I like seeing the furniture used in interesting or beautiful ways, not just a whole set of matched furniture with nothing else. I wish I was more clever with this myself, but I know when I visit dream towns with particularly nice houses, I'm always impressed by someone who mixes different furniture sets in a beautiful way or has things customized in a good way.

I don't typically visit the inside of villager houses or the museum unless I'm interested in a particular thing. In fact if I go in one of the larger resident/mayor houses and am not impressed I won't visit any of the other ones.
 
what makes a town more appealing for me from the get go is paths. definitely. even dirt paths, but i need to see an actual path in some shape or form for me to automatically think, "i'm going to be here for longer than 5m enjoying the scenery". bushes don't matter, flowers and trees are nice, pwps are pretty much a big deal for me. i like to see where people place certain pwps and how creatively they do it. if there is a town with no pwps and still severly WIP i'll be super bored.

oh and variety. ultimately i love seeing different town maps and seeing what people do with them! i'm a big believer in not how good your town map is but how good you make any town map!
 
I'm actually not sure, lol! I think that the house doesn't matter for an interesting TOWN, and I like meeting new villagers by not looks but other stuff, and I guess PWPs, filled up space but still room and not totally barren, cool looking stuff, yeah. And for people who don't like paths and stuff I just started them so don't see me yet.
 
I tend to like to stay in towns that look put together. Some people decorate and they have nice towns, but I'm very OCD and like things to be neat, so decorated towns that are decorated sloppily bother me. My town is as precise with things as I possibly can be. For me it's also little things. I like when people leave me treats by the plaza or around town to eat or play with, or if they have really interesting houses that aren't just crowded full of junk. Also PWP placement for me I don't like it when people just shove as many PWPs in their town as possible so you have like a bench crammed up really close to like a windmill. I liked to spread mine out and give them purpose (but again the OCD clutter thing). That's just me though. In real life I'm kind of messy cause I'm lazy, but I'm not a total slob, but in AC I'm a total perfectionist neat freak. I like things to be orderly and symmetrical as much as humanly possible. I like to see people be creative and use their imagination. I love seeing areas that they themselves have just completely decorated. But mostly that's because my town is very cramped and I don't have a big open space to do something like that cause of the way villager houses are.
 
Towns with good upkeep. No weeds. I don't like patterns scattered all over the place. Too square for me, I'd rather have the naturalness of it all instead. Doesn't have to have a specific theme. Awesome villagers are a plus. :)
 
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