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What "Tier" is Your Town?

Zebetite said:
40, but then I've just rolled with who I've received. There are many things I've never understood about the community around this game, and villager tiers/trading is one of them. Tiers sort of matter in other games where there's gameplay differences, but here they're all skins for the same handful of personality types. I can't see the point.
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even so, you react differently to an ugly lazy villager than you would to a cute one. its basic human nature. we cant help it. thus, the tier system exists, based on what people deem as cute.
 
Zebetite said:
40, but then I've just rolled with who I've received. There are many things I've never understood about the community around this game, and villager tiers/trading is one of them. Tiers sort of matter in other games where there's gameplay differences, but here they're all skins for the same handful of personality types. I can't see the point.
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That's exactly the point I was trying to get to. The game was just a little for fun thing, since I thought my huge number was pretty funny, but I really wanted to open discussion on the tiers. I was really wondering how much value others place on them.
 
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And yet everyone's taste is different and villager appearance has zero impact on gameplay whatsoever. I'm not begrudging the concept, I just don't get it personally.

Kind of like how I don't understand how the forum-specific bells have any value, but hey, if people want to give me stuff for them that's fine by me :p
 
Kid Cat: 1
Rosie: 1
Bob: 2
Punchy: 2
Mitzi: 2
Olivia: 3
Tangy: 3
Kabuki: 3
Moe: 4
Kitty: 5

My villagers are somewhat evenly spread out, though they lean toward the higher tiers on average.
 
All of mine are tier 5, except for one, who is tier 3. I'm currently at 9 villagers, so my total is 43. I like my villagers and don't care about tiers. :)

In case you're curious, I have Benedict, Graham, Chow, Baabara, Alice, Kabuki (he's the tier 3), Deena, Pierce, and Greta.
 
AmarilloVerde said:
That's exactly the point I was trying to get to. The game was just a little for fun thing, since I thought my huge number was pretty funny, but I really wanted to open discussion on the tiers. I was really wondering how much value others place on them.
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I think this was a really good idea for a thread actually! I personally do have a preference in terms of what my villagers look like, but they're pretty much all "tier 5" here.

I posted this on another thread a second ago, but I think the responses to your thread really illustrate the point I was trying to make. People actually get really competitive about how "high tier" their town is (as you can see from responses here that say a town is good or bad based on tiers). I feel like this competition is the main appeal, and it's something that is more prominent with younger, say 10-16 year old players. Because honestly, you can't tell me that a random 12 year old girl would be likely to find a brown octopus one of the best out of 300 cute animals. But it brings a competitive aspect into a game that by nature is the exact opposite of competitive. Super interesting though.
 
ams said:
I think this was a really good idea for a thread actually! I personally do have a preference in terms of what my villagers look like, but they're pretty much all "tier 5" here.

I posted this on another thread a second ago, but I think the responses to your thread really illustrate the point I was trying to make. People actually get really competitive about how "high tier" their town is (as you can see from responses here that say a town is good or bad based on tiers). I feel like this competition is the main appeal, and it's something that is more prominent with younger, say 10-16 year old players. Because honestly, you can't tell me that a random 12 year old girl would be likely to find a brown octopus one of the best out of 300 cute animals. But it brings a competitive aspect into a game that by nature is the exact opposite of competitive. Super interesting though.
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I guess people can find a way to make a competition out of anything! I was worried people would take what I said the wrong way and think I meant that lower tier villagers are "bad", when that's the opposite of what I think. It almost gives me a little more charm to know that they aren't in every single town like some higher tier villagers are.

I don't know how the tier system came to be, but I've never really understood it.
 
I have Fang, Marshal, Annalisa, Papi, Whitney, Static, Kyle, Gruff, Rory, and Tangy. So, probably so-so.

1 + 1 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 4 + 3 + 5 + 5 + 3 = 31

So I guess I have, like I predicted, a pretty so-so tier. I'm planning on getting Papi, Annalisa, Gruff and Rory out, though. It's a work in progress.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Oh, and as for why the tiers exist, I'd say it's just so people can price what they sell the same as everyone else. Every villager, in theory, pops up just as much as the rest of them. It starts an economy around villager trade, and while that might put a negative tone on it, it's really, in the end, just so people can get the villagers they want.

In essence, it's just basic economics: supply and demand.

Think of it like this: lots of people have purebred dogs and paid much more for them. It's harder to sell a mutt for the price of a purebred, because more people want purebreds. But there's not exactly more mutts than purebreds, it's just that more people want a purebred than a mutt.

It also guarantees that you won't pass off an extremely popular villager on accident when you've been dying to find one of the same popularity villagers, but never have had enough to swipe it. In the end, it's to keep a balance of who you can (theoretically) receive for who you're giving.
 
Beau: 1
Elmer: 5
Marcie: 5
Croque: 5
Maple: 2
Portia: 5
Punchy: 2
Merry: 4 (this surprised me tbh)
Sylvia: 5
Lolly: 1

35
 
My current town:
Colton: 4
Truffles: 5
Rasher: 5
Pancetti: 5
Yuka: 5
Melba: 5 ;_;
Nan: 5
Mott: 5
Shari: 5
My last move-out was Alfonso, who is also 5.
Total/Average: 49/4.9 including Alfonso. 44/4.88888 -> 4.9 (rounded) without him.
I WIN :D
Erik: 2
Flurry: 2
Coco: 2
Rolf: 3
Shep: 4
Jeremiah: 4
Cesar: 5
Drake: 5
Flip: 5
Gruff: 5
Sheldon: 5
 
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Rocco = 5
Stinky = 5
Caroline = 5 (what?!)
Rasher = 5
Moe = 4
Fuchsia = 4
Broffina = 5
Pekoe = 3
Shep = 4
Dizzy = 5

45.... Oh my
 
Melba is the cutest koala in Animal Crossing.
She has been here since Dobutsu No mori
She has a soft color pallete, such as most the villagers in Tier One.
Her personality is normal, which means she is sweet, and cares about you.
Her eyes are way better than Beau's, and other of the popular villagers, in fact, at least she has eyes unlike Stitches.
She is overall an underrated villager.
Preach.
 
Rosie :) said:
Melba is the cutest koala in Animal Crossing.
She has been here since Dobutsu No mori
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According to the Wikis, she first appeared in Wild World, and she had a counterpart, Huggy, who only appeared in GC/64 Animal Crossings

lol we're getting so offtopic.
 
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Rosie (1), Merengue (1), Julian (2), Genji (2), Big Top (5), Baabara (5), Peaches (5), Leonardo (5), Annalise (5)

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